Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media
In yesterday’s post Internet re-organising around people I finished by saying:
I think that people are turning to the web for a sense of identity and community. Social networks and review sites are providing spaces for self expression and collective opinion formation. These are basic human needs that used to be served in traditional communities but which are [...]
I have written before about the internet re-organisng around people - and I even said a few words on the subject at an Internet People event in London last night. (Great event btw - in his own inimitable fashion founder Robert Loch is really driving the London internet scene forward with this community - if you [...]
YouTube is starting to get serious about monetisation. As reported by Fred Wilson and the BBC they will be doing things like adding 3s pre-roll ads to videos and and using audo fingerprinting to prevent copyright theft. Getting clean(er) from a copyright point of view is an essential pre-cursor to making money - if there is cash [...]
I wrote about the decline of record shops last week in The long tail theory is playing out well for music lovers and today the Sunday Times reported in HMV is ‘going to the dogs’ that
HMV, the high-street music retailer, has become one of the most “shorted” UK stocks of all time. Almost 24% of HMV’s stock [...]
The following definition of a viral internet service is from Nisan of StartUp Review, but posted on Mashable:
A viral Internet service is one where each new user must involve friends to derive personal value from the service. This is best exhibited by communication and hyper-social services.
He gives Skype and Xfire (an IM service for gamers) as [...]
This is a follow to my first post on this subject last week.
In that post I predicted that building web2.0 companies will start to become a more expensive business - driven by increased marketing and development spend.
In this follow up post I will look at what that might mean for the way companies are built and how VCs [...]
This is going further and faster than I thought, driven by fears that illegal file sharing is starting to hit the growth of digital music sales.
This is from the International Herald Tribune.
Executives of several technology companies meeting here at Midem, the annual global trade fair for the music industry, said this weekend that a move [...]
In a comment on yesterday’s post Indie labels to sell music on MySpace mspoke reminded me that a large and increasing proportion of music artist’s revenues come from live performances and merchandise (I have posted before in Experiences not products).
As per the MySpace post indie labels will be selling unprotected MP3s on MySpace. The hope will [...]
This deal has been reported on in detail on GigaOM and by Jason Ball, but in summary MySpace has cut a deal with a group of independent music labels and legal peer to peer download service Snocap to sell DRM free MP3s. A neat feature of the deal is that individual users can put a line of [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot about widgets recently and the recent Valleywag and Fred Wilson posts made me want to get my thoughts down in writing. I started with the hype but I think there is something important going on here, so don’t give up in disgust if the Valleywag stuff offends you.
In his Valleywag post Nick [...]
