Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media
Playdo CEO Donnie Lygonis planted the idea for this post in my mind following the conference yesterday. He was telling me about a presentation he gave in which he was arguing that the mobile web today is like the wired was in 1997. I think he is roughly right, which is perhaps surprising given how [...]
I’m at the Library House Essential Web conference today which so far has been excellent - to the extent that I looked through the agenda to find a slot I could sit out I found I didn’t want to miss any. So I’m blogging from the auditorium as ParkAtMyHouse do their pitch (if you drive [...]
Fred Wilson recently posted about The Facebook Problem:
Invite overload and application noise. I cannot keep track of all the
invites I am getting, both the standard invites and the application
invites. And what’s worse, I can’t keep track of all the applications
that all of my friends are using.
I get that - I am suffering a bit too. [...]
Posted by mobile phone:The top prize at the world`s most important advertising festival has been awarded to an online campaign. This shows the extent to which the internet has rocked the advertising world.
The winner at Cannes was also significant for being an FMCG brand campaign. The “Evolution” film for Dove, Unilever`s skincare brand [...]
At the risk of contributing to the general hysteria around Facebook at the moment I’ve been thinking that Facebook could become THE PLATFORM for friends across all social apps.
My thoughts run something like this:
I don’t like having to invite new friends every time I join a new social media site
Maintaining friends lists across multiple [...]
As a VC getting good feedback is hard. Nobody wants to run the risk of annoying you so they only ever come through with compliments. A case in point - the talk I gave at NMK 07 last week should have been better - I knew that as soon as I got off [...]
Updated: I have toned down the title following views in the comments
This is from Ivan Pope’s End of Podcasting post on Vecosys:
You know that Podcasting is over as a bankable concept when companies start rebranding themselves to escape the word.
Too true - looking for the hidden meaning in language is both fun and instructive, [...]
It happens via the newsfeeds.
This is from Marc Andreessen’s post on the Facebook API:
Facebook is providing a highly viral distribution engine
for applications that plug into its platform. As a user, you get
notified when your friends start using an application; you can then
start using that same application with one click. At which point, all
of your friends [...]
Earlier this year I posted on the attributes of consumer internet start-ups that are likely to hit critical mass. Good sensible stuff about identifying your early adopters, making the product work for them, having a good distribution strategy (remember distribution is to consumer internet as location is to retail) and finally understanding the “essence” [...]
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