Jmarcafella, aka: Nocturnal State.

Jun 20

“Yahoo director of video strategy Rebecca Paoletti told BMO Emerging Media Conference-goers that ad-buyers don’t plan to increase their online video advertising budgets for 2009. Despite stagnant demand, online video ad inventory supply will continue growing in 2009 and Paoletti said it’ll show in declining rates publishers will be able to charge advertisers.”

Valleywag

Online video is transformative, but online video advertising isnt compelling (in the current incarnation). Video hosting sites will need alternative revenue streams if they want to reach scale in the next 2 - 4 years.

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Jun 19

“Longtime Facebook exec Matt Cohler will be leaving the social networking site to become a general partner at Benchmark Capital. Cohler, 31, who is currently Facebook’s VP of Product Management, was one of Facebook’s earliest hires and, as I wrote once, seemed like “the Yoda figure at Facebook to me.” In another interesting move, Cohler will continue as a “special advisor”–is that like special guest star on television?–to Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and to its senior management team.”

Facebook’s Matt Cohler to Benchmark | Kara Swisher | BoomTown

At 31, thats quite an impressive resume. PIMP.

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Jun 18

“Cofounders (and husband/wife team) Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield won’t be around to keep driving the product forward. They are both joining the mass exodus of executives from the company.”

Flickr Co-founders Join Mass Exodus From Yahoo

Flickr was the only company that ever concerned me about competing with Vimeo. Ever.

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Jun 14

Good Engineer or Two.

I am looking for a good engineer or two to help me build a new web service (in the areas of search and blogs). In the past 4 years, I have helped start Pronto.com and run Vimeo.com. And, I have learned quite a bit.

I would like the service to be heavily based on cloud computing infrastructure (e.g. Amazon Web Services). PHP or Python + database expertise is required.

Work from anywhere in the US. Flexible hours. Competitive salary, medical and early equity. Plus, a fun challenge!

Please contact me if you are interested: jonathan underscore marcus @msn plus the regular. I would appreciate referrals as well.

More About Me: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jmarcus

Thanks – Jonathan.

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Jun 9

“Boomdizzle.com is something I started. Boom like an explosion, boom! Its obviously International, because its online. I partnered with the guys that did Stamps.com and sold that years back. Its more than just a website - its a place for struggling artists.” LL Cool J on Sirius Satellite Radio

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Jun 9

Apple vs. Everyone

pile:

What I do have is a Gmail, GCal, Plaxo, Flickr and Mozy account. MobileMe is 5 web apps that do all those tasks, transparently, instantly and automatically across every device I own and with every piece of desktop software I already have.

MobileMe is the next iTunes. iTunes sold a lot of Macs.

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Jun 2

“Then I got lucky. The Internet came along. I didn’t know anything about the business of the Internet. But then nobody else did either. I was 10 years into my career which wasn’t going anywhere as far as I could tell, I was antsy to do something big, and here was something that sure looked big to me. I convinced Euclid to invest in a few early Internet deals and became friends with the crazy entrepreneurs who ran them. It was a blast and in the span of two years, 1994 and 1995, I had found my calling.” A VC: Fred Wilson

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Jun 2

“I am an employee at Ticketmaster and there is one major reason that we are counting the days until we are spun off from Barry Diller’s IAC. Alex von Furstenberg. Barry Diller’s stepson demands front row seats to every Laker Game in LA. His request trumphs all other Laker ticket requests from our President, CEO, celebrities, or valuable clients. His sense of entitlement is far worse than people” Nepotism: Diller’s Stepson May Lose His Front-Row Lakers Seats

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May 27

Introducing my first muxtape: jonathanmarcus.muxtape.com.

Phew, feels like I just finished a marathon.

Enough with the upfront equity extortion, byzantine licensing structures and monopolistic practices that only serve to stifle progress. We just wanna dance.

The year is 2008 and the music industry is still making life impossible for the most passionate and talented of music lovers and web developers. That’s just bad for everyone.

I really enjoyed the experience of choosing each song, and constantly refining the order. Congratulations Justin!

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May 25

Welcome to Firefox 3 (Release Candidate)

“Type in the Location Bar to search your bookmarks and history. It adapts and learns as you use it.”

and

“Fastest Firefox ever — 2x to 3x times faster on today’s complex web applications.”

Hot fire! Appears to be a significant, and well-needed upgrade. Hopefully, this will deliver some real performance improvements.

The combination of Firefox, Java, Flash and Java has been ever so unstable.

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