Biz Dev in NYC by Rob Tsai

My friend Alex Iskold has been quite busy, and his company Adaptive Blue has just released a new version of their firefox add-on called Blue Organizer.
TechCrunch covers the news here, and so does Read/WriteWeb.
I’ve met Alex a number of times in New York, and it’s great to see the traction his service is getting.  The company […]

Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion and Pete Cashmore at Mashable have covered the news that Google is now embedding its widgets (Google Gadgets) within search results (if the searcher has opted to subscribe to those widgets).
Writes Steve:
Right now there are only a handful of gadgets you can sign up for. All of them are from […]

Scott Karp poses the question at Publishing 2.0 - “What is The Value Of Online Display Ads?”   He writes: 

Without clicks or some kind of response mechanism, how do advertisers determine the ROI of their display advertising? One reason why Google’s AdWords program has been so successful is that the ads use the format of the […]

BusinessWeek has an interesting cover story on how, in the search for higher returns, investors are assuming greater risks and investing in markets like Colombia:
Call them extreme emerging markets… In this parallel investing universe, price-earnings ratios take a backseat to fuzzy measures such as confianza, which translates into confidence and trust but is more […]

I wish I would have bought aQuantive stock, in the wake of the Google and Yahoo deals.  It wasn’t too hard to see the M&A frenzy in this space, and aQuantive’s position as a leading technology and service player for publishers and agencies was in plain site.  The stock is up 80% in early market […]