Archive for October 11th, 2008
The Bell Now Tolls for Social Networks
I blame David Hasselhoff. Everything was going fine for the web — the financial world had been unwinding its overleveraged excesses for nearly a year without nary a ripple into Silicon Valley — until the launch of HoffSpace, a social network revolving around the oogachaka-ing, burger-wagging actor. Some bloggers called it a bizarre nightmare. Others decried it as the end of social networks. They were probably joking. But they were right. Hoffspace showed once and for all what the we...
4 Ways to Wring Opportunity from the Chaos
The economy is changing in dramatic and unexpected ways, and many of us are having a difficult time deciding how to react. Should we adopt a bunker mentality, or keep plugging ahead as if little has changed? The fact is that entrepreneurs are well-suited to respond to the chaos, perhaps even to use it to our advantage, because we recognize that every challenge really presents a new opportunity. To anyone heading a startup, steeling yourself for the ups and downs of circumstances that are often...
Looking forward to being a Judge at CEAs i-stage Competition on Oct 20th
On October 20th 2008, Ryan Block (Wired Magazine), Kevin Kelly (formerly of Engadget) and I will be the judges at the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) new technology competition, i-stage taking place at the the Four Seasons Hotel in Las Vegas. i-stage is a technology event featuring the most innovative new consumer technology products that will soon come to market. The winner of the i-stage competition will receive $50,000 to develop its product line, as well as free turnkey exhibit spac...
SkypeOut Feature Added to 3’s Skype-Enabled Phones
Mobile carrier pioneer 3 has taken another step that reduces costs for mobile calling worldwide from any of the Skype-enabled mobile phone handsets in their offering. Effectively it means that 3’s customers can not only make free calls to other Skype contacts but also to any landline and mobile worldwide via an implementation of a SkypeOut type of service at SkypeOut rates. Skype-to-Skype calls remain totally free as well as Skype Instant Messaging activity. As a result 3’s pricing p...
Is the Sky Really Falling?
There’s a lot of the end-of-Web 2.0 bandwagon-jumping happening in the wake of Sequoia holding a meeting earlier this week with its portfolio CEOs, and Seesmic announcing yesterday it will lay off seven of its employees, or one third of its staff. Yes, the global economic landscape is volatile and there are dark clouds of uncertainly looming but everyone seems to be jumping to conclusions without offering much perspective. TechCrunch, which has built an empire profiling Web 2.0 startups, ...
Some Texas Optimism for Tech Startups
I live in Texas, where during the tech bubble folks were walking around saying that it was nothing compared to the real estate crisis of the late 80s. So now seemed like a good time to chat with Austin Ventures, which has been investing in the state since 1979 and announced two funds worth a total of $900 million in September, a few days after the markets started to collapse. I spoke with general partner Chris Pacitti, who told me that once the firm, which has a reputation for being financially...
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Obama Campaigning on Xbox 360?
This is either a brilliant Photoshop job, some canny viral political campaigning, or both: An Xbox 360 gamer playing Burnout Paradise spotted an Obama campaign billboard with a “Paid for by Obama for President” caption as he whizzed by in his turbocharged sports car, Game Politics is reporting. The site was unable to confirm the ad’s authenticity with Burnout publisher Electronic Arts; I’ve left messages with both EA and the Obama campaign and will update this post if ...
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