A historical collection of our writing.
Advertising used to be a fairly simple affair for many smaller businesses. Simple because the choices that had to be made were generally limited, occurred infrequently and were not based on a lot of data. For instance, a business owner would decide once a year how big a listing to have in the […] Read more
Fascinating chart from Business Week showing what people are doing online:They don’t describe the chart as “social media” – but looking at the online actions listed (creators, critics, collectors, joiners, spectators, inactives) seem to be a decent representation of activities associated with new […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
Fred WilsonWe actually don’t need to introduce Albert Wenger to many of you who are involved with Union Square Ventures on a regular basis. Albert was the President of del.icio.us and is on the Board of Etsy. He’s been at most, if not all, of our Sessions Events and Annual Meetings. Most importantly, he’s […] Read more
I found some great thoughts at elearnspace:Restructuring Education Love this quote by Clay Shirky: “The hallmark of revolution is that the goals of the revolutionaries cannot be contained by the institutional structure of the society they live in. As a result, either the revolutionaries are put […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
Well, this has probably already been the case for years, but in the past two weeks:*Openads, the “free, open source ad server,” announced a $5mm funding, in part to become an open advertising platform. Their core products, Openads 2.o (formerly phpAdsNew) and Openads 2.3, are licensed open source […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
Brad BurnhamLast fall when we started looking seriously at personal financial services, we realized something important about that kind of personal productivity application and the web. When you move word processing from the desktop to the web not much happens. Writely (now Google) is still a functional […] Read more
