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When to pull the plug on a startup

Owen Thomas — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:20:00 EST

Tough times, easy decisions. How can you tell if a startup's founder has too much time on her hands? When she is spending time impersonating cats on Twitter.

Bloggers fight hidden agenda with hidden agenda

Owen Thomas — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:20:20 EDT

Dear Dabble founder Mary Hodder: Please stop pestering my writers to blog opinion pieces about boring tech conference politics, but without mentioning your name. Why don't you just post on your own site, in place of the links to "Sexy bikini girls?" That seems easier.

"Putting the 'We' in Web": Newsweek gets it!

ndouglas — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:01:24 EST

About this Newsweek cover story — can we all share a moment of glee? Newsweek really gets the new web! Writers Steven Levy and Brad Stone score major points for:

¬ Gently mocking video sharing site Dabble for still being pre-launch
¬ Getting over the term "Web 2.0" in about ten words
¬ Hinting that everyone in this article has met each other — and probably went to the SXSW Flickr-Upcoming -del.icio.us party.
¬ Calling Google's Eric Schmidt "cryptic" and leaving it at that, thanks

But most importantly, Levy and Stone slipped in this quote from Yahoo exec (and blogger) Bradley Horowitz:

With less than 10 people on the payroll, they had millions of users generating content [...] and thousands of people not on the payroll actually building the thing. That's a neat trick.

In other words, "Oh man, these suckers work for fun."

The New Wisdom of the Web [Newsweek]
Earlier: Who's who in Newsweek's "Putting the 'We' in Web" [Valleywag]

Who's who in Newsweek's "Putting the 'We' in Web"

ndouglas — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:53:42 EST

Everyone knows that Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield were made for pretty photos. Flickr's founding couple does a great job sexing up the cover of the latest Newsweek as the poster children for the new feel of the Net. In case you missed the last three years of what Newsweek calls "the Living Web," here's an intro to the cast.

Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake: Founded Flickr, a photo-sharing site. Sold to Yahoo. Current occupation: showing that Yahoo can nurture the Flickr brand.
Joshua Schachter: Founded social bookmarking site del.icio.us. Also sold to Yahoo. Current occupation: reminding people where those dots go.
Mary Hodder: Founded Dabble, a video-sharing site. Current occupation: hopefully pulling Dabble out of private beta to play with all the other vid sites.
Tim O'Reilly: Defined "Web 2.0" in an epic essay. Current occupation: Running O'Reilly Media; secretly crafting "Web 3.0" essay.
Dalton Caldwell: Founded social IM service imeem. Current occupation: throwing parties.

Next up: Wow, Newsweek gets it.

The New Wisdom of the Web [Newsweek]