Not many people labeled as Visionary really deserve the title.   Reid Hoffman definitely does.   He's proven it multiple times, both as an EVP at PayPal & founder/CEO/Chairman at LinkedIn, and as an insightful & early angel investor at Facebook, Digg, Friendster, Flickr...

[note: this post was originally a comment on TechCrunch post summarizing Max Levchin's panel on web platforms from the Web 2.0 Summit, with Facebook, MySpace, Google, & Microsoft.  i decided since my comment went past 3 paragraphs, i should probably expand it on my own blog...] this is gros...

ok, so even after all these announcements about data portability, no one seems to understand what the hell i keep talking about re: using email & IM messaging data stores to improve targeting & make friend lists work better.  i admit it's a bit inside-baseball, but it's actually pretty ...

hey Kara:  want to know why Facebook, Slide, RockYou, Ning, & all those other Facebook toy apps (& MySpace, etc) are worth $15B or $500M +? well if they're worth anywhere near that much, it's not obvious 100M+ widgets, walls, & installs are what generates revenue... however, it MAY ...

note: this isn't an April Fool's post, at least not intentionally... Semantic Web , WTF?  Nigga please, tell me something i give a shit about. while i find the concept of a semantic web intellectually stimulating, for the most part i think it's just a lot of geeky mental masturbation (did i jus...

My friend Sonal Shah is working on a new initiative at Google.org to help fuel the growth of Small- & Medium-size Enterprises (SMEs) , initially in India & Africa.  Along with Omidyar Network & the Soros Economic Development Fund, Google.org recently announced the creation of a $17M...

I had a wonderful time chatting with Kara Swisher about All Things Digital up in SF earlier this week.  while sipping a delightful chai (me) & java (her) in The Castro, i decided to turn the tables and put *Kara* in front of the camera for once.  the following video is my first tyro at...