5 posts and columns on Tony Conrad

AOL Sells Content Recommender Surphace to Content Recommender Outbrain

in Media on February 1, 2011 at 3:18 pm PT

Or in the words of the trade: Here’s a story you may be interested in.

About.me: A Social Networking Profile to Rule Them All?

in News on October 13, 2010 at 10:36 am PT

Do we now have so many profiles online that we need another site to keep track of them all? The founders of a new platform called About.me are betting on it. About.me ties together users’ other social-networking sites and includes analytics that let users track things like how many people viewed their About.me page and which social-networking profiles they viewed from there.

Sphere Leader Has Exited AOL–But Staying on as "Special" Venture Advisor

in News on November 4, 2009 at 9:30 am PT

Tony Conrad, CEO and co-founder of Sphere–the contextually relevant content engine AOL bought in the spring of 2008 for upward of $25 million–left the Time Warner online unit last month, several sources have told BoomTown in recent weeks. But, in an effort by AOL’s CEO Tim Armstrong to hold onto entrepreneurial talent, Conrad has agreed to become “Special Advisor” to its AOL Ventures Unit. Apparently, he is also mulling a new start-up and remains a VC too.
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AOL's Big Give and Whirling Dervish Show!

in News on April 15, 2008 at 3:03 am PT

AOL is turning into the Oprah Winfrey of the digital world, it seems, opening up Time Warner’s (TWX) checkbook to as many start-ups as it can. Last month, it was $850 million in cash for social-networking site Bebo. And, today, it’s a much smaller slug for Sphere, which started as a blog search engine and [...]

Kara Visits Sphere (and Finds No Place Like Om)

in News on June 14, 2007 at 3:15 am PT

I went down to visit the offices of Sphere on Monday to see new developments at the blog search engine. Full disclosure, although it is right in front of you throughout this site: AllThingsD.com uses the Sphere widget to point readers to more related articles and blogs based in authority and other algorithmic criteria within [...]