Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media
Samuel Brittan has a prominent article in the FT today entitled It is time to jettison the forecasts - and who am I to argue with that?
This chimes with Taleb’s view of the world as expressed in Fooled by Randomness and more recently The Black Swan. In a nutshell the idea is that events are [...]
I was ill yesterday and so had to dial in to a board meeting. That is something I really try to avoid doing because I think it is much better to go in person. That is partly because it is usually difficult to hear everything when you are on the speaker phone but it is [...]
I’m getting increasingly interested in the notion of social graphs and how the concept extends beyond our friends list on Facebook. The basic idea is that the list of who you communicate with and how frequently is an information set that can be mined to create valuable services. Put that way your list of Facebook [...]
With all the bruhaha going on about Facebook’s Beacon it is good to see them back in the headlines for positive reasons. The news is that they are opening up the architecture of their platform, the impact of which, apparently, is that other social networks will be able to licence the code and update themselves [...]
My daughter Eira was watching kids TV programme Ernie the Engine on Saturday and I was struck by how lifelike the faces on the animated characters are. They were lifelike and not at all disconcerting - so much so that I was left wondering whether children’s TV characters are coming through the uncanny valley.
I had [...]
Every now and again I get a reminder that the world only changes very slowly. I’ve had one this week.
On Tuesday I wrote a post entitled The user is in control where I talked about how social sites are becoming a bit like democracies and how to succeed they needed to do what their users [...]
Posted by mobile phone:Today I received a reminder of the breadth of Google’s ambitions. I met two very different companies who both see Google playing an important role in their markets. One was an exchange for offline media and the other was a mobile handset manufacturer.
Ambitions in these two areas go alongside [...]
Posted by mobile phone:Regular readers will know I have been wondering for a while now what it is that will get people watching TV via the web. The existing product is good, not perfect, but evidently good enough for an awful lot of people. To frame the question another way I have been [...]
One of the interesting things about social media is that consumers are party to key strategy decisions. It used to be that senior management made their decisions and they played out over time as the market gave it’s verdict on the changes to the product, service or brand. I remember first thinking this back during [...]
Posted by mobile phone:I blogged a couple of weeks ago about how having a cool personality can really help a site. I gave a couple of examples but as I sit here at LeWeb listening to Kevin Rose I realise I forgot to mention Digg, which is possibly the best example of all.
