Writing

Over at Alley Insider, Peter Kafka waxes poetic about the Radiohead's "In Rainbows" experiment, correctly recognizing that the import of this event is not how much money Radiohead made from releasing their album with a pay-what-you-want model, but instead:"Radiohead is [...]  Read more

New York Times:"Last year, Nike spent just 33 percent of its $678 million United States advertising budget on ads with television networks and other traditional media companies. That’s down from 55 percent 10 years ago, according to the trade publication [...]  Read more

I'm biased but Jack did make a nice video for us: Read more

I've been aware of Amie St for a while now -- heard the buzz, checked out the service a few times. Looked interesting, but I never spent too much time really thinking hard about what they were creating.The way it [...]  Read more

Patrick McAndrew:"Google Knowledge is when you don’t know something but you know Google does." Read more

As I look at seed stage start ups, the international environment is much more relevant now compared to 10 years ago, at least in terms of competitive standing, markets to go after, and centers or pockets of innovation. Saul Klein [...]  Read more

Carmun (of which I am a founder, etc.) is getting set to launch v2.0 of its student connective wisdom, yin to the Facebook yang, product. I believe that the web presents an opportunity for businesses to take fresh looks at [...]  Read more

Allen Stern of CenterNetworks is hosting an event, a "mixer" on September 27th. CenterNetworks, like AlleyInsider, seem to be a new breed of content related sites and communities that, aside from a particular focus on the New York area (excellent!), [...]  Read more

Yahoo acquires Blue Lithium, as widely reported.Personally, I think this is a much more interesting deal than Yahoo's acquisition of Right Media, Microsoft's purchase of aQuantive, and Google's buy of Doubleclick, because I believe advanced targeting, particularly as it relates [...]  Read more