Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media
There is a lot of negative chat about Twitter - broken business model, river of crap etc. etc. so I thought it was interesting to post this excerpt from Twitter is paying my rent over on Marshall Kirkpatrick’s blog:
People laugh at Twitter, and they can go ahead and laugh for all I care, but I’m [...]
Ivan on Snipperoo reported Ben Metacalfe’s announcement:
MySpace Developer Platform opening on Tuesday
So, after months of work by an amazing + passionate team (and I genuinely mean that) the MySpace Developer Platform is very close to being launched - in fact it will go live on 5th Feb.
I was thinking earlier this week that the social [...]
Paul McGuinness, manager of U2 for 30 years yesterday gave his view on the future of the music industry (reported in the FT):
Mr McGuinness, a highly-respected figure in the industry, yesterday told delegates to Midem, the music industry’s international trade show being staged in France, that they had concerned themselves for too long with the [...]
On Saturday Scoble pondered the question that is on everyone’s lips from his standpoint in Davos. I like the way he captures the two sides of the debate.
First the bull side:
I spoke with Steve Forbes last night (yes, that Steve Forbes) and he thinks that the doom and gloomers shouldn’t be listened to. He [...]
Fred Wilson wrote this yesterday in a post lamenting Murdoch’s announcement at Davos that he plans to expand the subscription area of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ):
Here’s the deal. Digital media is not about scarcity and never will be. That’s the old media game. Online it’s about ubiquity, about being part of the conversation, about [...]
I bought a new video camera on Amazon this weekend, and I also bought an extra battery and a couple of SD cards. So far so normal. The amazing thing to me is that I ended up buying each of these three items from different suppliers on Amazon’s market place, and the last of the [...]
Reporting on Slide’s rumoured $500m valuation Ivan on Snipperoo looks again at the question of widget business models. Apparently the valuation is based on Slide turning itself into an ad network. Ivan isn’t too thrilled and says:
It looks like all widget companies are trying to turn themselves at one level or another into ad networks [...]
On Friday last week Friday Ambac, one of the largest bond insurers was downgraded by Fitch Ratings. This is undoubtedly bad news for the world economy and stock markets took another pounding yesterday. You can read more about it in the FT.
I am reading Taleb’s Black Swan at the moment and I’m finding that it [...]
Kristian Segerstrale of Playfish left the following comment on my post last week about widgets and social networks. He is excited about the prospect for widget games on socnets - and if you read this post my guess is that you will be too (always assuming you aren’t already).
I’ve knows Kristian a while now and [...]
My last post of 2007 was entitled No predictions for 2008. I wrote that in part because I’m reading Taleb again and you can’t turn a page of his book without being reminded of how people are wrong more often than they are right when it comes to the business of forecasting the future, and [...]
