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Recent Posts Tagged With 'izea'
IZEAFest at SeaWorld Recap
After attending IZEAFest @ SeaWorld last weekend, I was planning to share a summary of the event here. However, I see that Convention News TV has already created a very nice video detailing the event, including clips from speakers such as Chris Brog...
Sponsored Conversations
Congrats are in order this week for a couple visionaries, Sean Corcoran of Forrester Research and Ted Murphy of IZEA. Sean published a break-through research report on the value of sponsored conversations, continuing Forrester's track record in lea...
Performance Marketing for Blogs, IZEA Innovates Again
When I first invested into IZEA, I liked the parallel between Google's sponsored search (pioneered by GoTo/Overture) and IZEA's sponsored content. Google's sponsored search pays for all the other cool free stuff they offer, and is the foundation fo...
IZEAFest: Like an Obama, Palin, Arrington & CarrotTop Love Child
Imagine combining the best speakers, the best bloggers and Orlando fun into one event-packed conference and you'd have IZEAFest -- September 11-13.The speaker lineup is crazy, including top bloggers such as Merlin Mann (43folders.com), Jeremy Schoema...
I Knew Ted Murphy was Superman, but Geez
I woke up this morning to messages that IZEA CEO and friend Ted Murphy got jumped in New Orleans by as many as 8 guys. It sounds like IZEA's Travis Andrews saw the commotion and jumped in to help -- resulting in a beat-down of his own. Wallets and ...
My Reactions for Startup Reactor
Steve Spalding from How To Split An Atom and History of Blogging has kicked off an interesting concept called the Startup Reactor. It focuses on very early companies (typically pre-launch), shares their story and kicks off a conversation about th...
SocialSpark Launches: Do You Smell What the Spark is Cooking?
So, today's the day Sparky is let out of his private alpha chains...IZEA's latest innovation is being unleashed today at Ad:Tech, San Francisco, and the stars of advertising and blogging are already lining up to meet Sparky and the world's first Soci...
Entrepreneurs Never Sleep...
or do they:It seems Ted got a little of his own medicine after abusing Travis once too often: Let's get to know each other, Join FVB, my venture capital blog community! ...
Beatbox, SXSW Style
Most of the SXSW wrap-up posts have trickled in by now, but I noticed this when I was checking IZEA's latest video antics. It's a beatbox mashup from the SXSW Bloghaus, including beats from Guy Kawasaki (How to Change the World), Darren Rouse (Probl...
RankSpank Makes Me Laugh...What's Your RealRank?
As a VC you get to live vicariously through your portfolio companies. Sometimes that is exhilarating, other times it is frustrating, and quite often it's just plain funny. This morning, I'm laughing.Given some of GOOGopoly's moves in late 2007, mor...
IZEARanks.com Alpha Now Live: Open Analytics Arrives
It was announced earlier today that IZEARanks.com has been released in alpha. Ted's post at the IZEA blog provides plenty of context, including details on the open analytics, smooth graphs, and API. In short, social media deserves a transparent ran...
That Just Happened -- SocialSpark that is...
"What does that do, does that blow your mind? That just happened!"~ Ricky BobbyThat is IZEA's announcement today of SocialSpark.com (codenamed Argus) -- the future of online advertising. Ricky Bobby's quote to Jean Girard kept running through my hea...
Vegas Map for BlogWorld, PostieCon and BloggersChoiceAwards
While planning my IZEA trip to BlogWorld/PostieCon I created a map of key locations such as the Hard Rock, Las Vegas Convention Center, Tao, Bellagio and others. The current zoom level allows you to see all the points of interest, but it's more fun ...
IZEA: Sponsored Social Media and so much more...
Seeing your babies grow up is bittersweet. Watching my daughters scare others at our haunted house this Halloween, instead of being scared, was both fun and sad.I feel that same conflict with PayPerPost's evolution to IZEA, being formally announced ...
