Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media
This is more from Taleb’s Fooled by Randomness - which I am still enjoying very much.
Taleb is mostly talking about traders in publicly listed highly liquid securities, but much of what he says has relevance to venture capital (which after all is trading of a sort - albeit with long time horizons and the ability [...]
Check out the numbers in this excerpt from a Commentisfree report on the Edinburgh television festival last weekend.
On the eve of the festival, with consummate timing, Ofcom released its Communications Market Report - a study that reads like a pre-recorded obituary of the television industry. In 338 pages of close-set type, Ofcom lays out how [...]
When I think about enterprise2.0 I think lightweight collaboration. For a while now I have been thinking that easy to use shared work spaces like Huddle and Basecamp is the main component. Recently I have started to think that micro-blogging is also important (status updates to Huddle anyone?).
Today I am thinking ‘Groups’ is an equally [...]
Two commenters on my post yesterday Blocking ads is taking a free ride show the passion this issue evokes. It seems people really don’t like ads - or at least the digerati doesn’t.
There were a couple of points - the first from Tom Raftery making the point that a lot of sites are available [...]
Over on Broadstuff in (Ad) ventures in Wonderland Alan writes about a website owner who has barred Firefox users from his site in response to the rising popularity of a Firefox extension that blocks ads (originally from Infoworld):
A Web site owner has blocked Firefox users from accessing his site in protest of a popular browser [...]
If you follow the Seedcamp Blog you will know that applications to participate in startup-school-cum-incubator-cum-fund’ Seedcamp closed twelve days ago and yesterday was Judges Day where the 268 applications was whittled down to the 20 that will be invited to Seedcamp week.
The number of great companies was awesome to see. By definition they were all [...]
A couple of days ago I wrote a post Why are we concerned about privacy? in which I argued that sharing personal some personal data in return for better services was a good trade off. Alan Patrick and I had a privacy versus sharing debate in the comments which left me thinking that to [...]
I was pleased to read today on Marketing Pilgrim about YouTube premiering InVideo ads. It is at once a little surprising that they haven’t done something before now and a testimony to the problems of pre-rolls that they haven’t. (For a long time YouTube have had display ads around their videos - I am specifically [...]
For those of you that haven’t come across the term before micro-blogging is the business of sending out small communications to your friends on a frequent basis. The main tools for this are Twitter, Jaiku and status updates on services like Facebook.
This is a newish development and is one of those things that polarises people [...]
This post has been forming in the back of my mind since I read Privacy and Personalisation: From Clickstream to Targeted Advertising on Read/Write web last week. I was waiting until I met with Luke Razzell this morning to discuss the final two posts in our identity and startups series to make sure there wasn’t [...]
