In case you missed it this past Saturday night, Mark Zuckerberg made a cameo on Saturday Night Live along side Jesse Eisenberg, actor and star of the film The Social Network. It’s nice to see the young CEO starting to come out and show his own personality. It makes a lot of sense for Mark…
Read MoreYear old startup WatchParty wants to make TV-watching fun again by tapping into three activities we love to do, usually at the same time: watching TV, being online, and sharing. Co-founders Richard Fawal and Jake Kouns hit on a simple and clever solution: virtual living rooms that allow people separated by a few blocks, zip…
Read MoreVC investment in 2010 increased over the prior year for the first time since 2007 according to a numbers released by the NVCA and the PWC MoneyTree survey. Looking at the results begs the question; have we hit bottom or is this just a dead cat bounce? VCs invested $21.8 billion, an increase of 19%…
Read MoreA company from the Netherlands may just help you write the great American novel. Write.li is a web-based application that aims to help writers organize their thoughts and store work online for access anywhere a new idea strikes. Now, we all know you certainly don’t need a web app, or even a computer to write…
Read MoreEven though Facebook has eclipsed Google in the news, seems like Google had a pretty good year in 2010. Despite the whole China episode, Android took off, and their bets that mobile, display advertising, and the cloud would be big in 2010 proved correct. The use of Chrome and Google apps are growing exponentially. Oh,…
Read MoreSmart companies realize that they no longer control their brand. Social media has given voice to the consumer and democratized public opinion. Brand’s have become like NASA-launched deep-space probes. You build them, design them and then launch them into the ether and hope you maintain contact, can exert some control and avoid being hit by…
Read MoreToday we covered Lady Gaga and her participation as the “Creative Director” of Polaroid, so it only makes sense to share that today Intel announced that Will.i.am from The Black Eyed Peas is Intel’s new Director of Creative Innovation. I’d call this the beginning of a tech company trend. What’s next? Taylor Swift as Director…
Read MoreThis morning, the Academy of Motion Pictures announced the nominations for the 83rd Academy Awards, and, as expected, The Social Network was nominated in several categories. We absolutely loved the movie (see Frank’s review), so we are looking forward to seeing if The Social Network can overthrow The King’s Speech, which has generated equally ardent…
Read MoreLinkedIn, the professional networking site, has released a new feature in the labs called LinkedIn InMaps which creates colorful visualization of all your professional connections. You can then examine your map more closely, label all the various color as specific networks and share it with the world. Check out my network map. Of course, LinkedIn…
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Foursquare shared some data today as they reflected on 2010. According to their recent blog post which included a nice infographic, Foursquare grew 3400 percent in 2010. They also had their 6,000,000th user sign up last week. Here is a snapshot of some of the check-in data: Totaled 381,536,305 check-ins in every country, with the last…
Read MoreWith all the social media profiles and services out there, online reputation has become a hot topic. Products like Unvarnished (now Honestly.com) raised a stir as people were rated by anonymous users on the Web. Products like Blippr have also emerged to enable users to socially share ratings on apps, books, movies, and music. Taking…
Read MoreYesterday, Apple announced that they had surpassed 10 billion downloaded apps in the iTunes app store. That is a pretty amazing accomplishment and it only took Apple two and a half years. They had been running the 10 billion app countdown where one lucky winner could take home a $10,000 iTunes gift card. They have not…
Read MoreFacebook today announced it has raised U.S.$1.5 billion at a valuation of approximately $50 billion. This is not all news to us as we had reported the first signs of this deal earlier this month, but Facebook had not confirmed. The details of the deal are as follows: “Goldman Sachs completed an oversubscribed offering to…
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SnagFilms, a Washington, D.C. based startup, announced earlier this week it has received $10 million in growth capital from new investors New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Comcast Interactive Capital (CIC). The round of funding also included existing investors, including Ted Leonsis (SnagFilms’ Founder) and Steve Case. The additional financing will be used to expand its…
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Google had its fourth quarter earnings call this afternoon, and with it they announced that Larry Page is replacing Eric Schmidt as CEO of Google. Eric Schmidt will become the Chairman of Google on April 4th, 2011. Schmidt has been running Google since August 2001 which is nearly 10 years now, and a very long…
Read MoreBack in the wild and wooly days of the mid-1990s Internet boom, most DC business pundits were projecting that the capital region was going to be the “Next Silicon Valley.” It was heady times as local tech-star AOL, acquired Silicon Valley Internet pioneer and darling, Netscape. All of a sudden DC firms like UUNET, and…
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