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- Rocketboom to launch Digg clone
- News comes from SXSW that the popular video podcast, Rocketboom, will later today launch its own Digg-like social news site. Built using the open-source content management system, Pligg, the new site will allow viewers to create a profile, submit and vote on stories for possible inclusion in the show, as...
- Tags: Rocketboom, social networking
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- Ze Frank and Rocketboom: How much is too much for Web stars?
- Ze Frank and Rocketboom: How much is too much for Web stars?I haven't the faintest idea..."Yes, I know Amanda left Rocketboom. But what the name of her replacement is…. I haven't the faintest idea."Couldn't you have just gone to Rocketboom's site? It took me a whole 30 seconds to find...
- Tags: Channel management, Web, Rocketboom
- Discussion threads 2006-10-25
- Ze Frank and Rocketboom: How much is too much for Web stars?
- Yesterday, I launched a poll about whether readers would give $50 to National Public Radio or to vlogger Ze Frank. At this writing, the results are 57 percent for NPR and 43 percent for Ze Frank. Here's the follow-up question: How much is too much to pay for a Web...
- Tags: Ze Frank
- Blog posts 2006-10-25
- Behind Rocketboom's breakup fireworks
- Behind Rocketboom's breakup fireworksCornerstone of the New MediaWhether she likes it or not, and hopefully she does and sounds like she might, Amanda certainly IS the face of the new media. A wunderkind of video blogging. Not the first, but certainly a pace-setter. If she is able...
- Tags: Blogging, Rocketboom
- Discussion threads 2006-07-13
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
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- News to know: Salesforce and Google; LiveMesh; Cloud computing; Linux
- Notable headlines: Phil Wainewright: Salesforce and Google team to conquer the enterprise Garett Rogers: Google announces SalesForce integration with Google Apps Techmeme Mary Jo Foley: The big reveal: Live Mesh Statement: Blockbuster proposes to buy Circuit City ...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Data Center, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Storage, Operating Systems, Hardware, Data Management, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- John Edwards already pushing the edge of YouTube campaign
- In 2006, political campaigns got hip to YouTube, with every campaign following its opponent around with video cameras, hoping to generate another "Macaca" moment - pure political gold in which a leading candidate says something so incredibly stupid and racist that everyone knows he just threw a victory away. ...
- Tags: Blogging, YouTube Inc., John Edwards, blogger
- Blog posts 2007-01-08
- TechCrunch's Arrington shares his winners and losers
- TechCruncher Mike Arrington opened the second day of The Future of Web Apps Summit with his picks of Web 2.0 winners and losers and gives advice to wouldbe startups. He also announced the next blog in the TechCrunch family, which will cover enterprise products. Winners got acquired: Writely, del.icio.us, Userplane,...
- Tags: Web 2.0 Winners, loser, TechCrunch
- Blog posts 2006-09-14
- Web 2.0 on a shoestring: What bubble?
- Web 2.0 is not a heady financial bubble ready to burst, it is a hot air hype balloon ready to deflate.The cost-free ease by which 20-something weekend software developers hatch colorful, lightweight, cool apps ready-made for the colorful, lightweight, cool TechCrunch spotlight yields a dizzying parade of often indistinguishable Web...
- Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Kiko
- Blog posts 2006-08-24
- Web 2.0 dreaming: get rich quick, or fail trying
- In “Rocketboom: Web 2.0 'success' on $20 a day?” I reflect on society’s desire to count on a “get rich quick” American dream success story, rather than to work towards a “hard earned dollar.”As every American is born with the unalienable right to the ‘pursuit of happiness,’ and we often...
- Tags: Kiko, Y Combinator, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2006-08-19
- 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
- Web 2.0 'no money down' model: heady, not bubbly
- The latimes.com piece today (reg. required), “Fears of Dot-Com Crash, Version 2.0” asks: “Is the bubble about to burst — again?”Data put forth in the piece, however, seems to suggest today’s Internet landscape does not reflect a bubble situation:One key difference is that the volume of venture investment is much...
- Tags: Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2006-07-17
- 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
- All Along the Watchtower
- All Along the WatchtowerHendrix-bio?What's the title?With Age Comes Wisdom...Steve,As the money starts to appear for [v/b]logging, the issues of failed partnerships seem to emerge: Adam C./Dave W., Amanda C./Andrew B.Partnerships start with the best of intentions but they are tested overtime and divorces are more common than life long pairings.Amanda...
- Tags: Business structures, Blake, Andrew, Watchtower
- Discussion threads 2006-07-10
- All Along the Watchtower
- Where to begin...First, I'm chatting with Dan Farber about what's going on this coming week. He mentions Mashup Camp on Wednesday and Thursday, which I'm registered for, and a Sun announcement on Tuesday, which I'm not. Sun continues to befuddle me: its CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, lists this blog on his...
- Tags: Dave
- Blog posts 2006-07-09
- 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
- 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
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