Roundup: 4Info, DAG backs Podshow, MySpace hype…
You can get VentureBeat at 4Info — In fact, 4Info lets anyone, not just VentureBeat, publish their blog or applications to mobile users.
With its new service announced yesterday, mobile search company, 4Info said you can upload your blog or other applications so that mobile phone users can get them in the form of messages and alerts (via their mobile screen, or short text messages).
We uploaded VentureBeat, and it was easy. Now that we have done that, it is easy for people to access it. You can message 4info (address is 44636) and type in VentureBeat. 4Info sends you the latest posts via short message, though we don’t recommend reading us this way. You have to message back and forth to get little packets of info. Easier is going to http://mobile.4info.net on your browser, and typing in VentureBeat. More info is here.
DAG Ventures was lead in Podshow’s latest round — We reported Podshow’s latest $15 million venture round here. Turns out, the lead investor was DAG Ventures, the same firm that has invested in Grouper (and so knows what it means to make money from Web 2.0) and Friendster (and so knows it can be a seesaw).
Google Reader upgrades– See here.
MySpace will be worth $15 billion within three years? — This, according to an analyst, who may be right. Remember Merrill Lynch’s Henry Blodget who, in an earlier day, predicted Amazon would hit an unbelievable $400, which it did, but only to crash when the hype died?
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Matt launched VentureBeat in September of 2006, with the realization that no one else was covering the entrepreneurial and tech innovation scene with the velocity or depth that he was. Prior to founding VentureBeat, he covered venture capital for the San Jose Mercury News from 2001 to 2006. In 2002, Matt was awarded "Journalist of the Year" by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. Prior to working at the Merc, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bonn, Germany from 1995 to 1998, and a writer for the Washington Post in 1994. Matt holds a PhD in Government and an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University. In addition to VentureBeat, Matt is also the Executive Producer of DEMO, the leading launchpad event for emerging technologies.
