Web 3.0

• Today's Lesson: How to Call a Top!
  Posted by Howard on October 18th, 2007 at 8:30 am, Comments: 2 comments

  It’s easy. Just keep calling for it. I have said China was topping at least twice including yesterday. Josh Kopelman has an excellent post written [...]

• Google/YouTube Video Adsense…A Historic Day for Web Video?
  Posted by Howard on October 9th, 2007 at 7:59 am, Comments: 5 comments

  It seems that way with Google’s release of Video Adsense. Straight from the horse’s mouth . I sold half my Google position in celebration of [...]

• Web Trends…The $100k for My Kid's Education Better Spent on a Their Start-Ups
  Posted by Howard on October 6th, 2007 at 9:27 pm, Comments: 4 comments

  Paul Graham’s essay – The Future of Web Startups – has become pretty viral in the VC and Nerd Community. Rightly so…it’s awesome. Not so [...]

• Covestor Gets Crunched
  Posted by Howard on October 4th, 2007 at 9:42 am, Comments: 1 comment

  Mike’s an ass (TechCrunch) and he and I have come to an understanding about that (he thinks I despise him..I don’t), but Covestor was Crunched [...]

• Mint.com vs. Wesabe.com…Cage/Cat Fight
  Posted by Howard on September 26th, 2007 at 4:36 pm, Comments: 6 comments

  Not realy, just Meghann from Lindzonmerica putting both to the test. Meghann’s financial life is pretty simple but stressful like the rest of us. I [...]

• Buddy Media…A Project with 'Buddies' raises $1.5 million…My Fund Included
  Posted by Howard on September 23rd, 2007 at 8:22 pm, Comments: 4 comments

  All Facebook is breaking the story here . I am just going to let Mike execute as he always does, but in a nutshell: The [...]

• Social Network for The Dead
  Posted by Howard on September 23rd, 2007 at 7:51 pm, Comments: No comments yet

  I love this idea . Nicholas Carr has all the gory details . This makes sense for me if I could get comfy with the [...]

• Mint.com…Cool and Refreshing
  Posted by Howard on September 18th, 2007 at 9:35 pm, Comments: 7 comments

  I am excited about the potential for Mint.com . I think young people will be all over this. Eddie just emailed me and likes it. [...]

• Sony buys Grouper – Not quite Apple buying YouTube, but interesting gauntlet nonetheless…
  Posted by Howard on August 23rd, 2006 at 3:39 am, Comments: 7 comments

  Sony takes a $65 million cash leap into the video sharing space. Cool. I just signed up for an account. Pretty easy process. BUT, a [...]

• Biltmore Ventures
  Posted by Howard on August 21st, 2006 at 7:21 pm, Comments: 2 comments

  Today we formalized a new VC firm and fund in Phoenix called Biltmore Ventures. We are shooting for a launch date of October 1, 2006. [...]

• The 2.0 trend. Silly but fun. "Not that there's anything wrong with that"
  Posted by Howard on August 21st, 2006 at 12:17 pm, Comments: No comments yet

  Peter Rip, a venture Capitalist at Leapfrog Ventures, has a funny post up titled “Everything 2.0.” Thanks to Fraser for replugging my Networking 2.0 piece [...]

• Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Bubbles and Google Fear (Opportunity) Revisited
  Posted by Howard on August 21st, 2006 at 6:30 am, Comments: 2 comments

  Lot’s of great stuff around the web this morning. Obviously, I start my day with The Blogging Times . Sorry Trader Mike :) . Today, [...]