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Why we must close the Internet?
2007-08-03 14:34:00 Because Elton John feels so. He says the internet is destroying music! ?The internet has stopped people from going out and being with each other, creating stuff."!Feeling liuke WTF? Elton John baby!Sales of Elton?s last album The Captain & The Kid were disappointing ? it barely shifted 100,000 copies. And in the past Sir Elt has opposed illegal downloading of his music from the net.hmmm Elton asks for something he's not going to get. I guess that?s what Sir Elt would call a net loss . . .Now stop that Meow between the sheets; Lonelygirl 15 is no loner single!MySpace Nabs Lonelygirl15 Finale!!! In a deal that signals the ascendance of the independent video creator, MySpace will host and feature the Lonelygirl15 season finale this Friday. The finale, a culmination of the series to date, with 12 episodes released every hour over starting at 8 a.m. Pacific, is a bit of creative freedom that the Lonelygirl creators are taking to wrap up some storylines and play with the pacing of their ... More About: Internet , Close , The Internet
Web Alert
2007-08-02 13:51:00 If you liked Wallstrip, you might like this new short daily video show called Webb Alert .Check this out, Guess it's gonna be good!
Web Alert
2007-08-02 13:51:00 If you liked Wallstrip, you might like this new short daily video show called Webb Alert .Check this out, Guess it's gonna be good!
Music 2.0
2007-07-13 14:10:00 Lindsay chats with Fred Davis, founding partner at Davis Shapiro Lewit & Hayes, LLP, to discuss Music 2.0.
Music 2.0
2007-07-13 14:10:00 Lindsay chats with Fred Davis, founding partner at Davis Shapiro Lewit & Hayes, LLP, to discuss Music 2.0.
Introducing my new virtual pet 'tutu'.
Back in pr...
2007-07-10 14:35:00 Introducing my new virtual pet 'tutu'.Back in primary school, I had one turtle. His/her name was "tutu"!With all those 6 year old's curiosity, I used to feed him and there was some special reason to invite all my friends home. ( first social networking platform?)Anyways, now, thanks to bunnyhero labs - You can feed him snacks by clicking on the snack bag. Or play ball with him by click on more.adopt your own virtual pet! More About: Virtual , Virt , Intro
Social Networking 2.0
2007-07-09 14:49:00 we?ve been hearing about a new Yahoo social network initiative called Mosh, which is at mosh.yahoo.com but can only be accessed from inside the Yahoo offices. If you happen to be using the guest wifi at Yahoo, you should be able to access the site, although this may be shut down soon. It?s likely this would replace Yahoo?s 360 social network service, which has never really gotten traction. The existence of Yahoo Mosh also most likely puts a bullet in any further speculation that they are in acquisition talks with Bebo, a somewhat unsubstantiated rumor from May. Last year Yahoo made a serious effort at acquiring Facebook but the deal was never closed. Google Social streamSocialstream is the result of a Google-sponsored capstone project in the Master's program at Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute. This project was guided by three goals that built upon each other: Initial Task: Rethink and reinvent online social networking Refined Focus: Discover the... More About: Social Networking , Networking , Working , Workin
Scoopt
2007-07-05 12:40:00 Scoopt, the self-styled ?citizen journalism picture agency?, will now allow Flickr members to tag their images with the keyword ?scoopt?, enabling Scoopt to push tagged images to their media outlet buyers. Scoopt will also encourage buyers to use Flickr as a commercial image resource. Scoopt founder Kyle MacRae said the new feature makes sense as ?there?s no easy way to connect Flick members to buyers? and ?Flickr members are not allowed to advertise their content commercially?. The Scoopt move is unofficial and does not have a formal relationship with Flickr. Sales revenue is split 50/50% between Scoopt and the photographer. The photographer always keeps full copyright. It?s free to join Scoopt. Scoopt has 12,000 members and is based in Scotland. More About: Coop
The Green Wiki
2007-07-05 12:36:00 Here come the niche Wiki launches. Following on from JobberWiki, the career information resource site that anyone can edit, comes Tiptheplanet.com (quoting): Tiptheplanet is a project to create a green wiki website that encourages discussion and the generation of tips that benefit you and the planet - From tips for individuals about staying happy and healthy to tips for multi-national companies to limit their carbon footprints, with accompanying explanations.The site is coming out of the UK and has a nicely random feel to it, as in: ?Switch to green energy; Find out about distributive power?.The site has been launched by Tom Savage, who also run Blueventures.org, a not-for-profit organisation which facilitates projects in global marine conservation and research. More About: Green , The G
'O' Word Sour on Riya ?
