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Archive for October 12th, 2008


Startup Denial at the Future of Web Apps

Sunday, October 12th, 2008 9:00 pm from  GigaOM by Guest Column

A deluge of European startups descended on London’s ExCel Centre for the Future of Web Apps 2008 conference this week, and while the economic crisis has already reached Europe, the fear clearly hasn’t reached its startup community. Mark Rochefort of London-based digital marketing agency Playlab suggested to me that ad-driven business models could meet with more success during the credit crunch, as online metrics give advertisers instant feedback on their campaigns, something that i...

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12 Steps to Short-Circuit the Fundraising Marathon

Sunday, October 12th, 2008 6:00 pm from  GigaOM by Carleen Hawn

Fundraising always demands patience and grit, but passing the hat in the current environment will test your founder’s mettle unlike any time in recent history. Even investors still flush cash that, only weeks ago, they had planned to put to work, now have grown skittish over the frozen credit markets and are knotting their purse strings instead. If you’re looking for financing, be prepared to work very, very hard for it. This is true even for the most seasoned entrepreneurs, like Sc...

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Wall Street Journal: Turn On, Tune Out, Click Here

Sunday, October 12th, 2008 5:58 pm from  The Jeff Pulver Blog by jeff

I enjoyed reading Nick Wingfield’s recent story in the the WSJ - Turn On, Tune Out, Click Here “TV Viewers Cut Cable’s Cord; Here’s What They’re Watching Online Instead” Nick’s story enforces thoughts I shared earlier this year in my blog post: Internet TV may pose threat to Cable Companies by 2012. “The Cable Version of “Wireless Conversion” is going to happen. For the past eight years, billions of dollars of fixed-line revenue has been lost by phone companies around t...

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Michael Robertson: Use Skype - Go Directly To A Chinese Prison

Sunday, October 12th, 2008 12:49 am from  Skype Journal by Phil Wolff

Reposted with permission from Michael Robertson’s blog. A research firm recently revealed that eBay and TOM are colluding with the Chinese government to spy on users of Skype. Together they monitored user’s text chats and stored those containing politically sensitive topics like freedom, democracy, Tibet, opposition to the communist party and Falun Gong. They also track voice call participants. Presumably they turned this data over to the government and it’s impossible to track...

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