Yesterday, as part of Google's 10th anniversary celebration of Blogger, they announced the integration of SocialVibe into the Blogger platform.  We are obviously excited to be working with the two largest blogging platforms (Blogger and WordPress) to help their bloggers (and readers) raise money for the charity of their choice.  SocialVibe was started to give people (i.e., bloggers, social media users) the opportunity to recieve benefit for

David McCandless is putting together some great visual charts (thanks to Peter Lee at Baroda Ventures for the tip) at his site Information is Beautiful .  One of his latest charts shows actual and/ or required spending on everything from the Iraq War to a manned mission to Mars.

Today's announcement of the 10 year partnership between Yahoo! and Microsoft has effectively ended Yahoo! grand experiment in search.  Remember early 2003 (see picture below) - back then Yahoo! had still not rolled out it's own algorithmic search and was outsourcing it's paid search to Overture. 

Earlier today I ran across a NY Times article by Frank Rich bemoaning the state of our national news in light of Walter Cronkite's death.  As Frank outlines: "The real test is how a journalist journalist responds when people in high places are doing low deeds out of

I generally am working as an acting CTO for about 3-4 start-ups or other companies at any one time. I was just talking with someone who asked me to define how that could work and what they meant. Great question. I also found this interesting graphic of the changing needs around the CTO role in different

For some reason over the past week, I've been asked by three different people I know about job opportunities that might fit them. Since, I've given them the same advice, I thought it was worth putting in my blog. I personally believe that the best way to hire, find partners, and find a job is through a network.

One of the topics that came up in my post Mobile Internet Apple Facebook was around open vs. closed platforms. This issue comes up at the start of almost every new startup company in a variety of forms. I’m constantly struggling with trying to figure out the best way to pull together solutions, especially with how fast things move.

I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. In December 2007, I described how I commonly take on an Acting CTO Role in a Start-up . I used an image from Roger Smith that describes the varying roles of a CTO as the company matures. However, I’ve now begun questioning how and what an early-stage / startup CTO should be.

I recently had a conversation with an pre-launch startup where they discussed how SEO was going to be really important for them. They went on to describe a fairly common type of site that has some original content, but not much. They are in a space where there is lots of search traffic, but they didn't have anything particularly interesting to say about how they were going to get ranked. This isn't the first time I've had this same conversation.