Writing

Marco built (well, released) something called Instapaper the other day which allows one to save web articles to read later.Its goal is simple (save to read later), its functionality is simple (click the read later button/bookmarket) and its design is [...]  Read more

Ian Rogers of Yahoo and elsewhere writes that that scale of the web creates media opportunity through the creation of:" . . . a loosely-coupled value chain including users as value creators. The value chain is not owned by a [...]  Read more

Seth Godin writes today about Charles and EJ's latest designs at I'm in like with you:"Given the choice, that teenager you're trying to market to is ignoring you and she's on this site instead. Take it or leave it."Design, functionality, [...]  Read more

Jeff Nolan writes something very insightful about the potential changed nature of venture investing (which is near and dear to my betaworks heart):"[I]n many ways I recoil at the notion that true invention and innovation matters less today, but it [...]  Read more

In the context of design and aesthetics, Andrew Chen reminds me that:My Space is alot larger than Facebook in terms of users, pages per visitor, and ads per page viewed; andMy Space has more visits, visitors, page views, and average [...]  Read more

Peter wrote about betaworks today. Read more

I've written about my love affair with Amie St., so its obvious that I am intrigued by different ways to deliver audio content.My friend David, who has been at the epicenter of the online ad business for the past 10 [...]  Read more

. . . could be the new My Space targeted ad platform reported on by CNET and Tech Crunch. Looks like this is the fruit of the earlier Fox Interactive Media acquisition of Strategic Data Corp. earlier this year. This [...]  Read more

Design and presentation matter. Billy Chasen is a friend and a highly creative developer we've (betaworks) been working with the past few months. Billy's created a number of great apps, and perhaps I'm biased but I find myself using each [...]  Read more