Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media
Online advertising continues to grow fast fueled by increasing consumption of entertainment online and growth in ecommerce (up 38% YoY according to NMA).
That is the good news.
The bad news is that outside of search the existing models are coming under strain due to banner blindness and lack of tolerance for interrupt advertising. The industry [...]
Reported in the FT this morning Canadian oil and gas engineer Brian Hunter is using Facebook to co-ordinate frustrated retail investors in the £33bn Canadian asset backed commercial paper (ABCP) market:
As a 53-year-old oil and gas engineer living in Calgary, Alberta, Brian Hunter might seem neither a likely Facebook enthusiast nor an investor activist.
Yet Mr [...]
My daughter Eira was watching kids TV programme Ernie the Engine on Saturday and I was struck by how lifelike the faces on the animated characters are. They were lifelike and not at all disconcerting - so much so that I was left wondering whether children’s TV characters are coming through the uncanny valley.
I had [...]
A couple of days ago I wrote a post Why are we concerned about privacy? in which I argued that sharing personal some personal data in return for better services was a good trade off. Alan Patrick and I had a privacy versus sharing debate in the comments which left me thinking that to [...]
