Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, boic, Business models, Distressed IP, Economy, Gerbsman Partners, Intellectual capital, Investments, Market research, Moneytree, MoneyTree report, National Venture Capital Association, NVCA, PricewaterhouseCoopers, PWC, Strategy, Venture Capital, Venturebeat, tagged MoneyTree report, National Venture Capital Association, PriceWaterhouse Coopers, Venturebeat on April 21, 2008| Leave a Comment »
“Venture investment fell 8.5 percent during the first three months of 2008 compared to the final quarter of 2007, according to the new MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association.”
To read more on the MoneyTree report, go to VentureBeat´s excellent article here.
Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Community, Gerbsman Partners, Intellectual capital, Technology, Web 2.0, Wireless, tagged Hook Mobile, MMS, mobile revenues, monetizing on mobile, multimedia, new mobile technology, Social Networks on April 15, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Here is a good example on how Wireless 2.0 is enabling Web 2.0 services to generate cash. Paul Ruppert describes Hook Mobile’s services best when saying “… generates additional revenues for social networks and their application developers by offering an open API that delivers a “low calorie” multimedia experience using MMS.”
His prediction in the end of the article may not be so far off when he states that Hook may be on Facebook very soon.
Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Community, Gerbsman Partners, Intellectual capital, Technology, Uncategorized, Web 2.0 on April 13, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Social networkers rejoice; MySpace has finally launched a games portal. According to the page’s mission statement, the site promises “the best online games available in a safe, user-friendly environment” and targets all types of gamers.
As Facebook continues to affirm its role as social networkers’ casual gaming epicenter. MySpace’s portal, while impressive, fails to draw in the ever so important multiplayer crowd.
With the buzz surrounding so-called “casual gaming” as of late, so it’s no great surprise that MySpace wants a piece of the pie. What´s surprising is that it toke them so long to launch. As a late comer, MySpace will have to play the role of catch up – which can prove to be very costly.
The number of games offered is impressive, although less then Yahoo! Games.
Whichever social network you call home, any increased competition should benefit both sides. It´s only natural to believe that some of Facebook’s more popular games come to MySpace in the near future.
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.
Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Economy, Intellectual capital, Investments, Market research, Strategy, Venture Capital on March 23, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Here is a very scary and (I am afraid) very accurate analysis from the Wall St. Journal.
“It is a very logical progression. Peloton, Carlyle, Focus — hedge funds and other non-deposit-taking financial institutions (NDFIs) are now being hit by the credit crunch, which had so far been mainly confined to mortgage lenders and the banks.”
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