Loomia (the startup I've been working with and running their marketing) announced a huge customer win yesterday with the announcement of Dow Jones as a customer. Loomia is now serving recommendations to the WSJ.com providing recommendation under the header of "People who Read this, also read...". Here's a link to ...
Jeremy Liew started quite a discussion in the tech vc blogosphere with his post Asymetric risk and the danger of too high a valuation which was endorsed by Josh Koppelman and bashed by my fellow silicon alley alum Jason Calacanis and indirectly criticized by (and what might have influenced Jeremy's post) Marc Andreesen.
As someone who ...
blist and Loomia have been keeping me busy for sure. And on top of that helping with the Casual Game Association's - seattle conference (Casual Connect) coming up next month I'm swamped! I have a bunch of posts in the backlog that I need to get on here, but in ...
Announced earlier today - eBay bought Stumbleupon. I ran across Stumbleupon back in 2004 and ran the toolbar for awhile but ultimately dumped it. Never got into the user generated recommendations thing myself. That being said, I will say Stumbleupon has been this blog's biggest driver of new users so ...
One thing about working in online startups is to remember never burn bridges because you never who or when you will bump into someone from your past. It's a small world after all.
I had a few such experiences this past week at the Topix party around Web 2.0 Expo (BTW ...
David Marks, CEO and co-founder of Loomia, has written a piece over at the new GigaOm site - Foud+Read - that talks about how startups including Loomia often change direction to be successful. Loomia's position and success today is definitely related to the changes it made a couple of years ago. ...
As of this afternoon, I officially signed up to work with Loomia. Their approach to the recommendation and personalization space is likely the best in their space and I look forward to helping them with their marketing. They are up against some well funded competitors, and to them I say may the best team win.
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