John's comments

Yes. Not sure if it was Mark's unpolished skills as a presenter or because it was all a bit affected, but a lot of it came across as pie-in-the-sky stuff.
on Facebook embracing an open Web

Hey David Saad, You raise a good point that I didn't in our story. Thanks for the inside insight from a member of TheFunded.
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Great cause, noble idea: helping people help themselves. You'll see more of KickStart CEO and founder Martin Fisher on Vator.tv soon.
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Follow-up on the interview with Jim Louderback, who said in reply to an email that Revision3 has no plans to bring charges against anti-piracy company MediaDefender, "because they don't have the money and we don't have the time." But he does plan to "send them a bill." As noted in our story, MediaDefender brought down Revision3's servers with a denial-of-service attack over Memorial Day Weekend.
on Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback on Web video

For an idea of what Opdendyk is talking about, check out one of his portfolio companies, netseer.
on Onset's Terry Opdendyk on ad acquisitions

Yelp is a useful and fun city guide service and a reminder of how large companies like Microsoft and IAC could have done with properties like Sidewalk and CitySearch if they had better understood the power of letting users control the content. Maybe those ideas were ahead of their time, given that few people understood the power of UGC way back in 1999 when Microsoft sold Sidewalk to CitySearch's parent. But that's ancient history. Today Yelp has branched out from merely supplying reviews to creating a vibrant social community and its name has entered rarified air: like Google's, it is now a verb. Great things usually follow a movement with that kind of cultural resonance.
on Yelp

Hey Greg, thanks for the comment. The story about Gore's energy use, which you linked to, is just one more reason why no one on either side of the political aisle is above being satirized. We try to be fair and impartial with our skewering. And I couldn't agree more with your point that the private sector, in the form of venture-backed startups, will come up with better solutions to green challenges than the government. Whomever can find and fund the best ideas -- whether it's Al Gore or someone else -- deserves to be rewarded by the marketplace.
on Blog Critic News Episode #3 - Al Gore as venture capitalist

Hey folks, thanks for flagging NowLive.com for the wider Vator.tv community. The power of the idea and the quality of the pitch was enough to get the company featured in our newsroom. This is exactly what we're trying to do here at Vator.tv - use the wisdom of the crowd -- or in the case of NowLive, the fanatical addiction of the crowd -- to help spot promising emerging companies.
on NowLive - Live Interactive Broadcasting

The assumption behind 222do's business model - that users will establish long-term relationships with Facebook -- lies at the heart of why the site could be a huge player in the online ad market. As I wrote in our Vator newsroom post this week, advertisers will pay big CPMs for the chance to sell ads based on Facebook user data. The challenge for the site will be maintaining growth if Google can wall it off with Open Social. Granted, Google is just getting this off the ground, but the lesson of AOL, whose proprietary model led to stagnation when the open Web exploded, is a cautionary one. I'd love to hear Ellen's thoughts on Open Social as it applies to the choices app developers may have to make.
on 222do

Right on the evolutionary part, Robert. The question is: what will it mean for all the Web 2.0 startups out there whose business models are based on selling ads if the big fish get an ever larger share of a pie whose rate of growth, while still healthy, is slowing?
on Online ad spending still surging, but biggest players getting lion's share