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 [...]
