Facebook Marketing | Twitter Marketing | Get Facebook Likes. Influence, Reputation, and Ethics in the Social Arena. An Interview with Kara Swisher. 0 Flares Twitter 0 Facebook 0 Google+ 0 StumbleUpon 0 LinkedIn 0 inShare0 Buffer 0 Email -- Email to a friend 0 Flares × Kara, thanks so much for joining me today. Thanks, Marty. Good to be chatting with you today. I know that you have referenced the Dow Jones Code of Conduct in your ethics statement, but you’ve gone much further by providing some very candid details of your personal life. Yes, I do use the Dow Jones Code of Conduct framework, and link to it my ethics statement on our site. Can you tell me why you thought this was important? Well a couple things. For example, Megan, years before she and I had met, had an investment from AOL in the company she was CEO of, PlanetOut. I also think we provide full disclosure in a humorous way.
We think it’s really important that the reader is fully informed even if they don’t think it’s a big deal. The kind of letters I get from readers are astonishing, all of which are supportive. Yes, some people do. It’s interesting. Scott McNealy re-emerges in tech circles | Deep Tech. Scott McNealy, who co-founded and led Sun Microsystems for many years before its sale to Oracle last year, is once again engaging in the technology world. Fittingly for the one-man sound bite factory, McNealy has taken to Twitter, dishing up snarky remarks and relishing the fact that not being CEO of a company means he doesn't have to be politically correct. And he's involved in business again, too, as chairman of stealth start-up WayIn. McNealy isn't dishing on WayIn, but some details are bubbling up. WayIn start-upMike Schmitz, who says he's senior director of consumer products and marketing at WayIn on his LinkedIn profile, has the most detailed description.
"WayIn is a platform where consumers can play user-created games while watching television or live events," he said. Schmitz also ran a contest for a WayIn.com logo at 99designs.com. WayIn's director of software development is Liqun "Lea" Wang, according to her LinkedIn profile. He also brings up technology matters. How to Respond to Media Criticism. DEAL COMMERCE - THE NEW ADSENSE. New Internet bubble gathering steam Therese Poletti's Tech Tales. By Therese Poletti, MarketWatch SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — If there was any doubt that another Internet bubble is forming, the first-quarter venture capital data released earlier this month should have dispelled it. Data from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and the National Venture Capital Association earlier this month showed that the number of deals funded in the quarter dropped.
Venture capitalists funded 736 deals, down from 787 deals in the first quarter of 2010. But VCs have not exactly been restraining themselves as the valuations of the still private companies like Facebook and Groupon have soared in the secondary markets. While the number of deals may be down, the average deal size is up, showing that many young companies are getting more dollars per venture round. The NVCA said that the first quarter data showed the lowest number of deals since the third quarter of 2009. PWC also has another category called Internet-specific companies. US : U.S.: Nasdaq. The Curation Economy and The 3C’s of Information Commerce Brian Solis.
InShare1 Several years ago I had the privilege of working with Steve Rosenbaum, author of Curation Nation. Back then Steve was already vested in the future of online curation and his grande conquête was playing out with Magnify.net, a realtime video curation network. At the time, he was also a staple at some of the tech industry’s most renown conferences sharing his vision for social, video, and curated content. As Steve was completing his new book, he asked if I would write the foreword. At the time I was finalizing the new version of Engage! And as a result, I couldn’t make his deadline. But nonetheless, I was inspired to write an honorary foreword that I’ve held onto to celebrate the official release of Steve’s new book. I share this digital foreword with you here… The Curation Economy and The 3C’s of Information Commerce I always appreciate when a very complex and important subject is simplified to ease understanding.
Creating original content, consistently over time, is daunting. Genachowski: FCC inherited a "real mess" in net neutrality. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. Image by jdlasica via Flickr On April 14, 2011 Fortune's Adam Lashinsky interviewed Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, in Mountain View, Calif., at an event sponsored by the Commonwealth Club of California. The chairman danced around the most prominent item on his agenda, the proposed acquisition of T-Mobile by AT&T.
He also discussed spectrum re-allocation, his pragmatic approach, and what it was like being a law school classmate of President Obama. ADAM LASHINSKY: Good evening, and welcome to our Commonwealth Club's Silicon Valley program, brought to you from the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. I'm Adam Lashinsky, Senior Editor at Large at Fortune Magazine. Julius Genachowski brings a diverse background to his leadership of the FCC. He served several distinguished clerkships following law school, including for the honorable Abner J. Please join me in welcoming Julius Genachowski. JULIUS GENACHOWSKI: Gavels. Silicon Valley Cashes Out Selling Private Shares. Vince Thompson doesn't appear in any accounts of Facebook's early years.
Few of the more than 2,000 employees at the company even know his name. The AOL (AOL) veteran's brief stint as Facebook's first official ad-sales chief lasted less than six months. Even so, when Thompson left the company in early 2006, he exercised his options to buy Facebook stock, as is the custom in Silicon Valley, and took a sizable chunk of shares with him. About 18 months later he moved to Los Angeles and started consulting for media clients such as TVGuide.com on how to tap new sources of revenue, and he began to think about how to create one for himself.
The idea seemed highly impractical since Facebook wasn't—and still isn't—a public company. One banker introduced Thompson to a New York firm called Restricted Stock Partners, which in mid-2007 had a small office near Battery Park with two windows that looked onto a brick wall. That tension is on ample display in Silicon Valley these days. Storify Collects Strands of News on the Social Web. Jim Wilson/The New York Times Burt Herman, left, and Xavier Damman, the founders of Storify, which opens Monday.
A Web start-up named Storify, which opens to the public Monday, aims to help journalists and others collect and filter all this information. Using the Storify Web site, people can find and piece together publicly available content from Twitter, Flickr, , and other sites. They can also add text and embed the resulting collages of content on their own sites. During a private test period, reporters from The Washington Post, NPR, and other outlets used the service. Storify, based in San Francisco, is one of several Web start-ups — including Storyful, Tumblr and Color — that are developing ways to help journalists and others sift through the explosion of online content and publish the most relevant information.
Investors are also betting there is a market for filtering the social Web for high-quality posts. “We have so many real-time streams now, we’re all drowning,” Mr. Mr. Have trade magazines got a shelf life? | Media. It helps to have a sense of perspective if you are a senior trade magazine publishing executive, on the front line of the media industry's struggle to fashion viable new business models as traditional print circulations and advertising revenue drain away. David Levin, United Business Media chief executive, draws a comparison between the situation the trade press finds itself in today and 1912, "when there were a lot of blacksmiths about and we were about to get the motor car". There have been two more high profile casualties in the past month as the sector navigates the tricky transition from print to digital, with controlled circulation titles Accountancy Age and Computer Weekly both abandoning the weekly news magazine format after more than 40 years and going online only.
The UK business-to-business sector took a battering in the 2009 recession, like other advertiser-funded media, and is now in recovery mode. Building gateways Sign of defeat Consumer co-operation. Q&A: McAfee CEO Breaks Down Intel’s $7.7 Billion Buyout - Andy Greenberg - The Firewall.