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Audience Management

What is Audience Management? It's the ability to track your audience and customers, know who they are, what they like, how they behave, etc. Done right, it can allow a business to improve its relationship with its customers and potential [...]  Read more

del.icio.us

I didn't plan on posting anything about Union Square Ventures' most recent investment, del.icio.us. The founder, Joshua Schachter, posted twice to his list about the investment and I figure that is pretty much the whole story. If you want the [...]  Read more

Indeed

Last year, when Brad and I were on the road raising our fund, we used to talk a lot about web services that should exist but don’t. One of Brad’s favorites was “paid job search.” Brad would say that job [...]  Read more

Impact Media

For the past 50 years, the media equation has most often been solved for the largest audience.That is changing and its happening pretty quickly, brought on largely by digital media.I think the media equation is going to get solved for [...]  Read more

Downturns

The morning paper this morning is not a pretty picture. New Orleans is flooded. Large swaths of the southeast are down and out. Energy prices are spiking. The war in Iraq shows no sign of ending anytime soon. Interest rates [...]  Read more

Wikis

Some things take longer than others for me. I was quick to grok the blogging thing, reading them, writing them, etc. I was pretty quick to grok the podcasting and vlogging things too. RSS made sense to me immediately. But [...]  Read more