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 [...]
I attended an NMK seminar on vendor relationship management (VRM) last night (thanks to Ian Delaney for organising a great event). This is an area I have been getting excited about recently, and I posted some early thoughts here (the comments are also worth a read).
Unfortunately I had to leave the seminar early so I’m [...]
For me, it is increasingly the case that a lot of the best software is open and extensible, at least to an extent. The inspiration for this post came when I was playing with the photo sharing software and service from Jalbum last week, but it is true for a wide range of companies, from [...]
Fred Wilson wrote this yesterday in a post lamenting Murdoch’s announcement at Davos that he plans to expand the subscription area of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ):
Here’s the deal. Digital media is not about scarcity and never will be. That’s the old media game. Online it’s about ubiquity, about being part of the conversation, about [...]
I have blogged a couple of times on the one internet versus two question, and it seems the debate is still raging - Alan Patrick wrote a great post on the subject last Sunday over on Broadstuff.
There are a couple of things I want to pull out from that post. Firstly his concise statement of [...]
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.
Thanks to Nick Carr for putting this from the Guardian on RoughType
The formerly libertarian landscape has been overrun by rampaging nouveau-capitalists. They want centralised governance and stern economic ruling. Everyone is a potential thief. Fingers are being pointed and, in some extreme cases, avatars are being attacked. The digital idyll has become a world of [...]
I want to thank the folks at LibraryHouse for putting on a great conference today. The things I liked about it were, in no particular order:
It was buzzy - London feels like a good place to be an entrepreneur right now and events like this are an important part of the mix
Bob Young - [...]
Rivers Run Red have been doing a lot of cool stuff in Second Life for a while now, including work with Duran Duran and Adidas (who have sold 18,000 pairs of virtual trainers).
They announced just before I went on holiday that they were launching a TV channel inside Second Life. According to the press release 24/7 [...]
Microsoft seems to be losing all its old bad behaviours and changing to become an open, participative player in the new world. And all power to them. I think it is the right move strategically and it should open up opportunities for entrepreneurs and VCs.
I posted a couple of weeks ago that Microsoft are going after the [...]
