Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media
Last week I had the good fortune of meeting Peter Hirshberg and today I checked out his blog and a write up of an interview Peter did with Brad Anderson, CEO of Best Buy, at the Google Zeitgeist conference in September.
It turns out that Best Buy has embraced the use of social media to empower [...]
There is good, if rather long, piece on ReadWriteWeb this morning about the future of the desktop. This topic is of wide ranging significance, particularly for anyone with an interest in cloud computing, desktop apps and the browser.
I would highlight these points the article makes:
None of the webtop services around today have really nailed [...]
Paul Graham of Y-Combinator publishes lists of what he thinks hot areas for startups. This helps channel his deal flow - this is, I think, a smart idea, and one of my motivations behind writing this blog. You can find his list here. The three that resonate most with me are:
3. New [...]
Last week I attended a Honda Earthdreams event at the kind invitation of 19 Entertainment. As well as the event being fun (Jensen Button talking, F1 car there to look at, lots of interesting people present…) I was struck by the strength and genuineness of the commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The F1 executives [...]
Carlotta Perez has long had a strong influence on my thinking, and a key part of that is the belief that the organisational structures and cultures that were optimal in the past may not be best going forward. She argues persuasively that the command and control mode of organisation that characterised the most successful firms [...]
I haven’t written much about E2.0 recently (except maybe in the Facebook sense) but I remain excited by its potential - in particular it is great to see British companies Yuuguu and Huddle continuing to do well.
Both these companies have what I call an edge-in adoption model - that is they aim to penetrate large [...]
Last week I blogged about Groups being an important concept, and I was making the point that you need tools to manage groups and that this might be a startup opportunity for someone. This excerpt from OnStartups where they have just migrated a group from LinkedIn to Facebook shows the customer pain point today and [...]
When I think about enterprise2.0 I think lightweight collaboration. For a while now I have been thinking that easy to use shared work spaces like Huddle and Basecamp is the main component. Recently I have started to think that micro-blogging is also important (status updates to Huddle anyone?).
Today I am thinking ‘Groups’ is an equally [...]
For those of you that haven’t come across the term before micro-blogging is the business of sending out small communications to your friends on a frequent basis. The main tools for this are Twitter, Jaiku and status updates on services like Facebook.
This is a newish development and is one of those things that polarises people [...]
I wrote about the underlying principles of Wikinomics when I started reading the book in June - I’ve come to the end of it now and in addition to my thoughts on the principles I discussed last time (being open, peering, sharing, and acting globally) the sheer weight of examples in the book has left [...]
