My long-time virtual friend Miki Saxon has finally started blogging at MAPping Company Success. She labels herself quite a Luddite, and tends to be very resistant to new technology. Of course, I”ve always found that incredibly ironic, since she and I have only known each other virtually, and some of my first interaction with her [...]

Following up on my draft post on ”Business Models for User-Generated Media”, I wrote some notes on this morning’’s iBreakfast.
Shawn Gold, SVP, MySpace: Marketing in a Networked Culture
MySpace has 100m users projected by july
84m registered users, 2m new registered users per week (size of Houston), 48m unique visitors per month in US
2nd most popular site [...]

Tomorrow morning I”ll be speaking at http://ibreakfast.com/ on Business Models in User Generated Media. I have attached a DRAFT of my talk below. I”d be grateful for any feedback readers might have. In particular, I”m trying to get rough revenue estimates for each of the categories below.
Business Models for
User Generated Media (UGM)
(Thank you [...]

I”m happy to report that, after two years of successful partnership, I have sold Teten Executive Recruiting to Accolo. I”ll be continuing in my current role running Nitron Advisors, which is a separate company. Here’’s the press release:

Press Release
For Immediate Release
June 21, 2006

Accolo acquires Teten [...]

UPDATE: The results have been published and the survey is now closed.
In The Virtual Handshake, we focus mostly on the development of trust over time by building personal relationships. But millions of transactions go on every day between complete strangers. In some cases, one or both parties are large businesses with established reputations, but [...]

I”ll be visiting the Bay Area July 9-12 (and maybe later). I hope that people with relevant Internet background will join us at the dinner below.
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Seeking E-Commerce / Search Experts for San Francisco Hedge Fund Dinner
July 10, 2006
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We are organizing a dinner for E-Commerce / Internet Experts to talk with hedge fund investors interested [...]

My colleague Scott Lichtman took some detailed notes on the TieCONEast panel last week on Trends in Online Networks and Social Software.
Participants:
ANGELA BIEVER

Angela Biever is Managing Director for the Consumer Internet sector within Intel Capital, Intel’s corporate venturing organization. She assumed this role in early 2006. Angela’s team recently invested [...]

Great story in the NY Times on a very active—and passionate–Yahoo! group for moms in the LA area, Peachhead. This is an example of how non-technical people for non-technical purposes are heavy users of an online community—and the small orbit of businesses around that community that are benefiting from this activity.

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Eric Shahinian wrote some detailed notes on last night’’s panel on “Are You Googling Your Privacy Away?” for the New York County Lawyers’ Association / Cyberspace Law Committee.
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Mark Grossman, Partner, Dewitt Grossman, P.L.

(To stay current with tech law issues, ask Mark Grossman to add you to his mailing newsletter. His email is mgrossman (at) [...]

I”ll be speaking at this event, and I hope that you can join us:
MYSPACE & USER GENERATED MEDIA
Friday, June 23, 2006, 7:30am - 10:00am
New York, Cresa Executive Center - 100 Park Ave. at 41st. St.

SPEAKERS:
Shawn Gold, MySpace
Shelly Palmer, Advanced Media Ventures Group
David Teten, NitronAdvisors
How to Profit from “Media Disrupted”. The fastest gowing media [...]