2007-07-04 12:53:00 "Some in Silicon Valley begin to sour on India" - Wallstreet Journal homepage loaded with a little bit of surprise.Read the full article (subscription required) or I quoteSilicon Valley has helped power India's outsourcing boom by shifting technology jobs to that country. Three months ago, Munjal Shah reversed a bit of that shift.Munjal Shah, who leads a California start-up called Riya Inc., had opened an office in India's technology capital of Bangalore in 2005, hiring about 20 skilled software developers. The lure was the wage level: just a quarter of what experienced Silicon Valley computer engineers make.Then Indian salaries soared. Last year, Mr. Shah paid his engineers in India about half of Silicon Valley levels. By early this year, it was 75%. "Taking into account the time difference with India," he says, "we weren't saving any money by being there anymore." In April, Mr. Shah shut down the Bangalore office and offered half of its engineers a chance to move to San Mateo,... More About: Word
Social Media kicks Ass!
2007-07-02 13:06:00 Kickass study by ComScore/Piper Jaffray indicating the rapid increase in time spent online interacting with social media experiences. The growth is astounding and suggests that our inflection point may be right around the corner. More About: Social , Media , Kicks , Kick
Chat with Sumir Chadha of Sequoia Capital
2007-06-18 12:45:00 Got an interesting video from YouTube. Interview with Sumir Chadha - Sr. Managing Director, Sequoia Capital India @ TiECon 2007. More About: Chat
Boxing & a lot more can happen over coffee
2007-06-14 08:27:00 8.00 PM IST. Barista Coffee PVR Saket, New Delhi"You are not been to the boxing arena, then why those black circles? ... Not having enough sleep, tired, or just stress? ... You need to be cared, are ya single? "Too many questions? Yup - Defnitly from a female!They say "a lot more can happen over coffee" - True! Since you wanted to sip those awesome beans in warm water with awesome tar filled inside white paper and most of the time you have to share table with others! Blessed!"Yup, I am - Infact 'Romatically Challenged' ! I replied.Trust me folks - It feels great watching some chick laughing for a genune cause, trust me! "But why"? The smile etc,etc ...Blame it on the schools I attened, all boys - I never had an opportunity to groom myself as a 'nice guy'! Hard luck! - Answer."Ohhh ... but ... hey you have a cute face, gals love that and I see - you dress well, I saw you comming in Avis and the driver is opening the door for ya - you must be earning well, you told me you are int... More About: Boxing , Xing
Bubble - Long ? Short?
2007-06-12 13:17:00 Marc Andreessen, the inventor of the first commercially viable Web browser and the co-creator of Netscape, finally has a blog. And he started this week with a splash: in his third post, he offered a harsh (for him) rebuttal of the spreading notion that there is a new Internet bubble forming, that Silicon Valley is overexuberant about ?Web 2.0,? and that soon it will all come crashing down (blog.pmarca.com).?If you?re going to call a bubble on the basis of lots of bad start-ups getting funded and failing,? he writes, ?then you have to conclude that the industry is in a perpetual bubble, and has been for 40 years.?For the most part, he argues, the companies that are getting the most money and attention are those that deserve it. ?People laughed when Fox bought MySpace for $580 million,? he wrote, but now, given its revenue growth, ?MySpace would probably be valued at between $3 billion and $5 billion.?BTW More Bubble Stuff? Thanks to NY Times & Dan Mitchell here's some.markevanst... More About: Long , Short
25th Year & 25th Hour : Happy Birthday!
