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Monthly Archives: August 2006
Not Web 2.0, Bubble 2.0
Just like in the Bubble 1.0 days, the mainstream press is starting to question some of what’s happening online these days. If I recall correctly, how it proceeds from here is as follows: more questions combined with more interest, exuberance, irrational … Continue reading
Posted in VC, Venture Capital, Web 2.0
Tagged Bubble 2.0, Industry News, Polaris Venture Partners, social networking, VC, Venture Capital, Web 2.0
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Geotagging is a feature
Flickr’s native geotagging integration has re-kindled the debate on whether one can create sticky community sites around geotagging. That’s the wrong question to ask. Geotagging is a feature. It hasn’t been hard to do technically for quite a while. Just … Continue reading
Posted in Flickr, Mobile, startups, Web 2.0
Tagged Flickr, Geotagging, Mobile, social networking, startups, Web 2.0
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Flickr Photos Geotagged at 50K/hour
Flickr finally released its geotagging feature. It’s a simple drag’n’drop interface onto a Yahoo! map. 1.2M geotagged photos in 24 hours is about 50K/hour, which is an impressive rate even for a feature that was “pre-sold” for a while. There … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Media, Flickr
Tagged B2C, Digital Media, Flickr, Geotagging, Industry News
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EBay & Google: another big alliance
Ebay and Google have partnered around foreign ads. This shows the importance of Europe and the emerging markets. It also points to the increasingly complicated online landscape. EBay would have loved to partner with someone else but their options weren’t … Continue reading
Tagged Industry News
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Mobile e-literature, Sugar Mama, Stash: Virgin Does it All
Okay, so I’m on vacation and not spending much time on the Net. That would explain the increased number of WSJ-sourced posts. Anyway, WSJ reports on yet another way to drive SMS traffic, this time through content especially created for the … Continue reading
Bob Metcalfe Responds to IEEE
Finally, here is the response from my partner Bob Metcalfe, posted on my partner Mike Hirshland’s blog. Link to VCMike’s Blog » Guest Blogger Bob Metcalfe: Metcalfe’s Law Recurses Down the Long Tail of Social Networks
Tagged Metcalfe's Law
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The meaning of Web Services
…is apparently going down the drain as the WSJ article below considers broadband access to be a “web service”. I guess Web services are the new “OO” or “Internet-based”. Link to HighContrast » Boeing Shuts Connexion: no more high-speed Internet … Continue reading
Tagged Broadband, Web Services
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Boeing Shuts Connexion: no more high-speed Internet access on planes
After investing over $1B and making less than $50M in revenues, Boeing has shut down its project for satellite-based high-speed Net access on planes. Boeing acknowledged in June that it was in talks with commercial-satellite operators and other potential suitors, … Continue reading
WSJ.com – Cable Industry May Need to Spend Heavily on Broadband Upgrades
WSJ reports on a Cable Labs research that puts some extra pressure on cable companies. While the truth is likely somewhere in the middle, this is good news for startups such as our Narad Networks. The report is inflaming some cable executives who insist … Continue reading
EDU 2.0: The naming craze continues
Graham Glass (founder of The Mind Electric, which built Glue and sold to webMethods) has released the beta of his open education platform. The early beta of EDU 2.0 is now officially live. You can access the site at http://www.edu20.org. … Continue reading