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My new fascination with Podcasts

VC Cafe

The reason podcasts captured my imagination today, is a podcast I listened to (very meta) by Recode’s Peter Kafka, and Nick Quah, journalist and curator of HotPod. Serial exploded in popularity and spread virally. Superbly curated, and Guy Raz is just a pleasure to listen to. We are unable to find iTunes on your computer.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Eve Tokens, The Creative Curator. #3 Our goal was to create a viral environment where personal networks and recommendations helped drive online store purchases. I do that by writing for them; web content, blogs, articles, marketing collateral, and the like. It is incredible rewarding. 3 – Realizing a Need.

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My fascination with Podcasts

VC Cafe

The reason podcasts captured my imagination today, is a podcast I listened to (very meta) by Recode’s Peter Kafka, and Nick Quah, journalist and curator of HotPod. Serial exploded in popularity and spread virally. Superbly curated, and Guy Raz is just a pleasure to listen to. We are unable to find iTunes on your computer.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere.

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Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem

This is going to be BIG.

What Apple proved, and what I suspect is the issue with web content, is that monetization was a product problem. I never would have paid for music back in 1999 or 2000 when I was sporting my 64mb Creative Nomad, powered completely ilegally by Napster. The same absolutely can't be said for web content.

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