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Archive for 2008
Google: What Goes Up…
Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Business models, Economy, Gerbsman Partners, google, Investments, Market research, Strategy, Technology, Web 2.0 on April 9, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Streetspotting with Google Maps
Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Business models, Gerbsman Partners, google, Market research, Strategy, Technology, Web 2.0 on April 7, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Google Maps have kept rolling out Streetview inside its maps section. Covering some 37 cities and more, the feature makes very good use of mesh and Web 2.0 technologies. Just type in your address and click on the street view button and hopefully they have cruised by and snapped some photos. Below is a sample from Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco
With a 360degrees zoom-able picture, its is an amazing trip down memory lane where I go visit places. Of course, there are some funny pictures to find aside from all the usefulness. Click here to see Mashables top-15 list of strange and fun pictures. Click here for Google’s own blog on the topic.
Brace for $1 Trillion Writedown of `Yertle the Turtle’ Debt
Posted in Uncategorized on April 2, 2008| Leave a Comment »
A recent book release by Charles R. Morris is putting the finger on a very serious economy that will shake down to what he estimates being $1 Trillion write down.
“Yet $1 trillion is the amount of defaults and writedowns Americans will likely witness before they emerge at the far side of the bursting credit bubble, estimates Charles R. Morris in his shrewd primer, “The Trillion Dollar Meltdown.” That calculation assumes an orderly unwinding, which he doesn’t expect.”
For more reading, go to this Bloomberg review .
Mobile Video Broadcast
Posted in Community, Intellectual capital, Investments, Java, Mobile, Mobile Phone Usage, Social Networks, Sun Microsystems, Technology, Web 2.0, Wireless, Wireless 2.0 on March 28, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Recently, Mashable, Techcrunch and others have posted some good articles on mobile broadcast video. A number of companies have recently launched Mobile broadcast services; FlixWagon, Qik and Youtube´s recent addition of direct upload capabilities in the Latest API all supports this trend – mobile broadcast.
Where I am very skeptical to the live mobile-to-web broadcast option, the pre-packaged service to record and upload mobile video directly is neat and useful. The problem of the mobile video and mobile broadcast today is that while it is recorded on mobile, users download the clip to their PC´s and then uploaded to the web – which limits many good clips to reach the masses on the web through its complexity.
These small Java applications are easy to install and easy to use. With the pre-set upload assistance, mobile videos are uploaded directly to the web either as live streams or saved clips. Where geeks and techies where the only ones capable of this before, anyone can now make it happen. I wonder how quickly manufacturers and Telco´s will jump on this and pre-install these applications and affiliations to drive usage and network traffic.
Economic gloom hits the VC world
Posted in BusinessWeek, Economy, Investments, Market research, Venture Capital on March 24, 2008| Leave a Comment »
SCOTT AUSTIN’S THE WEEK IN VENTURE CAPITAL
Economic gloom hits the VC world
Commentary: Crunch may result in crisis for some fledgling companies
By Scott Austin
Interesting article regarding VC portfolio companies and market.
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