Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-23 http://goo.gl/fb/beUYt # Danah Boyd, privacy on FB is complex and requires sensitive handling, talk of the company's death is premature http://bit.ly/a2suCS # Just finished the season finale of Lost and – turn away if you don't want to know – it was total schmalz # Productivity hack – [...]
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Netflix, the US internet DVD rental giant (and trans-Atlantic cousin of our portfolio company Lovefilm) has a good slide deck up on Slideshare which details their digital strategy and competitive threats. The slide below is from that deck and it shows they expect their DVD by mail business to peak in 2013. After 2013 [...] I’m going to talk with the board of one of our portfolio companies today about the characteristics of highly valued businesses and what they might do to get into that category, and my thoughts are below. I only really started thinking about what I was going to say last night and this morning and [...]
Slowly GPS is becoming a platform of incredible reach and power. It would be an over statement to say that it rivals the internet, but it is probably up there with the cellular networks. Beyond satnav devices, GPS is used to timestamp financial transactions, is relied upon by paging and mobile [...] Hot on the heels of Google TV Sony has announced a deal with HBO to release shows for the PlayStation 3 and PSP. From yesterday HBOS shows old and new, including True Blood and two of my favourites The Wire and The Sopranos were viewable on the PlayStation Network (probably only in the US). [...] This morning I got an email post from the Positivity Blog which lists five ways to overcome procrastination (see the box below, all good tips). The email immediately made me think of a form of procrastination I see frequently at startups, and that is avoiding asking questions where the answer might be one you [...] Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-16 http://goo.gl/fb/lp8Sc # Happy 5th birthday YouTube – now streaming 2bn vids per day, 6.6x the nearest competitor http://bit.ly/d2nToj # Google and Intel in TV launch – i hope their TV widgets are better than Yahoo's… http://bit.ly/dyrklL # paid iPhone apps average sales gross c$100k, take out the top [...] As you might have seen Google announced their new Google TV product yesterday which makes the full web available on your TV through software that will either be directly built into the TV or via a set top box (if you want it on your existing TV you will have to go the set [...] I tried out my second new blog editor in a week today after I downloaded BlogPress to my iPhone. It is a big step forward from using the WordPress web client, but still a long way behind the desktop. Setup was easy and I like the way it is very easy to [...] My dad used to work for Unilever and I remember him telling me how they used to have their own brand supermarkets but were forced to close them by Sainsbury and Tesco who didn’t want competition from their suppliers. Back then all the power lay with the retailer because they owned the consumer relationship. [...] |
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