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About: Eric Alterman
Website: http://kickapps.com
Profile:
Eric is KickApps' founder, and has founded numerous other venture-backed companies. His current projects include work with Internet video aggregation, concurrent processing, machine translation, gravity physics and mesh networking.
Twitter: @ericalterman
LinkedIn: eric-alterman
Posts by Eric Alterman
Widgets in Context
June 19, 2008
I didn’t see Fred Wilson’s keynote at the Widget World Expo, but read about it on Nate Westheimer’s Silicon Alley Insider post: Fred Wilson, Why Widgets Suck, And How to Fix Them. Nate writes: His talk (you can see the slides... Read more »
Open Portals, Anti-Portals and the Wholesale Web
January 03, 2007
Prediction Portals like AOL, MSN, Yahoo and Google will soon generate more impressions and ad inventory by providing their programming to third party websites then by serving retail traffic within their own domains. The idea of internet portals... Read more »
Context is Meaning
August 01, 2006
Everyone has a theory as to how MySpace became the dominant social networking destination. Was it weak competitors? Better technology? Interface design? Savvy grassroots marketing? Timing and momentum? Blind luck? Maybe all those things... Read more »
Eric Alterman, KickApps Founder & CEO
July 11, 2006
The idea of starting the company I now call KickApps Corporation came to me in the winter of 1995, the morning after an evening visit with my grandmother. Grandma Ann was about ninety years old at the time, and we had spent a long evening eating... Read more »
