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Venture Capital's Hidden Calamity October 03, 2007

This is a bad time to be a venture capitalist. Anyone who says different is raising a new fund—or works at one of the few firms having a good year. Sure, the ...

What MySpace-Facebook Rivalry? October 19, 2007

Into the wee hours of the morning on Oct. 18, News Corp.'s (NWS) MySpace treated Silicon Valley's elite to a very L.A.-style party at the San Francisco Museum of ...

Beckoning Boomers to the Web November 05, 2007

In the summer of 2006 my inbox was flooded with pitches from new Web companies hoping to bring some of the MySpace (NWS) magic to the largest and most neglected ...

A Kiss-Off to Online Dating November 20, 2007

Dear Online Dating Sites, I am writing to tell you it's over between us. It's not you. You've been great. You've helped me connect millions of happy couples and no one...

LiveJournal Sale May Revive Six Apart December 03, 2007

Don't be fooled by the lack of pomp surrounding the sale of LiveJournal. Late in the afternoon on Dec. 2, a little-known Russian company named SUP said it was buying ...

Big Shoes to Fill at Adobe December 10, 2007

A little more than a year ago an exhausted Bruce Chizen was just landing in Barcelona. He'd been on a plane all night and, despite the rigorous travel schedule ...

Paris Is No Silicon Valley Yet December 20, 2007

My trip to Paris last week did not go smoothly. For starters, I could never quite adjust to the time change. Then my bank froze my debit card for several days because ...

New Year's Resolutions for Web 2.0 January 08, 2008

My husband and I spent Christmas on a beach in Mexico. Amid piña coladas and fish tacos, I thought I should do something responsible, like make some New Year's ...

Why We Should Mourn Yahoo February 11, 2008

To say that a lot has already been written about Microsoft's (MSFT) proposed Yahoo! (YHOO) takeover would be understatement in the extreme. But I'm offering my two ...

New York Comes to Silicon Valley February 26, 2008

The relationship between the venture capitalists of Sand Hill Road and the securities firms and power investors of Wall Street has long been a cozy one. VCs hoping for...

SXSW: Not Much to Twitter About March 13, 2008

I'm just back from four days in sunny Austin, Tex., where I attended the South by Southwest Interactive Conference and conducted an on-stage keynote interview with ...

Something to Yelp About April 07, 2008

Don't be fooled by Jeremy Stoppelman's persona. The barely-30 CEO of local-review site Yelp may exude the Web 2.0 ethos, sporting jeans and T-shirts about town, ...

Web Startups: The London Scene April 21, 2008

Baby-faced British entrepreneur Ian Hogarth stands in a semi-cluttered loftlike space describing the up-and-coming East London warehouse district that's home to his ...

Israeli Tech Sends Mixed Messages May 15, 2008

I got conflicting signals from the doctor I visited during a recent trip to Israel. I had come down with bronchitis while abroad and sought a physician to make sure I ...

Getting Found Out, Web 2.0 Style June 17, 2008

The other night I was watching a clip from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the iconic teen movie of my generation. It's the scene where Ferris and Cameron are at the Cubs ...

On-Demand Computing: A Brutal Slog July 18, 2008

The Internet revolutionized the distribution of software—perhaps a bit too much. The Web brought a new, cheaper method for getting software into the hands of ...

Don't Cry for Us, Silicon Valley August 01, 2008

There are so few women running technology companies that when one steps down, it's inevitable that we women in Silicon Valley will be confronted by hand-wringing over ...

Book Publishers: Learn From Digg, Yelp Even Gawker August 21, 2008

Amazon.com's Kindle electronic reader has come a long way since its late 2007 debut was met with mixed reviews, some derisive. Who could forget the moment at last ...

Blogging: In Praise of Small September 24, 2008

Anyone who thinks the blogosphere isn't big hasn't been paying attention. Blogging has moved far beyond a hobbyist phenomenon and proved itself a legitimate news force...

What Will the Crisis Mean for Venture Capital? October 09, 2008

In the lingo familiar to the kids toiling away at Web startups, the U.S. financial system is on the verge of an epic fail. The same may soon be said of many of the ...