Web Bubble 2.0  —  Well, maybe it is a bubble.  But out in Silicon Valley, they don’t think of that as a bad thing at all.  —  T  —  he Silicon Valley venture capitalist Michael Moritz is kinda-sorta the West Coast version of New York’s own Steve Rattner.

Source:   New York Magazine
Author:   John Heilemann
Link: […]

AdBrite puts spotlight on Facebook application ads  —  Online advertising firm AdBrite is set to announce on Tuesday a new program to serve ads for third-party Facebook applications.  Considering it a niche “channel” alongside existing AdBrite verticals, the company has launched …

Source:   CNET News.com
Author:   Caroline McCarthy
Link:   http://www.news.com/8301-13577_3-9807263-36.html

Plentyoffish: 1-Man Company May Be Worth $1Billion  —  We’ve written before about PlentyOfFish, a leading online dating site that is run by a single person and is raking in money.  Markus Frind is the singular force behind PlentyOfFish.  At the time of our last review, June 2006 …

Source:   Read/WriteWeb
Author:   Richard MacManus
Link:   http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives…

Gmail’s New Version Is Now Available  —  The new version of Gmail I was talking about the other day is already available in some Gmail accounts.  If you see a link to a “newer version” at the top of the page, click on it and enjoy the new features: mail prefetching, updated contact manager and […]

The Web 2.0 World is Skunk Drunk on Its Own Kool-Aid  —  This is a sad time for the web.  It’s as almost somber as the time just before the last bubble burst in 2000.  I was working in PR with dot-com startups at the time and the way I feel now is how I […]

Meebo Platform Launches With Big San Francisco Party  —  Sequoia backed Meebo launches Meebo Platform this evening, allowing third party developers to create applications for the Meebo web chat service.  They’re celebrating the launch with a big party in San Francisco with hundreds of the company’s closest friends.

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Michael Arrington
Link:   http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/29/meebo-platform…

Automattic Spurns $200 Million Acquisition Offer  —  Automattic, the company that created the Wordpress.com blogging platform and oversees the Wordpress.org open source project, has rejected a $200 million acquisition offer, says multiple sources.  Half the price was to be paid in cash, half in stock in the buyer.

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Michael Arrington
Link:   http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/29/automattic…