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My favorite start-up got bought :-(

On July 23, 2010 By

Following on the heels of my post last week about the Google acquisition of MetaWeb, my favorite start-up Ellerdale announced that they’ve been acquired by Flipboard. As a reminder: Ellerdale, founded in 2008, has developed a Web Intelligence technology that applies semantic analysis to large, real-time data streams to extract relevant and valuable information. To [...]

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RE:The Mega Meta Opportunity (and Google buys Metaweb)

On July 16, 2010 By

Well, less than 24 hours after I posted The Mega Meta Opportunity, Google announced their acquisition of Metaweb. Normally this is where I would insert some smirky comment like “damn I’m good”. But admittedly I’d never heard of Metaweb and just got lucky on the timing of the announcement. Instead, I’ll be grateful to Google [...]

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The Mega Meta Opportunity

On July 15, 2010 By

Seth Godin provided a teaser on his blog today about the lurking opportunities with metadata (information about information) that I’d like to expand on: “Many people and organizations are contributing to this mass of data, but few are taking advantage of the opportunity to collate it and present it to people who desperately need it. [...]

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DimDim gets $6M

On July 9, 2008 By

A big cheers to one of my favorite start-ups, DimDim (see blog post here). They just raised $6M in capital. Nice work guys. It demonstrates what’s possible if you come to market with a viable product in the right niche and execute well.  These guys didn’t come out of the gate as a “Web 2.0″ [...]

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Google Enters Business Intelligence Market?

On January 23, 2008 By

OK, so the title is a bit overstated, but now that I have your attention:   A couple months ago Google [quietly] released a hosted charting API. Albeit it lacks the sex appeal of their big splash products like GMail or Google Docs, it tapped my imagination. The basic concept is that your application passes [...]

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Kiva.org – Microcredit & Philanthropy meets the web

On September 5, 2007 By

About a month ago, I wrote a post on the book “A Billion Bootstraps” and briefly discussed the concept of Microcredit. Since reading the book earlier this year, Amy and I have been actively researching Microcredit and sizing up the best angle and mechanisms for us to get involved. Coincidentally about two weeks ago, we saw a special on [...]

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