2007-06-10 13:23:00 Hey! Its my Birthday todayAnd after a long 25 hrs of work, I'm going to the hills to celibrate!Catch ya ! More About: Happy , Happy Birthday , Hour , Year
TV - the Blip way
2007-06-08 12:59:00 Blip.tv, the video sharing site focused on independently produced shows, today announces the closing of its series B financing and its first venture capital investors. The round was led by Ambient Sound Investments (ASI), the venture capital fund established by the four founding engineers of Skype.Other participants in the round include the venture fund Lauder Partners; Jeffrey Sechrest, Managing Director and co-head of the media and entertainment division of Lazard; Andrew Rasiej, founder of the Personal Democracy Forum; Jonathan Kopp, a partner in the PR, marketing and advertising firm SS+K; and Ken Sawyer, founder of Saints Capital.Blip.tv, founded in May 2005, is also marking its second anniversary.With ASI's support, blip.tv, which shares revenue with content creators on a 50/50 basis, will expand its ability to give content creators the opportunity to generate revenue by offering new advertising options, advanced technologies, and an extended distribution network to make blip...
Whats your pitch?
2007-06-07 15:33:00 Vator.TV, the video site started by Bambi Francisco, the former MarketWatch columnist, officially launched! It is designed for people to share ideas about their companies, to investors and others. From the main page, you can select ?My Vator? to create a pitch and manage your profile. Outsiders can use a search bar to find pitches. There is also a text news section and a place where pitching competitions are listed. Interesting features: They've managed to get the who's who of the VC industry. Vinod Khosla, Tim Drapper etc etc....! Khosla's pitch on "Areas of interest" is a message to future biggies - think different, give that social networking concept a break! I like the "Competitions" session: Business Plan competitions!The competition section is a place to find and search for business or product ideas submitted to the latest contests held by Universities, venture capitalists, angel investor groups, conferences, and companies. Competitions typically last for 3 months and are ... More About: Pitch , Hats
The Twitter of Sex
2007-06-06 11:24:00 MeetMoi, a clever ?location based? mobile dating service, has just raised $1.5 million in a first round of financing.You go to MeetMoi?s site, fill in some basic info, upload a profile, and register your phone number. Then, whenever you?re looking for a date, you send a text message containing your zip-code and cross-street to MeetMoi?s system. This lists you as ?available,? and sends text messages with your profile to other ?available? people within your vicinity.If your profile makes any of these people tingle, they can reply to the text and the message will come to you. You then can see their profiles and have the option to respond. At no point does MeetMoi disclose your phone number. The service is free to register and costs 99 cents for 10 anonymous text messages.The funding comes from Acadia Woods Partners. It is available on Cingular, Nextel, Boost, Sprint, T-Mobile, ALLTEL and CellularOne.The WallStreet Jurnal mentioned MeetMoi?s story really well (read here - subscription n... More About: Meet , Twitter
Old Media meets New Media
2007-06-04 15:17:00 Old media visits new media to tell them what they're doing to keep up. Wallstrip's Lindsay chats with Beth Comstock, President of Integrated Media at NBC Universal. More About: New Media
Compensation at VC-Backed Companies
2007-06-04 10:46:00 Fresh off the rousing success of their Term Sheet series, the guys at AskTheVC have begun tackling the issue of compensation at VC-backed companies.This is must-read stuff for any entrepreneur in the process of raising venture capital, or who already has raised venture capital.After all, who else are you going to ask if you?re getting screwed over? Your own VCs?A few highlights from what?s been posted so far:Compensation Before Raising Money: ?Don?t be greedy on cash compensation. There is nothing that turns off a VC more than seeing a pre-revenue, pre-funded company where the employees are making market salaries??Deferred Cash Compensation: ?Be careful about expectation setting here ? while some VCs will respect this arrangement, if this deferred compensation number starts to grow, as a condition of the financing the VCs will often require some or all of the deferred comp to be converted into equity??Equity Compensation Terms: ?The standard vesting terms for a venture-backed compan... More About: Companies , Compa
Science of Bubblishness, Mohalo and Blogs that Talk!
