Congratulations to TechCrunch
TechCrunch is being acquired by AOL . I’m sure you picked up something about this in your reading today… I met Mike many years ago when he started TechCrunch and it was evident that his particular genius was identifying a segment of the media ecosystem that was ripe for disruption. His single minded focus and [...]
Kindle for the Web
This is pretty cool, a Kindle app that can be embedded (along with content).
Quora as Content
Mike Arrington posted an interesting account of a meeting of investors that he dropped in on and then artfully avoided naming names. So I see this in Techmeme but what really catches my attention is a question posed on Quora that attempts to uncover who was there… this is the first time that I’ve seen [...]
Joining Get Satisfaction
I recently joined Get Satisfaction as VP Product Marketing following the successful completion of a $6m round of financing
Lessons from the Rise and Fall of Digg
Many others are offering their critiques of Digg so I’ll refrain from anything serious in favor of being snarky. The #1 lesson we should all learn from Digg is that appearing in a dorky picture on the cover of BusinessWeek when you are still a young, private, and unprofitable company is pretty much asking to [...]
Consumer RSS: 1999-2010
paidContent made an interesting connection about Bloglines being shut down and the broader question of RSS in the age of Twitter. Indeed, in its announcement, Bloglines similarly blames broader trends for its demise, saying, “As Steve Gillmor pointed out inTechCrunch last year, being locked in an RSS reader makes less and less sense to people as Twitter [...]
Bad Form in Ad Placement
I really wish that media sites would build some intelligence into their ad placement services that enables them to exclude ads from content on the grounds of poor taste. Take a look at the screenshot I grabbed today from SFGate on the horrific gas line explosion in San Bruno that destroyed dozens of homes, killed [...]
Retiring Ecto
I have used Ecto to write my blog posts for almost as long as I’ve been writing this blog. I just like having an offline editor to write with and doing so gives me the added benefit of having an offline archive of everything I have published, plus Ecto handles images really well and like [...]
Craigslist and Prostitution… Again.
It’s the issue that just won’t go away. I wrote about this over a year ago, here and here. The New York Times makes a ridiculous assertion that Craigslist has removed the section and replaced it with the word “censored” as a ploy to inflame public support. It is a ridiculous assertion because the only [...]
Vox Shutting Down
Six Apart is shutting down their Vox blogging service at the end of September. I’m surprised it has taken this long… I, like most people, never got why Vox even launched in the first place but it’s a great lesson in product portfolio management. Vox was originally pitched as a blogging platform that embraced video [...]
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My name is Jeff Nolan and I write Venture Chronicles. I am the VP of Product Marketing for Get Satisfaction and I write about a range of topics that interest me, including public policy, technology, entrepreneurship, finance, and global issues.
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