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11.02.07OpenSocial: Hitting Facebook Like a Herd of Football Players
Social Media CommentsIs this how Facebook feels right now? Some reactions: Dave Winer: “Standards devised by one tech company whose main purpose is to undermine another tech company, usually don't work. In this case it's Google trying to undermine Facebook. And I don't think it's going to work” Fred Stutzman: Agrees with Dave Fred Wilson: “I like what Google is doing with Open Social. Ganging up on the leader is a time-honored way of competing. And a level playing field is usually good for the newcomers, and we have a portfolio full of newcomers” Nick O’Neil: “If you think that Facebook’s ...
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09.09.07Personal MiniFeeds vs. Lifestreams
Social Media CommentsFW has a post called, Rolling Your Own Mini Feed. Two questions come to mind: How is a 'mini feed' different from a 'life stream?' Since I am on trendy buzzword overload, maybe someone can clarify the difference for me... What benefit is there to the setup Eric Marcouiller has using separate silos for each feed (Twitter, Del.icio.us, Facebook, etc). Why not one stream that can be filtered and sorted based on the silo, but retains single stream elegance?
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08.25.07Summarizing the Credit-Crunch-Venture-Catalyst Discussion
Tech'nomics CommentsSome follow-ups on Keith Benjamin’s article on venture investing and the current credit crunch that stimulated the New York Times article I mentioned yesterday. Keith’s original post highlighted the fact that the credit crunch should negatively impact the number of buyouts and acquisitions we see in the tech space. However, as Keith asserts, this does not necessarily mean overall negative tech sector impacts. In fact Keith believes the credit crunch will actually ’stimulate’ growth in the VC investing space’ this is what the Times jumped all over. VentureBeat has since asked Keith to author a follow-up post, clarifying his positon. ...
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05.17.07It’s Connections Not Age that Counts
Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital CommentsBloggers have gone off on a tangent this week over several posts concerning the age of VC backed entrepreneurs. Valleywag put out the following graphic suggesting the optimal age for a ’homerun-level’ idea to be 26. I think it is important to note several points. These points should help to reassure any readers over 30 whose hopes for acquiring venture financing were discouraged. -Type of business. The Valleywag list primarily features disruptive technology companies. Of course youth will have an edge here since they are the ’early adopters’ and tend to have more time’ -Time. How many 40 year olds with a ...
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09.27.06I am Going to Tell You the Future of Social Networks - Listen Up!
Social Networking CommentsBy: Sam Huleatt Social networking is a very hot topic among young professionals and college students because social networks are engaging and they are fun. Because of this, millions of young people subscribe to various networks such as Facebook or MySpace or Friendster. And because millions of young people subscribe to them, other thousands of people are trying to make money off the popularity of these networks. Simple. However, for most fickle 20 somethings the 'shelf life' of a social network is inherently limited, unless the user receives some value that compels them to stay on the site. It's sort of like ...
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