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This post was inspired by an article (not available free online) in the October edition of PCPlus and is a follow up to my two earlier posts Competing with Google – it can be done and Google becoming the old guard – and what is next. As I’ve said before Google is a [...]
This was on Broadstuff yesterday: I believe this is the day that Google officially handed over its crown as leader of the New Wave of Internet companies. It has now confirmed that it is becoming de facto Old Web Establishment. This is their Netscape Moment, when it becomes clear they are not [...]
There has been a post about competing with Google at the back of my mind for some time and now they have agreed to buy YouTube for $1.65bn it has come to the top of the list. This has been covered extensively so I won’t do that here. For a VC perspective check [...] Fred at A VC and Val at alarm:clock both posted on the recent Venturesource data which shows that in H106 $262m was invested in 49 web2.0 companies in the US. Their perspectives differed – Val felt it wasn’t much out of a total of $13bn. Fred was ambivalent – web2.0 is a hot space after [...]
World of Warcraft is starting to look like a huge hit for Vivendi – see this article in the Sunday Times yesterday for some numbers. Interesting to me though was the real world/alternate world crossover. Whilst this is not on the same scale as Second Life it is interesting to read: The game has [...] This table has a stab at listing web2.0 investments by VC. Kind of interesting to see the spread. A couple of observations: Accel, Benchmark and DFJ look the busiest in this sector Kleiner only have a couple of deals Very good to see my old friend and colleague Jeff Clavier in there and so active, [...] This just resonates with me. To give the full quote from the excellent blog of A VC The internet is being reconstructed around people instead of pages/content And to give credit where credit is due he attributes it to his partner Brad Burnham. This captures an awful lot of what is going on. For example: [...] It will happen this autumn and cover argument. Check out this post for details. The video is comedy. Watching this video made me think that my interest in real/alternate world convergence may be running way ahead of any chance of commercialisation. It brings home how hard it is to make things happen in SL. |
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