NewTeeVee (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Personal video startup Seesmic laid off seven employees today, on top of the three employees it laid off last month. Seesmic founder and CEO Loic Le Meur explains in a video (embedded below) that the layoffs were mostly from the product side. September’s layoffs had been primarily on-camera talent. Tough times. Tough decisions.also read my blog [...]
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
It's time to start slamming the reality of the Silicon Valley situation home to everyone. Seesmic founder Loic Le Meur lets seven employees go, he says , which is more than a third of the company. This comes on top of three employees let go a couple of weeks ago. "We cut everything that wasn't outsourceable, core or absolutely necessary for the company." Le Meur says the company isn't in dire financial...
Webware.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Loic Le Meur, CEO and founder of video community service Seesmic , announced publicly on Friday that the company is laying off seven people from the start-up. Citing "market conditions and the recession," Le Meur disclosed that most of the let-go staffers are "behind-the-scenes" people who were building out the service. Le Meur said, "The worst is, we love them all." He says that "Seesmic is moving...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dear Nick Denton , please make up your damn mind. First, you're canning 19 staffers , in light of the coming ad recession. Now, you're saying we shouldn't panic . Well, which is it? We don't deal well with ambiguity. Fine. We're going to crawl into the corner with a bottle of Jack and stay there until John Carney , says it's okay to come out . New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media...
Clickety Clack: Online Ad Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
John Battelle is one of them:In the age of Google... You always have to go back to the question to get the right answer. Link
Chris Baggott's Email Marketing Best Practices (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Chris Baggott's Guide to Blogging - In tough times, you better be easy to findPosted using ShareThis
Web 2.0 Ireland (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
My good friend, Susan Mernit, co-founder Peoples Software and ex-Yahoo Director/VP Netscape/AOL, sent a note in relation to the Knight News Challenge. Its a US-based foundation giving away $5 million a year for grants in digital, open-source innovation Some notes The last day to submit applications for funding is November 1st. Site is at www.newschallenge.org, with [...]
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
"The best content will win. And we have the best content." That's what American Society of Magazine Editors president David Willey told a roomful of spooked magazine leaders this week. But what about the content that magazines don't want? Gawker publisher Nick Denton caused a stir on his flagship site when he told scorned magazine writers that he would publish their rejected articles. The New York...
Stowe Boyd's (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Members Project, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd.
Jeremy Zawodny Blog (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
A few weeks ago I asked for HTPC Wireless Keyboard and Mouse Recommendations and got some excellent suggestions. After reading reviews on-line and checking out the various specs, I settled on the Adesso WKB-4000US. I decided on this keyboard partly because I've liked previous Adesso keyboards and partly because it seemed to be the right combination of price, size, and range for our use. I was not...
Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
New York Times Nick Denton wonders how many others will regularly visit Tina Brown 's new website . "The design is lively," says Gawker's founder, but "it has to be simpler to work." Brown tells David Carr : "We have heard from a lot of people who love what we came up with, but we are tweaking and refining even as we speak." > Russo: TDB is a thematic relative of Brown's defunct Talk
Digital Inspiration (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
The most recent PageRank update sparked some intense discussion in the blogosphere with people like Steve Rubel, John Battelle, Danny Sullivan and Dave McClure joining the conversation.
OS Galaxy (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
David Sifry, founder of Technorati and Offbeat Guides, talks about building international businesses . Two quick points: you need to find great local people you can trust, and you need to make sure they are properly connected and can execute. How do you do this? There are no exceptions: you have to go there. Wherever there is. You have to go spend time with people. Face to face.
Roland Tanglao's Weblog (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Here's the Knight News Challenge Question and Answer with Susan Mernit portion of the video (i missed the last few questions because I ran out of disk space, this video was 800MB!). I think it answers a lot of the common questions and shows how Susan is an engaging, articulate and savvy person.
alarm:clock (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
GigaOm Media and Gawker Media are not mirror images but they are both fast growth, multi-blog startups that are dependent on online ad revenues. Gawker Media, under founder Nick Denton, has reinforced its stance that our lousy global economy cannot be ignored by online media companies, no matter how strong their growth might be. Gawker in recent months shed some of its slower growth sites and this...
