Finally you can subscribe to StreetMojo’s RSS feeds and access thousands of contests. Get it here.  And yes, if you are a website, you can now parse that good stuff and add promotions, sweepstakes etc. at will.

Feedback, suggestions, etc… send it to ash@mojosupreme.com. More mojo, you wonder… and what is StreetMojo.com, you may ask? continue reading...

XML turns 10 years old.  According to the Wikipedia entry:

XML, or the Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose markup language.  It is classified as an extensible language because it allows its users to define their own elements. Its primary purpose is to facilitate the sharing of structured data across different information systems, particularly via the Internet. continue reading...

Editor’s note: I knew we were speaking too soon. One more deal to add to the list: Time Warner to buy Quigo. Added to the bottom of the list, under ad networks.

According to The Jordan Edmiston Group Inc.’s October 2007 Client Briefing report, the number of deals through the first three quarters of 2007 exceeded full year 2006 figures: 637 transactions with $95B in value thus far. Do the math and that is $150M per deal, quite rich. continue reading...

Less than 48 hours ago, I laughed-out-loud when I read that Bay Partners would be setting up a separate fund to invest in Facebook Application Developments (which incidentally spells fad, but that’s really just a coincidence).  Don’t get me wrong, I am extremely bullish on Facebook (Facebook 100M users, a matter of when, not if) and if I were a part of the company I could envision a dozen ways to create an Ad Sense-esque revenue stream… but the fact remains, Facebook Apps is no brass ring for third parties.  I’ve written on this here: Facebook OS: Be careful what you ask for.

In fact, by now it’s quite obvious that this is Facebook’s way to not only drum up excitement amongst developers but mainly a way to try to find that diamond in the rough product or application that it can then either develop itself, partner up with or outright acquire in the hopes of it becoming what Ad Sense was to Google: a $10B annual revenue stream within 4 years of launch. continue reading...

It’s official, check out Feedburner’s blog here and Google’s post here. 

By buying Feedburner, Google is doing many things: continue reading...

Chicago-based Feedburner just got sold to Google for $100M, Tech Crunch is reporting.  The rumor began last week, but TC now says it’s official, as the two companies are in a binding term sheet.

FB raised $10M from Portage (Series A),  Mobius and Union Square Ventures in Series B (speaking of which, if this news is indeed 100% right, then Fred Wilson had two exits in one week - three days in fact - one from CBS and one from Google, not bad at all).   Anyway, FB is reported to do $10M in revenues, so this one weighs in at 10x revenues.  To put things into perspective, GOOG paid 10x revenues for DCLK and MSFT paid 15x revenues for AQNT. continue reading...

Just a week ago, we published our Top 10 Storylines of 2006.  We were going to avoid the Top 10 Trends or Predictions of 2007 and instead do something else (we still will do that, expect it on January 1st). 

But then Pete Cashmore of Mashable.com challenged us to suggest some predictions for 2007, you know our saying: “Ash and you shall receive” (though we already somewhat covered this back in October here): continue reading...

From one of the better sources of information, The Guardian.  Enjoy. continue reading...

2006 was another exciting year on the Web.   With the world Internet penetration reaching 16%, led by the Chinese, Indian and South American markets, the Web is definitely about to undergo another period of radical change and innovation.

With that in mind, we bring you the top 10 newsworthy storylines of 2006.  continue reading...

Ten spammers account for 80% of spam being sent out.  A few years ago, Bill Gates called for the end of spam, saying that his company would aggressively go out to destroy spam.  I am not sure MSFT has played a major role in the improvement of the spam situation, but the fact remains that things are much better than a mere two years ago, when my day would start off with the deleting of 2,000 spam emails to retrieve the dozen or so emails that were legit.  Of those, half were intended for me directly, the others were mailing lists I was actually subscribed to.

Between CAN-SPAM and anti-spam software, things have improved… thankfully, but the forces of evil remain at large.  The Axis of Evil resides here. continue reading...