Business In B.E.D. with TechCrunch - literally... Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus. A pure TechCrunch goodness has descended on New York on this rainy evening. Ignoring the rain, hundreds of web 2.0 fans, venture capitalists and sponsors rushed to the sought after New York venue called B.E.D. The venue is famous for serving out-of-this-world food to lavish and spoiled… Alex Iskold View comments
New Media Demand Media aims to Capitalize on Web Content Bambi Francisco from MarketWatch has an interesting interview with Richard Rosenblatt of Demand Media. Rosenblatt was chairman of MySpace at the time it was sold to News Corp and it appears as if he's aiming just as big with Demand Media. According to MarketWatch: "Rosenblatt has raised more than $200 million in the past few months, giving… Richard MacManus View comments
Microsoft Gates on Next 10 Years - Microsoft wants to be OS for Entertainment Bill Gates spoke yesterday at the TechNet event at Stanford University. Here are his thoughts on what changes IT will make in society over the next 10 years: "Changes are now coming faster than ever. We'll be seeing more and more students using tablets instead of stacks of books in schools and in online learning. We'll have computers… Richard MacManus View comments
E-Commerce uGenie: Meta-Middleman for Online Shopping While I was in San Francisco, I met up with uGenie co-founder and President Harish Abbott. uGenie is a comparison shopping service that not only finds the best price on a single product, but on groups of products which it calls a 'bundle'. uGenie computes the bottom-line price (including shipping, taxes, and discounts) and claims to "find the… Richard MacManus View comments
New Media About.com: The King of SEO While at the Web 2.0 Summit last week I caught up with About.com CEO Scott Meyer. About.com is the long-standing network of how-to websites, purchased in March 2005 by the New York Times Company for $410 Million. Since that time About.com has continued to flourish - it has 31 Million people visiting it each month and according to Scott Meyer it has… Richard MacManus View comments