Sat.May 12, 2007 - Fri.May 18, 2007

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Social Shopping (continued)

BeyondVC

Congratulations to my friend Gary Vaynerchuk of the Wine Library for his acquisition of Cork’d (see Mashable and the Alarm Clock for coverage). When I had dinner with Gary a few months ago we talked about how the next big opportunity for e-commerce was to weave social networking and blogging tools into the existing infrastructure to directly drive transactions (see excerpt below from an earlier post on social shopping ).

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Online video advertising -- halfway there

aweissman.com

skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. May 14, 2007. Online video advertising -- halfway there. This weekend I read about two interesting companies developing advertising platforms for online video providers and publishers. ScanScout s technology scans video content, creates intelligence about the clip and then dynamically matches ads to the content and intelligence it has just created.

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Internet Ad Frenzy – what’s next?

BeyondVC

Wow-what a past couple of days! First I would like to say congratulations to David Moore, CEO of 24/7 RealMedia, on the company’s pending sale to WPP Group for $649mm. I first met David in 1996 when he made his move from offline to online advertising as my prior fund invested in the initial round of 24/7. We have stayed in touch throughout the years and what has impressed me most about David is his perseverance, sticking with the company through a few near-death experiences, struggling to

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Second Life for Kids (continued)

BeyondVC

The kids space is hot. Techcrunch just reported on rumors that Montgomery and Co or Monty was working with Club Penguin on a sale to Sony for $500 million. Montgomery is the same investment bank responsible for selling Intermix (MySpace) to NewsCorp and Grouper to Sony so they have been building a nice practice in the Internet and digital media sectors.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in