Investments

Earlier this week, Gnip put v2.0 of their service into production.  TechCrunch has a nice post up titled Gnip 2.0 Launches, With A Business Model.  Gnip 2.0 has four big

Congrats to Josh Hug and the gang at Shelfari for joining the Amazon.com family.  I was an early angel investor in Shelfari and have been a long time avid user

Fred Wilson – my friend and co-investor in Zynga – titled his post on Zynga’s $29 million financing Raising The Stakes so I couldn’t resist titling my post Doubling Down. 

Who said the magic of Facebook is wearing thin?  Nah.  Cynics. One of our investments – Zynga – helped a nice young couple (Tyler Richardson and his (now) fiancee Christine)

One of the questions I’ve been asked numerous times since Gnip launched a few weeks ago is "when is Gnip going to start working with Twitter?"  The answer is: today.

Wallstrip 2.0 is out.  Fortunately, channeling the voice of the founder Howard Lindzon, they announce it very sarcastically on the homepage.  Welcome to Wallstrip 2.0, where everything is ha

Last week, Me.dium released its Alpha version of Me.dium Social Search.  This coincided with Yahoo!’s launch of BOSS – Me.dium was one of the initial launch partners.  This was p

I’ve heard from several people that NetNewsWire on the iPhone is awesome.  While I’m not a Mac user, I’m anxiously awaiting my new iPhone (Ross promises that I’ll have it

I’ve been really pleased with the way NewsGator’s widget business has taken off.  Two years ago I regularly got questions from people about "how would NewsGator monetize the cons

Earlier this year we made a seed investment in a new company called Gnip.  Yesterday, Gnip launched their first service – a free centralized callback server that notifies data consumers