As the volume of user generated content grows, discovering quality content is becoming harder and harder. Just think about how much crap you read in blogs for the one link you feel is note worthy, or these days, Twitter worthy. BloggersBase is looking to solve the problem through a competition-based...

We hosted Lee Dryburgh, the organizer of eComm, on the January 26th SquawkBox conference call.  A wide ranging and well attended conference call, we discussed the origins of the eComm Conference, what to expect from this year’s conference, and highlights of previous years. Along the way, we also ...

Back on December 30 of last year, Skype Journal’s Phil Wolff was opining in the Skype 4.x discussion group on what he’d do if Skype were more open.  This is some of what Phil wrote: I’d be building Skype relationships and conversations into web sites. into mobile apps. i’d be in...

Yesterday’s 2008: The Year that VoIP Died generated a slew of interesting responses. Jon Arnold and Andy Abramson wrote me in email to say that I had made the same points that they had.  While it’s true that I made many of the same points, my view of their meaning is perhaps different.Â...

I thought I was going to a breakfast where people actually ate food. But food is hardly the top priority at a Jeff Pulver breakfast, where people are too busy pitching their latest ideas to investors, scoping out the competition, or scoping out the eligible singles on the market. Jeff is known for b...

The Wall Street Journal had a feature article a week back with a look at the growing trend of consumers to ditch their cable service in favor of watching their television online. The article has some good statistics, estimating that online 1% of consumers watch all their television online.  Some of...

Its hard not to have heard about Qik around the Internet, even more so if spending any time at all on Twitter or other SocNets. Whether new or a Qik addict new features keep coming. The trouble is these new features aren't always obvious, even for the most technically inclined among us. That being t...

I slept for most of today. Not sure why, figure it could be a mixture of many things, but sleep I did. Woke up around 4pm to a tweet from David Cohen about a fire in West Boulder. Jumped in my car to go run errands, and there was a large cloud of smoke. Here is an easy punchline: It was 4/20. Yes, i...

Yesterday, I had the privilege of attending Jeff Pulver’s Social Media Breakfast at the San Jose Convention Center. I got to meet a number of people in person, including Jeff Pulver, Pat Phelan, Luca Filigheddu, Stuart Henshall, Brough Turner, Dean Elwood, James Body, Lee Dryburgh, Andy Abrams...

Jeff Pulver posted some advice for prospective entrepreneurs that's worth repeating: Believe in yourself. Find your own identity. Don’t confirm. Be passionate. Share your passion. (It is very hard to get outside money for a project where the passion of the founder isn’t felt. Nothing is Impossib...