Deeje Cooley of RSS News points to a PaidContent.org post stating that Six Apart (famous for TypePad and MoveableType) is closing their Series B round; lead investor is August Capital. Hmm… getting the strong feeling that I’m missing this wave……

Jason Calcanis breaks the news (via John Batelle’s Web 2.0 conference) that Yahoo has given its blessing to Overture ads in RSS feeds. Unfortunately, as I wasn’t there, I don’t know if that means Ads In Feed Posts or Ad…

Way off topic, but its my blog, so wtf. Very little coverage of Rodney on the blogs I read; makes sense I guess, since most are focused on the tech industry & politics. But so as to not let him…

Amazingly, not everyone was at Battelle’s Web 2.0 conference this week. Some of us were enjoying a rousing webcast put on by the Media Center. Lucky for you, you can read my write-up and click-through to listen on your own!…

Roland Tanglao points to a post from David Temkin, founder of Laszlo, stating that Laszlo has changed its business model and has just gone open source. This on the same day that Macromedia announced free non-commercial licensing of Flex; imagine…

Good news. If you’ve got a non-commercial (or perhaps, pre-commercial) use for Flex — Macromedia’s solution for building rich web apps on top of Flash — you will soon be able to get a free license.

Having talked extensively with Google and Yahoo (and spent some time with the good folks at SME Global Solutions et al) about Local Search and its relationship with (online) newspapers & directories, I feel like I could write a book…

I met Stuart MacFarlane on July 1st (2004) when Andy Wilson (formerly SVP Global Product Management, Overture Services… now Managing Director, Momentum Venture Management) invited me to join Stu and him for lunch. Terms like “great guy”, “brilliant”, “passionate” and…

Yesterday, I posted that Yahoo’s Local Search offering had gone gold, but that it wasn’t drafting off the main Yahoo search box (at yahoo.com). I was corrected by a poster over on John Battelle’s blog, who said that it worked…

If you’ve got the time (i.e., you’re not going to Battelle’s Web 2.0 conference, like me), this should be an interesting event. Event Description & Free Registration (link)