This morning Thomas Power tweeted out a link to an Inside Facebook post which compares Facebook and Twitter as distribution channels for journalists which prompted me to finally push Facebook integration for this blog to the top of my to-do list. If you are reading this on the site itself you will be [...]
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As you have probably heard Quora has seen a big increase in signups and activity since Christmas. The chart to the left shows the massive growth in Quora signups. It was posted yesterday by a Quora employee. I first signed up a few months ago and whilst I asked a couple of questions and [...] Some of you will have caught the Tweet I sent on Friday asking for suggestions of new hosting companies for TheEquityKicker. Regular readers will know I think speed is important for websites and primarily for this reason I have been meaning to move away from Bluehost (my old hosting company) for a little while and was [...] I have just returned from a long weekend in Iceland with my wife Fiona. It was a great trip, and we saw some awe inspiring sights, most notably ice breaking off from a glacier and floating down the river (picture below) and the Strokkur geyser, but at no time did I feel like broadcasting [...] Refining my investment theses and generating dealflow aretwo of the most important reasons that I blog, and we had a good day on bothcounts yesterday. In the morning I read an FT article about mobile couponswhich prompted me to write a post on the topic. As usual the process of writingthat post [...] I used to be a big user of the Scribefire Firefox plugin and so I was keen to try out their new extension for Chrome when I heard it was released a week or two back. I just used it to write a post about mobile vouchers and I’m using it again to write [...] A UK court ruled yesterday that The Times newspaper has the right to name Richard Horton as the (until now anonymous) author of the Night Jack blog about policing in the UK (the blog was here, but the content has been deleted). The ruling has been covered in the FT and on [...] From ars technica: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act is supposed to balance the rights of copyright holders and online authors, while protecting Internet service providers from getting caught in the crossfire. But Google’s policy for handling DMCA notices seems to leave bloggers with scant hope of getting improperly removed content restored. ….. ….. [...] In another sign that Twitter is crossing the chasm, or at least getting close to it, the FT today had a full page analysis on the company and its prospects under the heading Sweet to tweet, which made me think again about how the business will scale. That thought process took me back [...] The life of the VC is a perennial search for the next big thing, and Steve Gillmor had a great post on TechCrunchIT yesterday arguing that it will be ‘realtime’. He puts it thus: As Marc Andreessen reminds in his fascinating conversation with Charlie Rose, the Internet didn’t take off until the browser. The [...] |
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