SocialMedia's Seth Goldstein Speaks!

Last week I paid a visit to the Palo Alto, Calif., HQ of SocialMedia and also had a chat with its Co-Founder and CEO Seth Goldstein. As the start-up describes itself, SocialMedia “is the leading provider of social-platform services. It fuses together three core features–management, marketing and monetization–into a comprehensive package that advertisers and developers [...]

Kara Visits BabyCenter and Head Baby Tina Sharkey

We knew if we waited long enough to post this visit to the San Francisco offices of niche community site BabyCenter–where we also did an interview with its adult supervision Tina Sharkey–that we’d get something good to hang it off of. Thanks then to Sharkey, who was recently installed as global president of the Johnson [...]

Web 2.0 Dinner and Schmoozefest

I went to a dinner last night hosted by John Battelle and Tim O’Reilly of the Web 2.0 Summit, and it was one of the more schmoozy events I have been to in a while. The event–this year at Foreign Cinema in the Mission District of San Francisco–is held to elicit feedback from the Internet’s [...]