Monthly Archives: November 2006

Mobile Advertising: Not If, But When And How

Posted on November 8, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

People seem to fall in two camps with respect to mobile advertising: those who see it as an imminent opportunity of significant size and those who say it’s a few years off. No one is willing to say that mobile advertising … Continue reading →

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Adobe partners with Mozilla on Tamarin

Posted on November 7, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

Adobe announced a partnership with the Mozilla Foundation. Adobe contributed the code for the ActionScript 3.0 VM that powers Flash Player 9. Why is this noteworthy? Because the new VM is a speed demon and the folks at Mozilla working … Continue reading →

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The Mobile Stack Evolves

Posted on November 7, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

MocoNews confirms what has been talked about for months now–that Voda is making a major shift in how it selects its devices. No more proprietary phone OSs developed by clueless ODMs who really don’t get SW. Voda’s future will be based … Continue reading →

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Mix2r Launching

Posted on November 3, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

Duane Nickull, one of Adobe’s sharpest, is launching a Web 2.0 project tomorrow called Mix2r. Simply stated – it is open source  music.The music collaboration site is an online portal that orchestrates the workflow musicians and songwriters use to create and record … Continue reading →

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The Web-Based Office++

Posted on November 3, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

Emergence is a strong, albeit sometimes unpredictable force. The past two weeks have been full of some interesting conversations/observations. Google bought JotSpot. I was reminded yet again that Google Calendar is a great product, Gmail is a strange one and … Continue reading →

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Amazon’s Strategy: Too Risky?

Posted on November 3, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

BusinessWeek has a good piece on the likely response of Wall Street to Amazon Web Services becoming a big part of Amazon’s business. It’s a legitimate question. More info in previous posts.

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Picking & Funding Winners

Posted on November 2, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

One can argue that the rules for picking winning startups have evolved over the last ten years. In Bubble 1.0, you could have used a dart against a Broadview market map. Bubble 2.0 is all about consumer online/mobile plays, which … Continue reading →

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MAXimum Burn

Posted on November 1, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

I haven’t posted in nearly two weeks because I’m still recovering from Adobe MAX 2006. Yes, it was in Vegas and, yes, the Macromedians (at least) know how to party till very early in the morning. Plus, two of my … Continue reading →

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