Two years ago, I said that by 2020, 90% of the U.S. population would have willingly agreed to provide at least some of their personal data to the MAW—the omnipresent collision of media, advertising and work in our everyday lives. In the most competitive markets, the winners will be those with the most, and most accurate, data. MORE >>

I will be speaking at two more conferences in June: the NYC Landmark Venture Forum – Digital Media 2020 on June 13 th  and CCG Marcum MicroCap Conference on June 20 th. The Landmark Venture Forum is hosted by Landmark Angels , an angel investor group, and will feature 12 promising emerging companies in the digital media space. MORE >>

Products like awe.sm (I’m an investor) will help you manage the efficacy of your social media marketing campaigns. AOL is in the process of rebuilding itself and emulating a little-known LA-based startup called Demand Media. This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. chuckle. The Past (1985-2002). MORE >>

During today's roundtable, we opened the session with a discussion of the existential crisis in media and how talented bloggers and journalists are facing a tough time sustaining themselves due to lack of business models. met Ram Kumar during my visit to Chennai and advised him to look at the Bioscope project in my Vision India 2020 book. MORE >>

While on this topic, I want to particularly emphasize the social media advertising trend, and my observation that the infrastructure to measure, analyze, optimize, and target is really wide open, and I'd like to hear from entrepreneurs working on the various nuances of that particular problem. Next, we had two very interesting entrepreneurs. MORE >>