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Paul Graham of Y Combinator is putting on an event called AngelConf that hopes to show prospective tech and business investors how it all comes together. The event will be held on March 5th at Y Combinator’s office in Mountain View, Ca. and will be free of charge, although you’ll need to request an invitation from its homepage.
Silicon Valley has many wealthy tech veterans...
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Beet.tv picked up on a story in USA Today about Blip.tv paying emerging video producers as as much as $40,000 in advertising revenue.
Andy Plesser, executive producer at Beet.TV says they use Blip as their primary video publishing platform and as a non-exclusive advertising representative. Blip’s sponsors include Adobe, Holiday Inn Express and Akamai. ...
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Back when the Internet was young there were all sorts of schemes to monetize content and sell digital goods. One of the most talked about was the concept of micro-payments, where users would be charged incrementally based on how much content they consumed.
The idea never really caught on. And ever since, micro-payments have remained on the back burner for a host of reasons,...
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UK startup Skimbit has released a tool to aggregate affiliate links and offer them to other publishers. TechCrunch reports that the problem with similar schemes is that they don’t leave room for editorial control. However, Skimlinks aggregates 11 affiliate networks and puts publishers – blogs, forums, web apps – in full control, in return for a revenue share...
As part of their Top 10 Products series, ReadWriteWeb has put up a list of the Top 10 RSS and Syndication Products of 2008. According to the site, “these are the feed tools we and the people we know use day in and day out – we love them, we hate them, we wouldn’t want to work without them.”
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TechCrunch is reporting that Zemanta, a platform that aims to help online content producers find related content from across the web, has released a Public API aimed at helping fuel their Content Suggestion Engine. The idea behind Zemanta is to help bloggers enhance their publication(s) by allowing many more blogs, articles, web pages, etc. to be fed into...
Mashable has an interesting article on RiseSmart.com. The service, which caters to upper-level execs looking for work, launched in February and just received $3 million in Series A funding from Norwest Venture Partners of Palo Alto. RiseSmart does all the legwork of matching people up with an employer by using a staff of real people to act as a personal search “concierge” in addition to offering...
Robert Scoble has an interesting article about Brownbook.net paying users to add data to their business directory.
Here’s an exerpt;
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Dave Ingram, CEO of Brownbook.net, had a business problem: how can he build a world-wide business directory, but one with much more up to date info than any database that exists so far?
Well, he’s paying people who add data. He and co-...
I’m thinking about getting a T-Mobile G1. It features a full QWERTY keyboard, 3G support, Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth. The Google Android operating system offers good integration with Google applications as well as access to the Amazon MP3 Store and YouTube. As more applications become available, the G1 will also become a more powerful smartphone for all types of users.
The G1 doesn’t include a...
New York-based VC Fred Wilson posted an interesting piece today about stocktwits, a Twitter app that lets investors interact with one another.
Wilson likes the idea and thinks a lot could be done with this and similar apps that extract meaning out of content on the web such as Adaptive Blue which recognizes pages about books, music, film, stocks, wine, people, etc., Outside.in which recognizes...