Posts from August 2005

While at a cafe on Friday afternoon I experienced a new use for TypePad. I was at Ritual Coffee Roasters in the Mission district of San Francisco Friday afternoon when I noticed a gentleman transferring notes from a notepad to entries on his TypePad blog. His girlfriend is currently in Africa as a humanitarian aid worker and he created a password-protected TypePad blog to keep in touch. Blogging had replaced e-mail as their most reliable form of communication. How do you communicate with someone when you are unsure when they will have access to the Internet in one form or...

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Technorati is sponsoring dinner and drinks -- free as in beer -- tonight, August 20, at Gordon Biersch in Palo Alto from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. The event coincides with the nearby BarCamp event nearby. If you are in the Palo Alto area I hope you can join us tomorrow night for some garlic fries, beer, and many interesting people in downtown Palo Alto. Tags: barcamp, paloalto...

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Mena Trott just announced a new license structure for Movable Type 3.2: "all users will be entitled to unlimited weblogs. This goes for free users, as well." Six Apart's current pricing structure allows an unpaid user of Movable Type up to 3 weblogs with unlimited weblog licenses available for a Personal Basic license fee of $70. The change makes sense as it allows Six Apart to track all of its licenses based on the number of authors. Tags: movabletype...

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Last night's geek dinner brought together a variety of people from the world of blogging. I enjoy sitting at a table with a group of people I have not met before and learning about how they meet their personal or business goals by creating or reading blogs. I spoke with a woman in charge of web content for the nation's largest ball bearing company. She is using blogs to help her company communicate better with its suppliers and differentiate themselves from the competitive market. I always joked about how some day people would use blogs to sell even small things...

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About 50 geeks plan to attend tomorrow's night's dinner at Henry Hunan in downtown San Francisco. We will have a mini-blogging conference over spicy noodles. Dinner starts around 6:30 and the restaurant closes at 9 p.m. I plan to have the restaurant divide our large group into about 5 separate bills, or one bill for each table of approximately ten people. If you or a friend would still like to attend please feel free to join us even if you can only stay for some dumplings. Henry's Hunan Restaurant 110 Natoma Street 6:30 p.m. Tags: blogbusinesssummit, geekdinner, hunan...

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B.L. Ochman was given a tip from a venture capitalist that Technorati is about to be sold "to a large search company." I immediately thought of The Simpsons' Kent Brockman from the Deep Space Homer episode in season 5. You can watch the 4.7 MB video clip of the ant overlords and have a good Friday. As for the rumor? No comment but I hope any company interested in search and using Technorati's services will check out the Technorati developer APIs to get a better idea of how they might be able to work with Technorati and its underlying data....

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Odeo just announced a funding round led by Charles River Ventures and joined by Amicus Ventures and 14 individual investors. Individual investors Emanuele Angelidis Francesco Caio Ron Conway James Hong Don Hutchinson Mitch Kapor Josh Kopelman Joe Kraus Mike Maples Tim O'Reilly Dave Pell Ariel Poler Barbara Poggiali Ed Zschau No word yet on the total amount investor or who sits on the board. Tags: odeo, podcasting...

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There will be so many interesting people in San Francisco next week for the Blog Business Summit we need to have an informal dinner to mix and mingle. Let's get together at Henry's Hunan in downtown San Francisco next Wednesday, August 17, starting at 6:30 p.m. Henry's Hunan is located at 110 Natoma Street only one block from Blog Business Summit at the Palace Hotel. Please leave a comment below or contact me if you plan to attend so I can coordinate with the restaurant. Please plan for a cost of around $20 with drinks or $15 without. The restaurant...

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PodShow has received $8.85 million dollars in venture capital from Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers according to today's Private Equity Week Wire. The board is currently comprised of John Doerr and Ray Lane from KPCB, Jerry Newman of Bear Stearns, and angel investor Ram Shriram. PodShow was created by Ron Bloom and Adam Curry last year. The PodShow strategy podcast from April provides more information on the company and how they plan to expand. (financing tip via Jeff Clavier) This investment is a big deal for podcasting and user-generated distributed media. I have not really been following...

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I was searching Google this morning and I noticed some new links under the top search result. I was searching for FTP software Transmit and I noticed four screenshots immediately below the search result for transmit. How interesting! People searching for Transmit can immediately view screenshots of the application. A search for Technorati reveals a few chosen links within Technorati's many web pages as well. So what's going on? My guess is Google is experimenting with ways of surfacing multiple results within the same domain. We currently see this exposure of up to four links for the top search result...

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