Category Archives: Web 2.0

Social Commerce

Posted on December 2, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

I finally did it. Earlier in the week I noticed that Wikipedia didn’t have a page for social commerce, so I tried to create one. 30+mins into it, IE 7.0.5730.11 crashed (too many tabs open) and I lost my work. … Continue reading →

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Monetizing Social Networks

Posted on December 1, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

The MIT VC Conference is tomorrow. I’m taking part in a panel on monetizing social networking businesses. It promises to be a very interesting discussion, judging by the emails that have been flying between the panelists and the caliber of … 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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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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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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Mashups and DMCA

Posted on October 18, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

Copyright and intellectual property questions are starting to pop-up around mashups. For example, Denise Howell recently wrote in Lawgarithms about mashups and patentability. Someone asked me today whether they could file a patent application concerning their Google Maps mashup.  Not being a … Continue reading →

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Venture Capital Video

Posted on October 17, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

I was playing with the Magnify.net beta and created a simple site with VC related videos–VCVideo. I haven’t tracked down Borat’s VC pitch yet…

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Ouch, that hurts

Posted on October 6, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

Jeff Nolan points out in Venture Chronicles that East Coast VCs just don’t get it when it comes to Web 2.0. Harsh words but then he asks “where are the Web 2.0 companies on the East Coast?” Is it case … Continue reading →

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Amazon Web Services & Standards?

Posted on September 28, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

I’ve been thinking more about AWS since Jeff Bezos’s talk yesterday. Whenever infrastructure outsourcing comes up, the question of standards is not far away. Amazon can wait for its services to become de facto standards or they can lead with … Continue reading →

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