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The social media bandwagon continues

I fully expect the next year to be very grim – and that will impact the social media sector as much as everywhere else, maybe even more.  Time Warner’s announcement yesterday of a $25bn goodwill writedown was partially attributed to slowdown at AOL and we can expect more news like this.

But the fundamentals [...]

January 8th, 2009 | Category: Social networks, Social software | 8 comments

Shared data services – the next frontier?

I have an interest in cloud computing from two angles:

software infrastructure via our investment in Zeus (which is making some great headway in this space); and what it means for web apps

So I took the time yesterday to read this long, but very interesting article on cloud by Paul Miller that [...]

January 7th, 2009 | Category: Business models, Innovation, Startup general interest, Venture Capital | 13 comments

Mobile content is BIG business

I am reading an excerpt from Tomi Ahonen‘s December report on mobile, the 7th Mass Media – and boy the numbers are big.  As a quick highlight he has total mobile content in 2008 at $71bn – and yes, you read that right .

Within that mobile music, gaming, television/video and social networking are [...]

January 6th, 2009 | Category: Mobile | 7 comments

Online video stats – long form content is doing well

Novermber 2008 data just out from Comscore and reported by NewTeeVee and Broadstuff, amongst others, shows that in the US online video consumption was up 34% from Nov 07-Nov 08 at 12.7bn video views.  The number of unique viewers grew at only 6% to 98m – roughly flat as a percentage of the US [...]

January 6th, 2009 | Category: Content, Google, IPTV, TV, Video | 10 comments

The future of venture capital

Over the weekend I had been thinking I would post today on the health of the venture capital industry and then when I read in the FT this morning that the US venture capital sector faces an shake-out and investment cut my mind was set.

The FT was reporting on Venture Source data (previously [...]

January 5th, 2009 | Category: Exits, Venture Capital | 13 comments
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