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MyBlogLog to be killed. What went wrong and 3 awesome alternatives. (Updated)

Posted by Patrick de Laive Follow Patrick de Laive on twitter on December 23rd, 2009
Over the past few months we have heard a lot of rumors about MyBlogLog. A service that Today our friends at ReadWriteWeb broke the story that Yahoo is about to kill MyBlogLog. Inside MyBlogLog It was obvious that Yahoo was struggling with ideas with exactly what to do with MBL after they had acquired it for $10 [...]

Introducing The Next Web Middle East, UK, Australia, Poland, Italy, and Bulgaria!!

Posted by Zee Follow Zee on twitter on November 17th, 2009
“I read thousands of news sources for tech industry information and the Next Web is on my short list of “must read” Robert Scoble Yes, it’s worth the double exclamation mark in the title. :) Last month we announced the launch of a number of international blogs, these include a selection of continent blogs (in English) [...]

The Next Web launches dedicated blogs for Europe, Asia, France, Russia, Turkey, South Korea, Germany and more…

Posted by Zee Follow Zee on twitter on October 13th, 2009
“The web is a transnational machine, which you have understood from the beginning.” Kevin Kelly For those who have been loyal readers since our humble beginnings in early 2008, you will remember we made our name initially as a European focused technology blog and a spin off from the still very successful Next Web Conference. Soon after, the [...]

The Era of the Entrepreneur!

Posted by Boris Follow Boris on twitter on November 1st, 2008
Without VCs many start-ups wouldn’t have a chance. Unfortunately with VCs many entrepreneurs also don’t have a chance. There will always be a power struggle between investors and entrepreneurs. Sure, they have a common goal: make the company successful. But unfortunately they also have a goal that is completely opposed to each others goals: they [...]

You are 18-44 and 1/3 female…

Posted by Boris Follow Boris on twitter on October 31st, 2008
We have been using Lookery.com, the service Scott Rafer founded after he sold MyBlogLog to Yahoo, for almost two months now to get a little more data about you and we like what we see! According to Lookery more than 37% of our readers are female and the majority of our visitors are between 18 and [...]

The Sellers’ Market for Startup Investing will Restart in ~12 Months

Posted by Guest blogger on October 27th, 2008
This is a guest post written by Scott Rafer, CEO of Lookery Scott Rafer Silicon Valley has been painfully instructive in the last month. It’s now clear that many bloggers are no better than the MSM in terms of “If it bleeds, it leads.” As a community, web startups need leadership, focus, and goals. To hear that [...]

Bloggers, making money is not a crime

Posted by Ernst-Jan Pfauth on October 27th, 2008
Last Friday, Amsterdam was the scene of Holland’s first international blog conference BLOG08. Pete Cashmore (Mashable), Loren Feldman (1938media.com), Hugh MacLeod (Gapingvoid), and Scott Rafer (Lookery) all crossed the ocean to tell the European crowd how they could turn their blog in a successful one. Two of them, namely Cashmore and Rafer, focused on monetizing [...]

Hugh MacLeod: “Blogs aren’t dead, people are”

Posted by Anne Helmond on October 24th, 2008
BLOG08 starts in less than an hour and the program is full of rock’n'roll bloggers who will talk about the various aspects of blogging from different angles. Blogs are alive and kicking, in contrast to the provocative Wired article that once again declared blogs dead. Speaker Scott Rafer referred to the article as the “perfect [...]

9 days to BLOG08, here are 5 reasons why you should be there

Posted by Ernst-Jan Pfauth on October 15th, 2008
Maybe you’re still in doubt whether you should come to BLOG08. Or you might need to convince your boss or fiancée? The five reasons will make it easier for you. 1. We have great and inspiring speakers who all master a different online publishing skill. 2. Super vloggers Gabe Mac (Mobuzz) and Loren Feldman will spice up [...]

A short chat with Loic Le Meur about blogging

Posted by Ernst-Jan Pfauth on October 6th, 2008
As you might know, I’m co-organizing BLOG08 – the international blogging conference in Amsterdam on October 24 (see button in the sidebar). Edial Dekker and I have invited famous blogging heroes like Mashable’s Pete Cashmore, Gapingvoid’s Hugh MacLeod, and CEO of Lookery, Scott Rafer to inspire (corporate) bloggers all around the world. So far, people [...]

Loic Le Meur: Le Web 08 is all about l’amour

Posted by Ernst-Jan Pfauth on September 29th, 2008
Just received an email from Loic Le Meur with the Le Web 08 program. This Paris-based two day conference still one of Europe’s hottest web gatherings. Our dear web celebs from Silicon Valley feel the same way, as Michael Arrington, Steve Gillmor, Dan Farber (Editor-in-Chief, CNET News), Om Malik (GigaOm), Robert Scoble, and Kara Swisher [...]

Video: Garrett Camp (Founder StumbleUpOn) on search

Posted by Boris Follow Boris on twitter on August 19th, 2008
Here is Garrett Camp’s keynote from The Next Web Conference 2008. After a short summary of the history of search – from directories, to algorithm, to social networks and social media – and types of search – page, query, image, visual, video, people, product and music – Garrett Camp shared some thoughts on the future: social [...]

