As I wander around in my own little virtual universe, I lovingly look for all the ways the various content I create gets wired together.  I have a twitter account, a blog (well – several), and am using Intense Debate for my comment system of my blog. The Intense Debate guys just did a neat […]

If you are curious about the progress our investment in Zynga is making, Inside Facebook has a good blog post up titled Looking for the next big thing?  Social gaming startups heating up.  Zynga was founded last summer and has had incredible acceleration since it began (hint – the reach numbers are low – we […]

The TechStars 2008 Applications are now open.  Last year we had 302 applications and accepted 10 companies.  8 of the 10 companies are now either financed or profitable and several have received acquisition offers.  If you apply before March 3rd, you are invited to come to our TechStars for a Day program. We are having […]

We recently made another Foundry Group investment in the Zynga Game Network.  Brad Stone wrote a great article about Zynga in the NYTimes about it titled More Than Games, a Net to Snare Social Networkers. One of my co-investors – Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures – wrote a nice overview of how he came […]

Now that I use 267 different social networking tools, I’m confused.  I’ve got so many different "friends", but I don’t know how to differentiate between them. My "friend" Dave Nolastnamesogoogledoesntindexme recently asked me if I have seen any moves toward private hierarchies of relationships.  Specifically he (and I) want to categorize my "friends" into a […]

Facebook.  MySpace.  LinkedIn.  Plaxo.  Gmail.  Email Contacts.  Bebo.  Every individual social networking software product that I use (Dogster, Shelfari, …) Oh how I friend thee.  Let me count the ways. I’m already seeing "predictions for 2008" that it will be the year of "friend consolidation."  How exciting. Phase 1 (of at least 10) is starting […]

Upon my return from a week off the grid, I was slaughtered by Facebook invites, LinkedIn invites, and an endless stream of unread blog posts.  It only took me 75 minutes of my morning routine to get through all of them.  The most entertaining ones had parallel structure to them: "you are my friend on […]

Feel free to ignore this post.  Or – you can just laugh at the picture of a bunch of lame people trying to play Rock Band (the only one who wasn’t lame was the singer.) However, I think there will likely be a reunion tour, much to Katherine‘s chagrin. If you were wondering why Facebook’s […]

I’m completely baffled.  Yesterday, Saul Hansell of the New York Times had an article titled Inbox 2.0: Yahoo and Google to Turn E-Mail Into a Social Network.  Saul’s article is short and punchy, but excruciatingly obvious to anyone that has been playing with email for a while. The amount of "social network" information contained in […]