Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-21 http://goo.gl/fb/bxz4 # Collecting best practices http://goo.gl/fb/8AkN # State of the app store market – it is still all about Apple http://goo.gl/fb/ojES # Watching a google maps and maps api demo – it's very cool, if a little geeky # Only 50% of Tweets in English, down from 66% [...]
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A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Edgar Bronfman, CEO of Warner Music Group, making negative public statements about free music streaming services. Now it seems the head of steam against Spotify, We7, et al is really building amongst industry execs, and possibly artists too. The new news is came yesterday from market [...] Goldman Sachs published the results of their eighth annual internet usage survey on Monday. Here are a couple of the highlights (data for the US except where otherwise stated): Time spent online on the desktop is flat at 22.5 hours per week Time spent online on a mobile (i.e. smartphone) is rising at a [...] There has been a lot of hype about augmented reality in recent months and it was great last week to see Layar, a Dutch business in this space announce a $3.4m venture round from Prime and Sunstone, but many people have been questioning whether there is anything other than hype. That might be about [...] Dutch app store analytics firm Distimo has some great info posted on ReadWriteWeb this morning. It is a long post and well worth the read if you are into this area. For those of you looking for a quick takeaway, check out the two graphs below. What you see is that Apple [...] Reading through emails and blogs yesterday afternoon I came to posts from engineers at Disqus and Twitter via Fred Wilson’s Code is craft post. I read them partly because Fred recommended them and partly because I was interested to hear what presumably talented engineers at successful services like Disqus and Twitter had to say [...] Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-14 http://goo.gl/fb/uGRT # Google’s rapid incorporation of customer feedback into product development http://goo.gl/fb/c7Pn # RT @ianbissell: RT @paidContent: Digital accounted for 22.45 of all Publicis revenues fr 2009 http://bit.ly/b78SNl # Google buys email search iPhone app company reMail and then discontinues product wtf? RT techcrunch http://tcrn.ch/c0dtvu # eBook prices [...] Now is a tough time to be in business as a startup. It’s a tough time for everyone pretty much, and internet entrepreneurs are no exception. Venture capital is tight, exits are difficult and the easy internet plays have all been done. These are statements I hear a lot, swiftly followed by the observation [...] Dharmesh Shah posted some great fundraising tips over on OnStartups last week. He should know a thing or two as well having raised $33m over three rounds for his latest company and as an angel investor in a number of other startups that have themselves raised venture capital. All nine tips are great. [...] We have all noticed how the pace of innovation is increasing – as an example, it is commonly noted that each new wave of communication services/devices gets widespread adoption much more quickly than the one before. Hotmail, Skype, social networks, Twitter, the iPhone, iPhone app usage – all of these are recent examples of [...] |
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