Filed in archive Technology
by tj on November 27, 2005
Interesting comments from Oskar Syahbana why Google is not a Web 2.0 company: "Let's focus back to Google. Do they have any service that was built co-developed by the users? No they...
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Filed in archive by tj on November 27, 2005
I got the above spam message today. The site links in the email are mysterious but the real URL http://www.netspantv.com/ works as well. Strangely there are no real reviews or user comments about the...
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Filed in archive Technology
by tj on November 27, 2005
Business 2.0 runs an article (no registration required) about the domain grabbers: "And you thought the domain grabbers vanished with the dotcom bust. The boom in Internet advertising and the...
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Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on November 27, 2005
Wired.com analyzes XXX Netflix competitor WantedList: 'Ting has never been inside a Netflix distribution center. He has never directly observed the clockwork precision of its fulfillment system....
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Filed in archive by tj on November 27, 2005
Germany and Austria are all the rage about this satirical website: "If you thought XBOX 360 was the hottest item of this year, think again. For only EUR 0.99 we offer you the perfect rip-off...
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by tj on November 22, 2005
Brightcove secures a great round: "Brightcove, an Internet TV platform provider, said Tuesday it has attracted a quartet of heavy-hitting investors in Time Warner, IAC/InterActive, Hearst, and...
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Filed in archive Global Economy
by tj on November 22, 2005
TCV has raised a monster fund: "Technology CrossOver Ventures said it closed the largest technology-focused fund of the year with $1.4 billion in investments. It's the firm's sixth fund...
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by tj on November 21, 2005
21Publish has launched a new community that serves to travellers from German low cost airline HLX. Each ticket from HLX (starting from EUR 19.99) gives you the opportunity to blog and discuss your...
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Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on November 20, 2005
What is the best way to become a millionare? Start an airline as a billionaire. This old saying seems a little outdated if you believe the circumstantial evidence that The Economist presents:...
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Filed in archive by tj on November 20, 2005
The Economist honors the last ten sucecssful years of India's Sunil Bharti Mittal: "The investor was Vodafone, a British mobile-telephony giant. It paid about $1.5 billion for 10% of Bharti...
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Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on November 20, 2005
Another month - another free book. This time we have one copy of Guy Kawasaki's "The art of the start" for you. We have reviewed the book here. The book is a fantastic guideline how to...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on November 18, 2005
perfect.com has raised another round worth $30 million. "Perfect(R) Commerce, Inc., the largest provider of On-Demand Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) solutions and The Open Supplier...
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by tj on November 18, 2005
I just played around with Yokel a local shopping search engine. Simple and nice. Yokel just finished its first (?) round from Startup Florida, Startup Massachusetts, Walnut Ventures and Boston...
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Filed in archive Global Economy
by tj on November 18, 2005
McKinsey has published a new report saying that Europe is in Acute danger to loose its edge as business location for high tech companies. The report finds only 17% of the world's biggest high tech...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on November 18, 2005
Friendster is apparently busy selling the company to a new owner as CNET reports: "The San Francisco-based company has hired Montgomery & Co., a boutique investment banking firm in Santa...
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by tj on November 16, 2005
Anita at SmallBusinessTrends links to an interesting piece from Paul Graham: "Largely because of Sarbanes-Oxley, few startups go public now. For all practical purposes, succeeding now equals...
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by tj on November 12, 2005
As you may have noticed we are back with a fusion of our prior homepage design and new elements. The story behind is much more simple as you might want to believe. Some weeks ago we were on the......
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by tj on November 09, 2005
It seems the hunger for game developers out there is still big - WaltDisney announced their acquisition of Munich, Germany based Living Mobile. "Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Munich,...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on November 08, 2005
OpenBC the Hamburg, Germany based social networking company has raised EUR 5.7 million from Wellington Partners and existing investors. Here is the english press release (PDF): "CEO Lars...
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by tj on November 08, 2005
21Publish has a new whitepaper (PDF) on Group Blogging. It covers: "This whitepaper helps to introduce group blogging to organizations. As part of this introduction, this paper will: - highlight...
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Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on November 07, 2005
Reelblogs sent me a note that they are about to launch their network of Video blogs. In fact a great idea but the sites need a little more content if you ask me...But cool domain name :) Check out......
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Filed in archive Events
by tj on November 07, 2005
We enjoyed ad:tech today and had a couple of great sessions. Nearly 50 exhibitors (if I count right) and that many people as it seems the big Online Advertising Bubble is back from 2000 crowded the...
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Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on November 07, 2005
Wow Duncan, Jeremy and Darren consolidate the market faster than I can update my bookmarks - this weeks acquisitions includes venerable About Weblogs: "Duncan, Jeremy and I have been in...
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