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It’s not quite a chicken and egg syndrome, but the question is: Do People lead to Content or does Content lead to People? I think both are equally true, but the novelty is coming from the later statement- Content leading to People. People Leading to Content You meet someone or you come across a person [...]

  I’ve been wanting to frame in one picture the current phase of the Internet’s evolution: the Social Internet. I drew this Infographic as a way to see the social Internet’s landscape in one place, to spark a discussion about its ecosystem, and to prove that there is a lot more than ‘social media’ and [...]

One of the curation players that allows “anyone” to be a publisher by “creating” their own newspaper by selecting a combination of Facebook or Twitter lists, accounts, hashtags or keywords is making additional marketing noise about a couple of new curation features. They have indeed lowered the barriers of publishing, but is it such a [...]

A well respected VC friend of mine recently asked me this pointed question: why is this social reader start-up (which shall remain nameless) receiving massive hype? I was quick to respond as follows:“How many RSS readers were there between 2000 and 2006: 40 or 50? How many viable ones are there today: 1 or 2? [...]

Any hype period has its share of buzzwords. Curation is one of those buzzwords today. It’s probably one of the most used, misused and abused words when it comes to discussing the future of news and digital content. The flurry of curation platforms has amplified the attention on the act of curation itself. But curation [...]

I’m surprised that many people believe the only way to get their news now is via social media. There’s this notion that if you use personal readers to surface the most popular stuff, you’re covered. Well, if your job is to be led, you will be led. You will be led where your friends are [...]

Twitter, Facebook and social media allow users to snoop on each other’s social graphs and see what they are reading. I’ve been doing that, as I was comparing some of the products that surface popular stories from friends and followers. What I’m seeing is that we’re all reading the same thing. What’s popular is rising [...]

Image via Wikipedia Following the technology Venture Capital space, what VC’s say and how their firms rank is fascinating, especially for me: I’m starting the process for an early stage round of finance. Recently, two respectable rankings caught my attention. First Larry Cheng at Fidelity Ventures published the Global VC Blog Directory, as ranked by [...]

Twitter is ushering an unprecedented wave of innovation, not seen since the early days of the Internet.