Tag Archives: Google

Polaris Digital Media Summit

Posted on February 3, 2008 by Simeon Simeonov

I spent the last few days in Deer Valley, UT at the annual Polaris Venture Partners Digital Media Summit or PVPDMS08 as we casually refer to it (right). It’s a great event where the CEOs of our digital media companies mix … Continue reading →

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Too Much Power?

Posted on January 14, 2008 by Simeon Simeonov

Does Google already have too much power online? Or it is that investors perceive this to the the case? Personally, I doubt that markets would have reacted as violently if GOOG wasn’t involved. Motley Fool makes a daring suggestion: If … Continue reading →

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OpenSocial: The Lowest Common Denominator?

Posted on December 13, 2007 by Simeon Simeonov

Google’s OpenSocial is becoming the lowest common denominator for application integration in the social media space. That’s actually not that great for Google as it is rarely the case that the most successful applications run on the lowest common denominator … Continue reading →

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Walt Mossberg and Verizon’s Move to Open Its Network

Posted on November 27, 2007 by Simeon Simeonov

I’m listening to Walt Mossberg speak at the Dow Jones Consumer Innovations conference. He began by pointing out that Verizon didn’t give him any credit when they announced the opening of the Verizon network. This is a huge deal, by … Continue reading →

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Google Addressing the "Facebook issue"

Posted on September 23, 2007 by Simeon Simeonov

I’ve been slammed with two financings but this news merits taking time on a Sunday night to blog… Ever since word got out that Brad Fitzpatrick (previously chief architect at Six Apart) had joined Google people had a pretty clear idea what Brad’s … Continue reading →

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Emerging Ecosystems & Platforms

Posted on July 12, 2007 by Simeon Simeonov

I’m at David Kirkpatrick’s iMeme conference in SF. It’s likely going to be a treat. The speakers and the attendees are of great caliber. As an ex-platform guy who’s recently spent a lot of time thinking about social infrastructure, I’m … Continue reading →

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Enterprises, Everybody Wants Your Data

Posted on July 10, 2007 by Simeon Simeonov

As storage gets cheaper, enterprises small and large accumulate more and more information. Finding the right information at the right time is becoming harder and harder. Information comes from many sources: email, IM, the Web and intranets, employee’s desktops, enterprise … Continue reading →

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Google Targets Enterprises With Postini Acquisition

Posted on July 9, 2007 by Simeon Simeonov

Another strategic move by Google–buying Postini for $625M. Postini has been a leader in the hosted email/IM security, archiving and compliance space. In addition to having well-thought out service offerings, the company has been able to operate on a big scale … Continue reading →

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Google Gears Powers Web-to-Desktop Convergence

Posted on May 31, 2007 by Simeon Simeonov

Google Gears will bring offline processing to AJAX applications, which promises to be a step towards closing the last big delta between traditional desktop and Web 2.0 applications. Web-to-desktop convergence is a very interesting topic and one that is bound to … Continue reading →

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Playing Monopoly in the Advertising Space

Posted on May 18, 2007 by Simeon Simeonov

So, let’s see: Microsoft buys aQuantive for $6B (2x price premium suggests some deal competition) Google buys DoubleClick for $3.1B (beats Microsoft) WPP buys 24/7 Media for $649M (Microsoft was also looking at it) Yahoo buys Right Media for $680M … Continue reading →

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