Archive for December, 2007

end of year rant

Monday, December 31st, 2007

A friend of mine, Kevin Merritt, blogged recently that folks should blog about the startups they like to help them out.  In this case, I'm going to blog about things that are driving me nuts, batty, bonkers or just plain up a wall.  I want to get these things off ...

the future of social net advertising: making fun of emarketer

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Cross post: Full post over at the Lookery corp blog here. Summary: eMarketer came out with some essentially nutty projections for the future of social net advertising.  As much as I wish and I hope eMarketer is right given my involvement with Lookery and the world market for that advertising grows ...

seattle 2.0 latest startup rankings released

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

Marcelo Calbucci runs Seattle 2.0 a blog that has quickly emerged as the running index of Seattle 2.0 web startups. Marcelo's site is the first comprehensive list of Seattle based-startups and he deserves a lot of credit for his most watched creation: the Seattle Startup Index. If you've ...

facebook bites the pr bullet on beacon, but it lives on because in the end users don’t appear to be bothered

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Whether his words or his team's, Zuckerberg eats some crow today via the corporate facebook blog and apologizes for essentially some poor product decisions in Beacon. Responding to some critics, Facebook will offer a global opt-out for Beacon. As I posted previously, Beacon already offered a ...

here comes another bubble

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Funniest video ever (at least to startup tech geeks). Here Comes Another Bubble Set to the tune of Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "here comes another bubble", url: "http://www.sawickipedia.com/blog/2007/12/04/here-comes-another-bubble/" });