TechStars - two weeks left to apply
A while back, Brad Feld asked Don and I to be mentors for TechStars. (Don was a mentor last year as well.) The list of mentors is impressive (my participation notwithstanding!), and the overall program is a fantastic idea. In short: 10 startups get picked from among hundreds, receive seed funding, and get access to […]
Voce 5×5 interview
Meant to post this a couple weeks ago when it went up, but I’ve been on the road and didn’t get a chance to get to it.
It was fun to sit down with my former law school classmate (and now social media guru) Andrea Weckerle, who’s now at Voce Communications. This interview was the inaugural […]
Feeds in search results?
A good discussion is going on at Joost de Valk’s blog about situations in which feeds do/don’t show up in search results. (Short answer: they shouldn’t.) I provide some clarifications about what we do at Google insofar as feeds and search behaviors are concerned, and answer a few questions that (hopefully) clears up some misconceptions […]
Best of luck to Eric
Almost exactly two years ago, Eric Olson contacted Dick about interviewing him for a podcast. Shortly after that, Eric asked Dick whether he thought the “business development associate” role was something he should apply for. We hired him almost immediately.
I was fortunate to have Eric work for me for the next 18 months. FeedBurner’s growth […]
Polished presentations at SES
I attended SES San Jose this week, and gave two presentations – one on podcast/audio search optimization, the other on blog and feed SEO. Both are versions of presentations I’d given at past SES shows (NYC, Chicago) and they went pretty well. By the turnout here and in NYC in April, it’s clear that the […]
Joining Google, Continuing FeedBurner
As I mentioned on Friday, Google’s acquisition of FeedBurner makes me a Noogler (”New Googler“). Before I talk more about that, let me say this: we would not be where we are without the trust and support of hundreds of thousands of publishers around the world who chose to distribute their content through FeedBurner. When […]
I’m a Noogler
To say I’m excited about this news would be an understatement. More later.
Interview on Total Picture Radio
Last month at SES, I sat down with Peter Clayton to talk about FeedBurner. The interview ended up covering far more ground than I expected; how I got my job at FeedBurner, how I hired Eric and Jake, the guy who got me into blogging (John Robb), Daemon, search engine optimization, FeedBurner’s growth, and much […]
Blogroll chaos
Picking up the thread, Erik points out that there’s a lot of room for improvement when it comes to blogrolls. I’m not sure that FeedBurner’s the right answer to solving all of the things he points out (traditionally, we republish and/or manage existing info, rather than creating it originally), but I like where this is […]
The future of distributed media
Had a great conversation with Barry Parr today, and one of the observations I shared was how much fun I’m having with Google Reader’s “share” function. For those that don’t know, Google Reader has a feature that lets you “share” any item in the reader. (See image to the right.)
I take the feed that Google […]
