We announced this morning that Powered, Inc. has acquired crayon – here’s the official press release http://bit.ly/4rIR1q. We’re very excited about this merger and where it takes us, especially as the roll-up also includes two other great companies, Drillteam and StepChange.
I’ve been really impressed by the team at Revision3 this year and their commitment to great content and the way that commitment comes from the leadership on down. This is a good interview with Rev3 founder, Kevin Rose (by Sarah Lacy), on what’s next for Digg, what’s interesting to him at TC50 and what happened [...]
When I checked into my Google Reader this morning, I immediately saw a couple of nw things. The first (seen here on a post from Daring Fireball) was that 14 people had “liked” this post, with a link added at the bottom to “like” something too. Very Facebook.
Yeah TechCrunch featured it, but as usual with anything of value lately, I found this through John Gruber’s Daring Fireball. Pinboard, which calls itself the social bookmarking site for introverts (or the anti-social book marking site) has come out of beta – it’s what Delicious was before Yahoo bought it and put it in developer hell. [...]
I’ve been having some issues with Social Days because of a plugin I was testing – it corrupted a bunch of stuff and I was unable to access drafts, some plugins or upgrade WP at all. So I exported and was able to set up everything as good as new on a MediaTemple account I’ve had for testing. This did not come as easy as hoped, due to some sleepy stupidity on my part.
Just FYI – I wrote a post on the Semantic Web for our company’s blog here. Please feel free to read and comment.
Thanks to my FriendFeed, I saw a blog entry from Fred Wilson about Disqus.
Jeff Jarvis in his BuzzMachine post today discusses his Guardian article about Gary Vaynerchuk.
I’ve been using Mahalo, Jason Calacanis’s “people-powered” search engine for about 5 months – and am really enjoying it.
