Biz Dev in NYC by Rob Tsai

(aka Zenrob's) personal blog on investments and business development

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Entries from January 2007

Valuing the MyBlogLog acquisition

January 15th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Don Dodge writes an interesting post on the $10 million purchase of MyBlogLog by Yahoo, where he lays out various valuation methodologies - including valuation per employee, per subscriber, and so on.
I don’t know how much revenue MyBlogLog has to date.  It’s not zero, but I wouldn’t guess that it’s huge either.  I actually subscribe […]

Tags: widgets · blogging

Widget Syndication Metrics, from Widgetbox

January 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

I ran across Will Price’s excellent posting on the widget analytics dashboard released by Widgetbox:
The release further positions Widgetbox as the leader in the web widget space and as the backplane for syndicating, publishing, and tracking the widgetsphere. Since launch in October, the company has served 8.7m widgets to date and the widgetsphere (check home […]

Tags: widgets

Can Google be beaten?

January 3rd, 2007 · 2 Comments

Alex Iskold writes, and Richard Macmanus edits, a great article on “The Race to Beat Google.”   They reference Emre Sokullu’s earlier post that breaks down the Search arms race in three areas:

Better Technology
Better User Interface
Vertical Search

Here’s their chart on the competitors for Google’s lunch:

The NY Times article “In Silicon Valley, the Race Is On […]

Tags: search · Google

How Communities and Widgets Drive Traffic

January 1st, 2007 · 2 Comments

One interesting analysis that you can run on your blog, if you subscribe to MyBlogLog’s premium analysis service for a $25 annual fee, is to see where your readers come from.
I ran the report on my old blog at Typepad for the 3 months from Sep. to Nov. 2006, and found that MyBlogLog was responsible for […]

Tags: widgets · social networking · blogging