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1 Billion Pageviews: A Big Time Web Service
Yesterday our portfolio company Tumblr announced that they had quietly done a round of financing with the existing investors. And they also announced that the Tumblr service is serving over 1bn pageviews per month. I thought it might be useful to put 1bn pageviews in perspective. I went into comScore and looked at how many web... [read more]
Writing on the Wall: Every Single Talk at GoaFest 2010 Was About Social Media
Last week, I had a great time at GoaFest 2010. First, I participated in a panel discussion on social media with some really cool co-panelists – Eric Ashok Ledergerber, Founder, hub.in|dia Kiruba Shankar (@kiruba), CEO, Business Blogging Vishal Gondal (@vishalgondal), CEO, India Games Gaurav Mishra (@gauravonomics... [read more]
The Web and Education: We Need Scale!
Yesterday, I had a fascinating lunch with some very bright folks from the Gates Foundation. In addition to public health, the Gates Foundation appears to be ramping up its activities in education. A key topic at the lunch was the impact of the web on education. The discussion really helped clarify my own thinking about what the critical... [read more]
Scalejacking
Dave Balter coined this great term. It describes the quest of marketers for size at all costs. Because marketers were raised on the scale of mass—TV, radio, newspapers—they have a churn and burn mentality. The Internet turns this upside down. The Internet is about who, not how many. The Internet lets you take really good care of 100... [read more]
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