I’ll be heading out to San Francisco on Wednesday for Web 2.0 Expo this week. I’m excited to meet up with some existing partners as well as to find some new companies offering innovative or new technology. The Expo Hall always provides a frenzy of activity. This year I plan to tackle it in smaller doses as it can overwhelm you if you try and check it out when traffic is at its peak (such as right after the key note).
If you’re around and would like to connect, contact me via my social network page for the conference, ping me on this site’s contact form or send me a note on Twitter.
The discussions of Twitter continue to increase in the blogosphere and are being picked up by mainstream media. Topics discussed range from day to day use, how media companies are pushing their RSS feeds through them and how marketing and PR firms are it to measure user feedback.
Nevertheless, there continues to be a large segment of the population out there who doesn’t quite “get” Twitter.
The following is a nice video by Sam Harrelson on how to use it. Check it out.
After much discussion, and presumably a very competitive auction, Facebook has agreed to sell 1.6% of the company to Microsoft for $240 million, placing Facebook’s valuation at the much-discussed $15 billion level.
So rather than re-state all the facts from the press release, I ask you was this a good deal and if so, for who?
Clearly, this helps Microsoft win a round with Google. Facebook, well, they and their VCs can be happy about the results of this transaction. As many suggest, this will give Facebook the cash it so desperately needs to expand.
As for Google, this isn’t really a big deal at all. They’ve got Orkut, which does incredible traffic albeit in Brazil and India. Besides, if the stock price keeps heading to the moon, they can just dive in and buy the whole thing, that is unless Microsoft has the right of first refusal. I guess we’ll see, but this one seems to have just begun.
After reading a great post over at Profy about FeedM8, I decided I’d run my feed through their platform.
Have to say, reminds me a lot of Feedburner in its simplicity. Essentially, the technology just leverages your RSS feed and turns it into mobile format. Having an ad network certainly won’t hurt them either, although they don’t share what percentage of the revenue that publishers are receiving.
As mobile continues to grow, you can’t help but wonder if this type of feature won’t continue to grwo signficantly as a way in which people access content.
If you’d like to sign up for your own mobile version, you can go here.
