Sat.May 10, 2008 - Fri.May 16, 2008

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Old school content has value…again

BeyondVC

Every day it seems we are reading about the power of social networking to transform the Internet and how we communicate online and also consume and discover new content. While that is true and clearly changing the consumption habits of online users, today seems like a flashback to the old school Internet days where traditional content was king. First IAC announced the acquisition of Lexico Corp which owns dictionary.com, thesaurus.com, and reference.com and then CBS announced the acquisition of

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Geotag it

Jason Ball

One of the areas I’ve been spending a lot of time looking at is All Things Geo. Three headlines caught my eye today: Eye-fi Explore -auto geotags your photos before uploading automagically via wifi. Sony Ericsson- have patented geotagging songs “Proposed technology for a “location dependent music search” would use. GPS or a similar mapping method to determine the phone’s location and. promptly find music associated with the area, whether on the device or. on an Inte

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Your chance to play designer

VC Adventure

Design 48
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Cracking The Code: Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends

Cracking the Code

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Thursday, May 15, 2008. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. I attended yesterday the 10th Annual Top Ten Tech Trends organized by the Churchill Club at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose. This year, the panel included Steve Jurveston from DFJ, Vinod Khosla from Khosla Ventures, Josh Kopelman from First Round Capital, Roger McNamee from Elevation Partners and Joe Sc

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

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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Open vs. closed networks and Facebook chat

BeyondVC

As you know, I have always been a believer in open standards (see my post from January 2006 ). Being a market leader, it is quite easy for Facebook to create their own standard similar to how every other instant messaging network was started. And to that end, Facebook started down that path. But just today, it announced that it was extending its chat and opening up its service by offering XMPP/Jabber support.

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Your chance to play designer | Seth Levine

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Design 48