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88Slide creator on vlogs and more

Site is focus of Amanda Congdon rumorRumor has it that 88Slide may be doing a deal with former Rocketboom hostess Amanda Congdon. During Vloggercon in San Francisco on June 10, 2006, CNET News.com talked with the creator of 88Slide, Noah Bonnett, about his vlog site.

Tags: Amanda Congdon

Videos 2006-07-11

Rocketboom and beyond

Hear the News.com editorial take on Amanda Congdon's split fromHear the News.com editorial take on Amanda Congdon's split from RocketboomAmanda Congdon's surprise departure from the show has caused quite a buzz in the blogosphere. But the news also shined a spotlight on both the perils and potential of video blogging....

Tags: Amanda Congdon

Videos 2006-07-08

Gossip, key to engaging Social Web community?

I recently asked: “Digg: 'newspaper of the Web', or its gossip column?”:Perhaps we should call Digg a gossip column, for while Digg commentary is entertaining and colorful, it is often not newsworthy…Recent Digg “news” commentary/gossip about Comcast tech support:Yes I hate Comcast too. But really, I just hate anyone who...

Tags: Andrew Baron, Digg, Social Web

Blog posts 2006-07-06

What's important to the tech blogosphere

The blogosphere can have a powerful network effect. Sometimes it reveals what gets the blogosphere hot under the collar. The two biggest stories on TechMeme, the inside the tech blogosphere barometer, lately have been Robert Scoble's exit from Microsoft and now Amanda Congdon's split from Rocketboom, along with Google Spreadsheets....

Tags: TechMeme, blogosphere

Blog posts 2006-07-06

Rocketboom sans Amanda

Will Hollywood embrace the vlog starlet?The Rocketboom video blog is on hiatus and hopes to relaunch on July 10 with a new presenter. While Amanda Congdon says on her Amanda UnBoomed blog that she was forced to leave the partnership, of which she owned a 49 percent stake, and is...

Tags: Amanda Congdon, Rocketboom

Videos 2006-06-13

Additional Resources

Blip.tv vs. YouTube? Founder talks 'The Real Deal' in exclusive interview

Blip.tv is not a blip in online video.I chatted at length with Mike Hudack, co-founder and CEO, today about how blip.tv came to be and where it is headed.Blip.tv has a simple tag line that encapsulates its straightforward mission: “a great service for great shows.” Hudack and his four...

Tags: YouTube Inc., video, Mike Hudack, advertisement, Blip.tv

Blog posts 2006-11-13

Web 2.0: Top five social risks list

Kevin Rose, co-founder and CTO of Digg posted an open letter at his blog this week championing Web 2.0 Social Web properties such as his Digg (see “Digg vs. Netscape, Kevin vs. Jason, Web 2.0 vs. commercial Internet”):Ya see users like Digg, Del.icio.us, Reddit and Flickr because they are contributing...

Tags: Digg, Web, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2006-07-29

Calacanis new 'Robin Hood' of the Web?

“Every generation looks at Robin through its own filters and remakes him in its own fashion,” says Legends’ “The Robin Hood Pages.”Is Jason Calacanis this Web generation’s “Robin Hood’?According to Britan Express’ “Myths and Legends”:The story of Robin Hood is so well known that it scarcely needs to be reviewed…The...

Tags: Robin Hood, Social Web

Blog posts 2006-07-19

Rocketboom: 'lots of chuckles', what about lots of money

Dave Winer is rooting for Rocketboom to succeed as it embarks on life with a new public face, former MTV vj Joanne Colan.Winer says:Rocketboom is bigger than two people.It plays the role this weblog played in the early days of blogging. It distributes attention to all kinds of creative people...

Tags: Rocketboom partners, Rocketboom, TRM, Rocketboom $40,000

Blog posts 2006-07-09

Rocketboom: Web 2.0 'success' on $20 a day?

As every American is born with the unalienable right to the “pursuit of happiness,” and we often equate money with happiness, there is a tendency to jump on “happiness” bandwagons, rather than take “slow boats to happiness.”This second wave of the commercial Internet is no exception.At TechCrunch, Michael Arrington cheerleads...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2006-07-06

From Rocketboom to UnBoomed: Web 2.0 partnership fizzles out

In “Notes from the tech conference underground,” Dan Farber reflects on a greater significance that can be gleaned from a 13 tech conference Spring swing:The extended spring tech conference season is beginning to wind down. I have done my share of time watching panels, keynotes and pitches, and hanging out...

Tags: idealism, Rocketboom

Blog posts 2006-07-05

Back in the USSR

Nick Carr is truly the gift that keeps on giving. His latest can-opener concerns the alleged Google strategy of converting all reading interfaces to search and keyword (i.e. tagging) interfaces. Nick's genius (I think he is the leader in the post-dvorak world of meme-baiting) is to keep the bile churning...

Tags: Nick, Don't Forget

Blog posts 2006-05-08

Sitting on a fence

Warning: The following is a blatant attempt to encourage you to contribute to the GestureBank.I have been staring at the GestureBank 100 list for the last few minutes. Just waiting for something to jump out at me. (Note: you have to be a contributor to the GestureBank open metadata pool...

Tags: Tom, Dylan, GB100

Blog posts 2006-04-21