Video: Werner Vogels (CTO Amazon.com) on “Uncertainty”

Posted by Boris Follow Boris on twitter on July 24th, 2008
Here is Werner Vogels’ keynote titled “Uncertainty” from The Next Web Conference 2008. Vogels shares with us that “everything fails all the time. We lose whole datacenters! Those things happen.” and “let us worry about those things, not you as a startup. Focus on your ideas.”. An interesting presentation whether you are considering using [...]

Video: Gil Penchina (wikia.com) “Giving insane levels of control to your customers”

Posted by Boris Follow Boris on twitter on June 19th, 2008
Gil Penchina, CEO of wikia.com talks about his experiences with “Giving insane levels of control to your customers” at eBay (8 years) and now at Wikia. The difference between Wikia and Wikipedia, as Gil explains, is that WikiPedia is the encyclopedia and Wikia the rest of the library. By giving his user lots of responsibilities [...]

Video: Leah Culver (Pownce): “Webapp in 5 steps”

Posted by Boris Follow Boris on twitter on June 5th, 2008
Leah Culver talked about starting Pownce.com, how they came up with the name and the idea, the whole story about their API, how networking helps entrepreneurs, her reason for being in San Francisco and more interesting insights. Then she also takes time to answer some questions from the audience. Anne Helmond wrote a post about [...]

Video: Nova Spivack “Making Sense of the Semantic Web”

Posted by Boris Follow Boris on twitter on June 3rd, 2008
Here is the full presentation that Nova Spivack, technology visionary and entrepreneur and currently CEO and Founder of Radar Networks, gave at The Next Web Conference 2008 titled “Making Sense of the Semantic Web”. Erick Schonfeld called it “one of the clearest explanations of the semantic Web I’ve heard so far” and wrote an excellent [...]

Google desperately trying to appear like an ‘underdog’

Posted by Ernst-Jan Pfauth on May 31st, 2008
Some things in life seem so unimportant, yet when they change you’ll immediately notice it. An example: have you ever changed the position of your office litter bin? If you have ever did so, you probably remember you threw your garbage on the ground – on the exact place where your litter bin used to [...]

Video: Scott Rafer interviews Kevin Rose (Digg.com)

Posted by Boris Follow Boris on twitter on May 28th, 2008
Scott Rafer, the Succesful Serial Entrepreneur, co-founder of Mashery, previously CEO of MyBlogLog and currently CEO of Lookery interviewed Kevin Rose, co-founder Revision3, Pownce and Digg.com at The Next Web Conference 2008. This is a very personal interview in which Kevin talks about his own experiences and even comments on upcoming features on Digg. The original [...]

Xiha: social network for multilingual citizens of the world

Posted by Ernst-Jan Pfauth on April 27th, 2008
San Francisco was flooded by Finnish companies last week. They’ve teamed up to organize a meeting at the uber-hip restaurant Foreign Cinema to meet with well-known web professionals as Loic le Meur, Scott Rafer and Howard Rheingold. Boris and me were there and really enjoyed meeting all these ambitious entrepreneurs who prove that Finland’s technology [...]

Second round of start-ups that are shaping the next web

Posted by Ernst-Jan Pfauth on April 3rd, 2008
The Next Web is about the future of the web, so it is obvious that startups play a significant role during the Conference. 24 startups will do a 5 minute presentation on main stage. During breaks all attendees and press can visit the startups at their booth in the Company Arena (same area as where [...]

Kevin Rose: ‘Digg will soon start suggesting stories’

Posted by Ernst-Jan Pfauth on April 3rd, 2008
Kevin Rose is officiously one of the most famous Web 2.0 entrepreneurs. He has co-founded Revision3, Pownce, and of course his most popular company Digg. Somebody with such an entrepreneurial spirit certainly has something to tell, so we asked Scott Rafer – who also managed successful start-ups such as MyBlogLog – to interview Kevin on [...]

Stumbling Upon Search, Garrett Camp on the Future of Search and Discovery

Posted by Patrick de Laive Follow Patrick de Laive on twitter on March 25th, 2008
From an inside source we’ve heard that Garrett Camp, founder and Chief Architect of StumbleUpon, is preparing a speech on “the Future of Search and Discovery”. This must be exciting. Think about it for a second, most of the people use the web not even close to its potential. Apart from google and their social network, [...]

VideoInterview: Scott Rafer from Lookery

Posted by Boris Follow Boris on twitter on February 13th, 2008
Last week I had a video interview with Scott Rafer from Lookery.com. Unfortunately iChat screwed me again and this time recorded only 30 seconds of video for a 13 minute interview. Instead of having you stare at a black screen the rest of the time I filled it up with photos (zooming in and out) [...]

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Moderator Next Web starts new company

Posted by Patrick de Laive Follow Patrick de Laive on twitter on July 12th, 2007
Scott Rafer, moderator of The Next Web conference just started a new company. After WiFinder, Feedster, MyBlogLog, and Mashery he teamed up with Compete.com founder David Cancel for a new ride with an ad-network for Facebook apps called Lookery. Read more at GigaOm.