Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing

June 2007 - Posts

• 01:28 PM Tuesday, June 26, 2007
  Jun 26 Tue

  Lijit and Me.dium gain VC funding - Colorado is an emerging startup center

  Lijit, the search widget for blogs, and Me.dium, a friend activity tracker, both closed rounds of funding this week. Lijit and Me.dium are both based in Colorado, home of Brad Feld , and up and coming startup hub. Brad was the seed backer of both companies. Read More...
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• 12:09 PM Sunday, June 24, 2007
  Jun 24 Sun

  Search Engine Innovations story from The New York Times

  The New York Times, Sunday Edition, has a story " The Human Touch That May Loosen Google's Grip ". The NYT writer sets up the notion that Google can be toppled by using a quote from my earlier post " Why 1% of search market share is worth over $1 Billion Read More...
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• 12:59 PM Friday, June 22, 2007
  Jun 22 Fri

  I've got 400,000 users of my widget - Now what?

  Widgets are the coolest thing now. I nsideFacebook has a story today about a guy who built a "Where I've Been" map widget that has attracted 400,000 Facebook users. Now he is struggling to pay for servers and bandwidth...with no revenue stream. he has Read More...
  Filed under: Lijit

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• 12:20 PM Friday, June 22, 2007
  Jun 22 Fri

  Vista more secure than Linux, Apple OSX, and Windows XP

  Jeff Jones, Director of Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft, has released a very detailed report comparing the vulnerabilities reported and fixed, in the first 6 months after release, of each of the major operating systems. Vista is the most secure operating Read More...
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• 05:11 PM Thursday, June 21, 2007
  Jun 21 Thu

  Silverlight on Linux - Miguel de Icaza's project Moonlight

  Miguel de Icaza, Open Source developer of Mono, has turned his attention to working with Silverlight on Linux. Miguel and his team worked 21 straight days to build a demo of Silverlight on Linux for the Mix07 Paris show going on now in the city of lights. Read More...
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• 01:25 PM Monday, June 18, 2007
  Jun 18 Mon

  Microsoft - a friend to startups

  My job at Microsoft is to help startups be successful by building a partnership with Microsoft. Today at Joel on Software a contributor wrote about his experience as a one person startup and how Microsoft helped him get going. Here is a snippet from his Read More...
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• 11:23 AM Monday, June 18, 2007
  Jun 18 Mon

  Chuck Thacker, Butler Lampson, Jim Gray - Legends in their own time

  Chuck Thacker , Microsoft Research Labs, was just awarded the IEEE John von Neumann award for outstanding achievement in computer science. The prize is given annually by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The group cited Thacker Read More...
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• 12:05 PM Wednesday, June 13, 2007
  Jun 13 Wed

  Widget Metrix from ComScore

  ComScore has announced Widget Metrix , a new service to track the usage of widgets on web sites and blogs. What are widgets? I have several examples of widgets on my blog; things like Lijit (search), MyBlogLog (readers photos), Feedburner (subscriptions) Read More...
  Filed under: Lijit

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• 01:45 PM Tuesday, June 12, 2007
  Jun 12 Tue

  ReMIX07 - MIX Las Vegas moves to Silicon Valley

  MIX07 in Las Vegas was sold out with rave reviews . Over 3,000 designers and developers attended MIX07 in Las Vegas, and many more wanted to attend. Now you have another chance to attend a condensed one day version of MIX in Silicon Valley on June 22nd. Read More...
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• 02:59 PM Saturday, June 09, 2007
  Jun 09 Sat

  Marc Andreessen on Venture Capital

  Marc Andreessen, of Netscape fame, is writing a blog. Today he wrote " The Truth About Venture Capitalists " which explains how the VC business works, what types of businesses should take VC money, and how VCs decide which companies to invest in. I have Read More...
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• 12:25 PM Thursday, June 07, 2007
  Jun 07 Thu

  LiveDeal takes classified ads Hyper-Local

  YP Corp. (OTCBB:YPNT), a provider Internet Yellow Pages announced it has acquired LiveDeal , Inc., a website for online local classifieds and Yellow Pages marketplaces. The deal is worth approximately $12M. SearchEngineLand says " Classifieds is the third Read More...
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• 10:54 AM Wednesday, June 06, 2007
  Jun 06 Wed

  Clearspring - widgets with a business model for content owners

  Clearspring , a widget distribution company, just signed a big deal to be the exclusive widget platform for NBC. Widgets are tiny applications that can be pasted into a web site, blog, or personal page. I have several examples of widgets on my blog; things Read More...
  Filed under: Lijit

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• 10:37 AM Friday, June 01, 2007
  Jun 01 Fri

  Windows Live - Writer, Mail, Messenger - new releases

  Windows Live has new beta releases of Windows Live Writer , Windows Live Mail , and Windows Live Messenger . I have been using all three for a while now, and they are all rock solid and ready for prime time. In fact, I am using Windows Live Writer to Read More...
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