“Evan Williams from Pyra Labs had an interesting post a few days back titled ‘Ten Rules for Web Startups’ which has some interesting points — some of which might well by relevant to bloggers in start up mode. The bold points are Evan’s — the rest is my attempt to adapt it to blogging.”

“It’s getting towards the end of the year and I’m feeling the need to take stock of where we’ve actually come with Web 2.0 in the last 12 months. So much has happened in this space recently and a tidal wave of innovative, high-quality software has been released this year. So much in fact, that it’s hard to keep track of it all… So in spirit of the holidays, here is a list of some of the best Web 2.0 software that I’ve come across so far. You may have heard of some of these, but hopefully you’ll find a few nice new Christmas presents under your Web 2.0 tree.”

“VC Brad Feld is a kindred spirit with his complaint post expressing that he ‘was stunned by the amount of discussion about the Yahoo/del.icio.us deal. There was a very large and interesting deal done on Monday last week that arguably has much greater importance to the structure of the tech/media business than Yahoo/del.icio.us and it had extremely little coverage by the tech bloggers. Can you name that deal? Liberty Media acquired Provide Commerce for $477 million.’”