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Paul Kedrosky points to a Financial Times piece on bloggers and niche job boards. A niche job board was something that I first saw by way of 37signals, but very soon a number of influential bloggers had started their own job boards with the help of companies like SimplyHired and JobThread.

I have blogged frequently about Lijit on my life science blog. Lijit is a Colorado based company and recently raised a round of funding. Recently I got a chance to meet Stan James, the CTO of Lijit, and Andy Stanberry, the UI guru at the company, at Gnomedex where we got a chance [...]

At Gnomedex, Gregg Spiridellis, the “Jib” in JibJab talked about how JibJab has evolved from a low volume, high risk content creation company, to a platform that enables the long tail of content creation and distribution. They recently launched Starring You, which allows users to create their own content on top of storylines/shorts created [...]

Today I had the pleasure of chatting with Robert Scoble (and many others) on his Kyte channel. Previously I had wondered where Kyte would fit into the grand scheme of things, but after the last couple of days, I agree with Scoble; Kyte is very disruptive. The fact that you can embed your [...]

Not the usual fare on TechBizMedia, but too good to pass up. Om Malik is an idol of ours. From his roots in India, to his quality as a journalist and blogger, one could say that TechBizMedia owes its existence to Om. So it’s good to see that he will now have [...]

I am sure you’ve seen this in most business 101 type books and articles. If you have no competition, you might need to rethink if you are in the appropriate business. But what if you have some competition? One of the first things I learnt as a product manager was never to [...]

Can you create a fully functioning startup in 54 hours? Adam Rubenstein was one of those who got to participate in Startup Weekend, an event that aimed to do just that. What was startup weekend all about? From Adam’s post

The success of Facebook is well known to most people. But Facebook is not the only social networking service that has been seeing bright times in recent days. Ning, a social networking company started by Marc Andreessen and Gina Bianchini announced Series C funding of $44 million.

A popular debate around the blogsphere has always been if blogs should have comments or not. Today, Marc Andreessen adds to that debate by removing comments from his blog. Personally I have always believed that without comments, in general, a blog loses out since so much discussion happens in the comment section. [...]

Fascinating story in Wired about a hand-written paper facing a digital future. Many people I know from South Asia appreciate the beauty of Urdu calligraphy, even if most of us cannot understand it. The story highlights one of the challenges facing us as we move into an increasingly digital world. The story showed [...]