Biz Dev in NYC by Rob Tsai

Dee deVries Salomon (SVP, Sales and Marketing, CondéNet) gave a great inside look at how media companies are adapting and innovating in an age where there are no longer borders for content. 
Dee used the word “velocity” to describe the effect that sharing has on traffic.  Reddit, another CondeNet acquisition, is a leading social bookmarking service (like Digg) […]

Scott Rafer referred me recently to Roberto Bonanzinga’s new stock picking community - Jambaz.
Jambaz hosts a stock picking game every two week that harnesses the knowledge of its members. I’ll embed the widget below.
Mashable covered the launch of Jambaz here:
You play by indicating which direction the stock prices will close, and Jambaz will keep […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Hooman Radfar poses this question in response to Keith Teare’s follow-up post on Fred Wilson’s discussion of this “De-portalization” trend:
If you buy the atomization of the web bit, then you are probably on board with the concurrent theme being propagated around the blogosphere - the death of the page view. Folks like Evan Williams, Fred Wilson, […]

Ivan Pope at Snipperoo writes a great piece looking back on the 2006 year in widgets. I’m flattered to have a mention in his summary of July for a post I wrote on a search engine for widgets, and in August for a review of Widgetbox, and in September for my post on […]

Yahoo! is hosting an event around Predictive Markets called confab.yahoo on Wednesday Dec. 13 at  5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at their headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA.  Thanks to Richard MacManus at Read/Write Web for pointing this out, and incidentally, he is looking for a blogger to cover that event.
I thought I’d look at a few predictive markets, […]