Joining Polaris Ventures Partners
August 2, 2009 – 5:28 pm | Comments

I am excited to announce that, starting Monday, I will be joining Polaris Venture Partners and will work out of the Dog Patch Lab on Pier 38. Over the last few years, I have had …

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Dogpatch Labs Video Tour on VentureBeat
February 28, 2010 – 12:47 pm | Comments
Dogpatch Labs Video Tour on VentureBeat

Earlier this week, Dogpatch Labs was featured on VentureBeat. Assistant Editor Anthony Ha visited Dogpatch Labs San Francisco, met several of the entrepreneurs / teams, and sat down for an short tour and interview.
In the …

Bitly + Twitter Has Driven 350,000 views to Youtube’s JK Wedding
July 26, 2009 – 5:28 pm | Comments
Bitly + Twitter Has Driven 350,000 views to Youtube’s JK Wedding

In less than a week, Youtube’s hit video “JK Wedding Entrance Dance” has been viewed over seven million times (and nearly 1.5m times in the last 24 hours).
So what does that look like on …

Tweetmeme’s Meteoric Rise Reveals Twitter’s Search Issue
June 8, 2009 – 8:51 pm | Comments
Tweetmeme’s Meteoric Rise Reveals Twitter’s Search Issue

Techmeme has become one my primary navigational sources for daily reading / news (others include email, Google RSS, Facebook, NYTimes, TechCrunch, etc). Twitter isn’t yet there because it is simply too noisy to be efficient. …

Introducing TechNews (http://news.ryanspoon.com)
February 22, 2009 – 3:01 pm | Comments
Introducing TechNews (http://news.ryanspoon.com)

Introducing http://news.ryanspoon.com – I encourage you to test it out!
About a year ago, I weened myself off of Digg (at least partially) and moved onto Hacker News. Hacker News is the best mix of technology …

Comparing Yahoo Buzz and Digg After Hitting Buzz’s Homepage
August 23, 2008 – 9:27 pm | Comments

In March, I wrote that Yahoo Buzz could pose a threat to Digg because of their ability to drive more traffic – and I assumed that Digg’s product would be markedly better.
Now four days …

Why iGoogle is About to Be Game Changing – For Google and for Us
May 29, 2008 – 9:12 pm | Comments

A couple months ago, I had the following email exchange with one of the sharpest, big internet-thinkers I know. I thought very little of the discussion until the past few days. Speaking about iGoogle:
…My …

Should Facebook Acquire FriendFeed, Twitter and/or Digg?
May 24, 2008 – 1:07 pm | Comments

Over the last few years – in *numerous* settings – I have heard different variations of the following: “Why should we build it internally when we can let it be proven elsewhere… and either build …

The Front Page Effect – Why I’d Rather Be on Techmeme than Digg, Mixx, etc
May 11, 2008 – 8:55 am | Comments

On Friday, I had my first Techmeme ‘headline’ and it offered the chance to compare what I refer to as “The Front Page Effect” – what happens when your website / article appears on the …

A Year in Digg Headlines – Charting the Trends from 2006-2008
May 5, 2008 – 6:21 pm | Comments

I’ve added The StatBot to my must-read blogroll – they put together some fascinating analysis and statistics across top web 2.0 sites… oh yeah, it’s done by a 17 year old “wannabe geek from India”. …

New SocialFeed Widget (…Your FriendFeed Widget-ized)
May 1, 2008 – 11:15 am | Comments

Yesterday Scoble unveiled his new blog theme and the resounding feedback among the 150+ comments was positive… and how’d he create that FriendFeed widget?
For those web 2.0 users, Widgetbox has a new widget that aggregates …

This is what Happens When You Hit Digg’s Homepage…
March 23, 2008 – 3:44 pm | Comments

SportsWrap had a post reach #1 on Digg’s homepage… And this is the result:

Battling for the Homepage: What is your Start Page?
March 23, 2008 – 11:44 am | Comments

I’ve had a few interesting email exchanges in the past week about start pages. One friend of mine recently converted to Netvibes – the other switched to iGoogle… and both made the switch from …