“These Park Avenue sophisticates who go to the Polo store and spend trillions of dollars on cashmere sweaters are going to buy gummy bears in my store. Just because they buy certain clothes and wear mink coats and whatever, they still have an inner child. They will buy lollipops.” — Dylan Lauren, owner of Dylan’s… Continue Reading

“There’s no limit to how far I could go in AOL – it’s just the limits they put on me. I’m not in line to be CEO of AOL, but it’s obvious that’s where I’ll end up, if I stay focused. Somebody’s got to be the next CEO of AOL.” — Jason Calcanis, quoted in… Continue Reading

“We had these really big Web sites, but what we didn’t have was a way of entering, in a quick and rapid and scalable way, into smaller categories of topical passion.” AOL EVP Jim Bankoff on AOL’s acquisition of Weblogs Inc, in a Wired story on why Jason Calcanis is now a media genius.

So 8 am this morning there’s a knock at my door and a woman outside telling me to move my car out of the lot cause the lot is gonna flood in the current storm. She says the creek is 2/3 up the drain and that last time it rained this much some of the… Continue Reading

It’s a career move that is starting to seem somewhat familiar: a Web 2.0 start-up vet moving from entrepreneurial status into a leadership role within a large company. This time it’s Khoi Vinh, principal at design co Behavior, who’s joining the NYTimes as their design director, a job that’s been vacant almost a year, since… Continue Reading

“The Flickrizers most ambitious goal is to turn Web searching itself into a social event — the idea being that you can find what you’re looking for faster if you first see pages saved and tagged by people you know and trust. Done well, it could play as the triumph of the humans over Google’s… Continue Reading

Wired and Socialtext‘s Fortune 500 Business Blogging wiki–how cool is this? Chris Anderson writes: “…we’ve decided to open source the project…. It’s a wiki’d version of the above spreadsheet that anyone can edit, adding new Fortune 500 blogs as they’re found or revising existing entries. It’s released under a Creative Commons attribution license, so anyone… Continue Reading

In my 2005 lists, I left off two people who have given me incredible positive emotional support and challenged me intellectually during the past year– Lisa Williams and Julie Leung. Lisa is one of the quiet greats–she’s not only involved in podcasting, citizen journalism and her own family life, she’s a tremendously energetic and compassionate… Continue Reading

WeightWatchers reports that weight loss is the #1 New Year’s resolution. Is anyone surprised?(Via SPIP) So how does Google collect and rank search results? Details here. (Via no fancy name) Dave Beisel: Do new web services make the transition from serving digerati to usage in the mainstream? (Or, in other words, how does something new… Continue Reading

Confession: I made the mistake of thinking I wouldn’t be one of the sniffling, wheezing hordes complaining about cold and flu this week–but I was wrong. It may be almost a week since Christmas, but my nose is as red as Santa’s coat and as runny as Rudolph’s eyes(ugh). Writing year-end charity checks and trying… Continue Reading