David Shore’s Web 2.0 Weekly tracks capital in the Web 2.0 market. Once a week he presents all the financial information that’s publicly available on Web 2.0 markets, including his basket of 92 publicly traded Web 2.0 companies. He tracks financings, stock prices, news and more for the Web 2.0 world.
This week’s edition starts off with an assessment of financings over the last quarter (down, very down), but later on shows that Web 2.0 companies are beating the Nasdaq over the last few weeks.
Worth a read, and even if you’re not a subscriber, you can grab it each week off Scribd.
In Virtually Flu-Free Meetings Forbes writers Andy Greenberg and Quentin Hardy look at the rise of telepresence systems. Their angle? Avoid swine flu by avoiding travel.
With the specter of swine flu rising, companies have yet another reason to consider holding their meetings virtually rather than sending executives on planes. That’s good news for the likes of giants like Cisco and Hewlett-Packard as well as for smaller companies that offer specialized telepresence networking gear.
The article has some beautiful pictures of big screen video conferencing systems from Cisco, and talks about installations costing $300,000 along with an extra $10,000 per month in bandwidth costs.
There are low cost alternatives to travel, however. Forbes mentions solutions like Skype and Sightspeed, or … perhaps even a conference call? Obvious, I know, but they overlooked that one.
Just when you think a market must be dead, you learn something new. For example, did you know that FAX is a $500 million annual market, and that the growth segment in that market is PC based transmission – growing at 16% annually. I certainly didn’t. One of the stalwarts of the PC based faxing [...]
For a couple of weeks I’ve been playing with a new version of one of my favorite mobile apps – Truphone. Publicly available today, Truphone 3.0 for iPhone sports a new UI plus integration with Skype. That’s right, you can make and receive Skype calls via Truphone. Now, with Truphone, you can: Make free WiFi [...]
Ad blindness is the conscious or subconscious ignorance of advertisements placed into web pages. As users become blind to ads, the ads themselves simply become less effective. Recently, I’ve been trying to figure out how to mitigate ad blindness for our Calliflower affiliate ads. For a while, the ads ran unlimited here, which meant that [...]
Steve Jobs and Steve Ballmer have a problem. It’s called the netbook. These under-powered computers are threatening the most lucrative segment of the PC market today, the laptop. And, in classic “Innovator’s Dilemma” fashion, the Steves are failing to take the steps required to address the problem. Apple’s reaction has simply been to deny the [...]
There’s no denying that some meetings have to be had face to face. Increasingly, however, people are becoming more willing to have those meetings virtually – via conference call, video conference or some other vehicle. Because it’s Earth Day, I thought I’d work up a small calculation for what one of those face to face [...]
Over at Skype Journal Phil Wolff has been writing about the way in which Skype is “democratizing” media production. He grabbed a couple of the clips of Oprah’s Twitter debut, including a conversation via Skype Video with Ashton Kutcher. His comment is that although Oprah could have flown a crew to interview Ashton’s half of [...]
We deployed an experimental change last week to how Calliflower handles URLs in invitations. It now shortens those URLs with bit.ly. Instead of a gigantic URL to invite callers to your call, they’ll now get a short URL. http://apps.calliflower.com/conf/show/49797 vs. http://bit.ly/Dwmvk Conventional wisdom says that this is the wrong thing to do. After all, [...]
Carleton University Professor Tony Bailetti is out making lemons into lemonade. In response to the current economic environment, he has dusted off a program he ran in 2002 called “Lead to Win”. The goal is to take a crop of bright, talented folks with leadership potential and mold them into technology entrepreneurs. Last time around, [...]
