Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media
See this post from Christian of Electric Sheep Company which describes a Second Life object which plays real world audio and hence raises a WHOLE WORLD (geddit?!?) of copyright issues.
So, you can access real world audio inside Second Life. How long before your Rhapsody subscription is extendable there?
I’m interested in Second Life because it has [...]
I’ve been reading a lot about this lately - including Framfab blog/discussion page and Jeff Nolan and I’m seeing a few start-ups in this space in the UK.
Cool stuff, and I think there might be a software opportunity here. The idea is that enterprises empower employees to create their own tags for documents which are shared [...]
I haven’t talked about this yet but I love Second Life and the way the edges between virtual worlds and real worlds are blurring.
Now an Amazon store has opened
And this weekend Dell opened a real store in Dallas!!!
Since my last post I have learned a few things:
1) MySpace is flying - traffic wise - and has passed Yahoo! and Google in terms of page views. See Jeff Clavier for all the good news there. Although some claim that MySpace’s design produces a large number of extra page views - maybe 2-3 times as [...]
In the wake of the Benchmark Bebo deal and Myspace NewsCorp sometime before that I have been thinking about what these companies are worth.
On the one hand they have A WHOLE LOT OF TRAFFIC - so there is unquestionably some value there. The question, is how much?
Now I’m an old fashioned guy when it comes [...]
The promised post on trust awaits your perusal below.
In what is starting to be a tradition in this blog lets start by postulating what trust might be (and I’m talking in the very specific context of web trust systems - there is a very interesting wider debate on trust in society which I’ve blogged about [...]
This has been a big week for us - spin out from Caz and merger with Prelude completed. Office move started, and ongoing…..
All good fun and very exciting. I might have managed to have a few beers on Friday as well. And then a barbecue at Bob Hook’s house on Saturday for all the new [...]
My starting point here is that trust is somehow missing and that there may be some kind of opportunity here to build a big or probably even HUGE company providing that thing which is somehow missing.
It is easy to find examples where trust is present and has been a crititcal success factor - ebay’s rating [...]
Hello World
Right now I feel a bit like I did when I wrote my first java program.
So why am I doing this?
Because there is a conversation going on that I want to be part of. To add to. And to be provocative and develop my own thinking. (And maybe to give myself a back up [...]
