Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media
I write from time to time here about mass collaboration - and it is something I have been thinking about more recently as I read Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody. In a nutshell I’m excited about this space because the way the internet lowers the cost and barriers to collaboration has the potential to [...]
In a week where we have been talking about the New-new-thing it is good to see Sir Tim Berners-Lee chiming in with his thoughts on the future of the web - courtesy of the Beeb. Like most of us (I suspect), he thinks that the internt driven wave of innovation still has a long [...]
Last week Jeff Nolan wrote a post entitled Incrementalism and “The New New Thing” where he bemoans the lack of true innovation and the state of venture capital generally. He is talking about Silicon Valley, but what he writes applies equally over here in Europe.
He correctly observes that a lot of money is still [...]
The winner takes all dynamic of the web means that the rich get richer (Google, ebay, Amazon etc) yet at the same time the little guy is also doing well. He can now build stable niche businesses in a way that is only possible now every potential customer on the planet is only a click [...]
I bought a new video camera on Amazon this weekend, and I also bought an extra battery and a couple of SD cards. So far so normal. The amazing thing to me is that I ended up buying each of these three items from different suppliers on Amazon’s market place, and the last of the [...]
JP Rangaswami today has a post entitled What have you changed your mind about? - that is one I was always going to read. Changing our minds is something we don’t do nearly often enough. As Taleb points out in Black Swan, too often we treat ideas like treasured possessions, to be guarded and preserved. [...]
Back in June I briefly mentioned MyFootballClub, a site which was collecting pledges of £35 from UK football fans which it would use to buy a football club once it had secured sufficient commitment.
On Monday they got there and announced the acquisition of Ebbsfleet United - a club that plays in the Blue Square League [...]
eBay is a fantastic business. It provides a great service to us all and has made great money for its shareholders (at least the early ones). There were 559 million items listed on the site in the second quarter. That is a huge number.
But the share price has struggled over the last [...]
Check out this link for a list mass collaboration/open source style projects. The link is to an EU site, but the projects are all over the world. About 50 of them. They are all non-software.
Thanks for the link Marc.
The games industry could be about to hit a period of massive disruption. The thesis comes from a presentation on Tuesday by Chris Anderson, author of The Long Tail (this link is for the original Wired article). In a nutshell the idea is that the video games market has got to a point [...]
