6 posts and columns on Crackle

New Early-Stage VC Firm, Freestyle Capital, Launches

in News on September 12, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

Longtime tech entrepreneurs Josh Felser and Dave Samuel will today announce a new early-stage VC firm called Freestyle Capital.
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The Start Project Gets Start-Up Stars as Advisers, Including Stone, Sacca, Mullenweg

in News on February 1, 2010 at 1:57 pm PT

A new Silicon Valley business incubator called The Start Project has recruited a high-profile group of entrepreneurs as advisers, which it announced today on its Web site. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, former Google exec and angel investor Chris Sacca, as well as Mike Tatum and David Liu, have all agreed to help the company’s start-ups before and during their creation.

Geek in Black: Barry Sonnenfeld Comes Out From Behind the Camera to…Vlog?

in News on October 12, 2009 at 5:26 am PT

For many years now, one of our regular attendees at the D: All Things Digital conference has been award-winning movie and television director, producer and writer Barry Sonnenfeld, who is–as it turns out–a not-so-closeted geek in his spare time with a gadget column for Esquire magazine called “The Digital Man.” Now he is branching out to a vlog about his geek passions on Crackle, which will appear every two weeks from wherever he is–either from his homes in East Hampton, N.Y. or Telluride, Colo., or from Hollywood sets.
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YouTube Dusts Off “Ghostbusters” to Make a Point: We’ve Got Movies!

in Media on August 14, 2009 at 3:00 am PT

Got a couple hours to kill? Want to enjoy a pleasant blast from the past? Head over to YouTube and check out “Ghostbusters,” which is running at its full length on Google’s video site and is prominently displayed on its homepage. YouTube’s not-so-subtle message: We’re more than just skateboarding cat videos!
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YouTube Preps Its (Sort of) Hulu Answer: Movies, TV Shows From Sony, Others

in Media on April 16, 2009 at 1:52 pm PT

Here’s Google’s sort-of answer to Hulu: A newly designed page to showcase TV shows and movies, along with new players and a new ad strategy. What’s not included: almost any first-run TV show or newly released movie. That’s the content that’s made Hulu successful and what’s also driven traffic to offerings from CBS and Disney’s ABC. You can’t accuse the Google guys of overselling this: In a press conference today, they described it as a “first step, a baby step.”
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