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1 Billion Pageviews: A Big Time Web Service

April 21, 2010 by Fred Wilson with 125 views

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

April 14, 2010 by Gaurav Mishra with 326 views

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!

September 17, 2009 by Albert Wenger with 244 views

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

June 17, 2009 by Seth Godin with 113 views

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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