December 17th, 2012

Kevin Rose’s Milk Co-Founder Daniel Burka Joins Google Ventures As Design Partner

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Daniel Burka, who co-founded mobile incubator Milk, has joined Google Ventures as a design partner.

In a tweet earlier this morning, Burka noted that this is another chance for him to work with his Milk co-founder Kevin Rose. Before Milk, Burka was a designer at Digg and a co-founder at Pownce (Rose co-founded both). → Read More

April 4th, 2011

Milk: Kevin Rose's New Company Aims to Solve Big Problems on the Mobile Web

Well by Silicon Valley standards, that certainly wasn’t a long “stealth” period. Just weeks after he quit Digg, Kevin Rose is announcing details of his new startup. Knowing Rose, I can tell why he’s so excited to get started. He’s constructed a company that plays perfectly to his strengths in the early days– but will test his weaknesses long term.

It’s called Milk, and it’s going to be a… → Read More

April 22nd, 2009

ClusterShot Aims To Become Another iStockphoto Rival

There’s another online marketplace for buying and selling stock photographs in town, and its name is ClusterShot. Don’t look for it to bring any major innovations in the space, of which Getty Images-owned iStockphoto is arguably the dominant force, but feel free to check it out if you agree that there it needs a bit more competition (also check out our earlier review of Adography, another… → Read More