BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Tim O’Reilly has a great post on Google’s OpenSocial. At the end of the day, I couldn’t agree more with Tim’s thoughts that OpenSocial is great for developers but a who cares for users. If all OpenSocial does is allow developers to port their applications more easily from one social network to another, that’s a big win for the developer, as they get to shop their application to users of every participating social network.

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Jason Ball

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Email looks like it might be enjoying the end of its reign as the de facto killer app. The post and graph below from Hitwise really brings home where the web is going. For the first time last month, UK Internet visits to social networks (blue line) overtook visits to web-based email services (orange line). As the chart below illustrates, Hitwise’s category of the top 25 social networks, which includes Facebook, Bebo and MySpace, accounted for 5.17% of all UK Internet visits, compared to 4.

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aweissman.com

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Nov 5, 2007. The most interesting online ad news of the year. could be the new My Space targeted ad platform reported on by CNET and Tech Crunch. Looks like this is the fruit of the earlier Fox Interactive Media acquisition of Strategic Data Corp. earlier this year.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Someone highly salaried : "You know what our problem is? We have too many damn tools!" Me : "Oh, hm…" Someone highly salaried : "Thanks for agreeing with me, now please help us fix it!" Me : "No I meant, oh hmmmmmmm. " Someone highly salaried : "What do you mean? You are not going to solve my problem of getting a single source of truth for all my web data?

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Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

There is a ton of hype on the wireless front especially with the announcement of Android, the Google operating system for mobile phones. I too am quite excited about the prospects of having applications that are written once on the Google OS that can be ported to any other phone on any other network that also supports the Google OS. If any of you have developed apps in the wireless world, that is not exactly how it works as even apps built on the Java Micro Edition Platform need to be tweaked fo

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