In an article on TechConfidential, and re-posted on several other spots (and now here), founder Ben Campbell reports "raising capital from a loose affiliation of more than 100 angel investors through Naples, Fla., venture capital firm Signature Capital LLC" in the amount of $13M! Chelmsford’s Ourstage.com, which came out of beta last September, recently announced [...]

Boston has a new face of online gaming and virtual worlds and I should have included in my recent article about Second Life. Hiawatha Bray’s article posted on Boston.com today provided more information about the much anticipated game by Curt Schilling’s online game company 38studios, formerly known as Green Monster Games (Maynard, MA).

I just can’t resist…cause this is a post that you just can’t touch.  The folks at TechCrunch have announced a new panel of experts to speak at the upcoming TechCrunch20.  Guess who is on the panel?….MC Hammer. Can’t Blog This My, my, my, my,Ajax Hits me oh so Hard,Makes me say <a href=””oh My God” >, Thank [...]

paidContent is reporting that Watertown, MA based Cymfony, a market research and intelligence business founded in 1996, is being sold to UK based research giant Taylor Nelson Sofres for an undisclosed amount.  The company has spent the past few years positioning itself in the web 2.0 world or, as they put it ”at the intersection of consumer-generated [...]

There is a rumor floating around that the reunion of Sting and The Police will bring the band to Fenway Park for 2 nights in July. Ever since the announcement that The Police will Reunite for Grammy Awards , there has been speculation as to what other events the band may have. I have not been able to [...]

Can I propose that Jeremy Shoemaker or one of these other Web 2.0 start-ups just go ahead and make the infomercial about how to strike it rich with Google Adsense?  It seems that every day someone is coming out with another picture of their ”don’t you wish you could make this much money“ Adsense check?

First thing on a Monday morning is not the time to be doing any maintenance so there must be something wrong here.  I just went to check a post of mine and found the site was down. http://www.digg.com   UPDATE…back up again. I would have loved to be one of the links on the down [...]

Although there is no real reason for it – Amazon.com is currently down.  That has to be a tough situation to go down in the middle of the day. The reason is not clear and, as of this post, there were only a few posts listed in the blogosphere through an Amazon search on Technorati.  Any thoughts?