2007-06-01 11:30:00 Mahalo.com, the latest company from entrepreneur Jason Calacanis, launched, with a stripped-down search engine designed to handle only the most popular requests in widely appealing categories.Focused on areas such as travel, music, television, movies, cars, food, health, news and sports ? and filtered with the help of a team of 40 employees in Santa Monica, Calif. ? the limited results are meant to avoid the spam and other junk results that clog up the other search engines. They aim to fulfill the Web?s most repeated requests.By cherry-picking only the most popular 10,000 search terms, it can organize results in the form of a more organized, thoughtful list about your search term?s attributes.The challenge here, though, is that dozens of other search engines have launched to tackle specialized search already, including shopping search engines, job search engines, travel engines and engines like Hakia that organize results in similar ways to Mahalo.Moreover, there are other sites tha... More About: Science , Radio , Blogs , Blog , Talk
Structuring Venture Capital and Other Investments in India
2007-05-28 05:42:00 Many U.S. and other foreign investors are evaluating alternatives for structuring investments into software development, business process outsourcing, drug discovery and other tech and non-tech companies based in India .Here's a whitepaper from Fenwik & West, a Cali based legal firm covering 2007 update to Structuring Venture Capital and Other Investments in India.The primary structures for investing in India are:Direct investment in an India company from outside India(usually through a Mauritius or a Cyprus subsidiary fortax reasons)Investment in a U.S. company with a services fulfillmentsubsidiary in IndiaInvestment in a Cayman Islands or Mauritius companywith a services fulfillment subsidiary in IndiaDirect investment in an India company from outsideIndia through a venture capital fund registered with theSecurities and Exchange Board of India.The primary business considerations in determining how tostructure such an investment are:Relative valuations in the U.S. and India capital... More About: Venture Capital , Legal
Feed? 100 million for ya!
2007-05-25 12:48:00 On the surface, this looks like a straightforward story. Google is tightening its grip on text advertising with the acquisition of Feed burner. The rumored purchase price for the Chicago-based startup is of the order of $100m!Text ads in feeds receive so little attention from readers that Google, which pursued its own trial, abandoned the experiment. Feed readers, the applications and sites on which geeky internet users scan news items, often do not support the graphical ads which brands prefer, closing off that avenue for a broker such as Feedburner.So, why would Google pay such a high multiple, about 10 times revenues, for the startup? Probably, for the same reason it has developed Google Analytics: it is another way for Google to tie in independent online publishers. Feedburner provides an array of services to sites, such as email newsletter publishing, and the integration of external news and photos. It is more valuable as a publishing service than an ad broker.What's a Feed btw... More About: Burner , Million
The Art of the Start
2007-05-24 10:16:00 Guy Kawasaki of Garage Ventures at TiECon last year. Download the presentation here (pdf)Truly "The A rt of the Start " More About: Guy Kawasaki , The Art , The Star
Project Victoria's Secret
2007-05-15 12:16:00 Folks - Its been long! Sorry ( as if my blog is on Technorati Top 10 )Busy with something - something new - or furnished version of the old; if any. We are calling it 'Project Victor ia's Secret ' ! Nice name eh?Yup! We are really excited!I'll keep you all in loop - meantime lets listen to the two greatest Geeks of this information age! Steve and Bill!Moral of the Story : PCs are for fart hoffers and Macs get you laid. More About: Tori
Heidi Get Your Gun
2007-05-02 15:49:00 A civilian woman carries a rifle on a motorcycle in Switzerland. Photo courtesy Time. Story here More About: Heidi
DOW DOW DOW .... Its 13K !
2007-05-01 14:18:00 What about 1987? What about black Monday? Eh?Forgive the Unforgiven babe - Dow ruling : Its 13K now! Brokers - Enjoy!Here's some strip from Wallstrip !And just chill out and enjoy the Dow 12K party
Is the world turning from the death penalty?
2007-05-01 14:14:00 China executes more people than all other countries combined: unofficially, as many as 8,000, according to Amnesty International, a human-rights group.While the annual estimated number of executions fluctuates (1,591 in 2006?some 40% higher than in 2003), Amnesty notes that there is a global shift away from the death penalty. The total number of countries carrying out executions has fallen from 40 to 25 in a decade, and 129 countries are abolitionist in practice. America is one of only five democracies still to use the death penalty.via: Economist More About: China , World , Death , Death penalty , The World
Rich Kids yea!
More articles from this author:2007-04-30 14:25:00 Tough Luck - I'm not a Mogul's kid (neither am a cult of mac)!Anyways - First pictures of Apple iPhone on street (beach?)! More About: Kids , Rich , Rich Kids 1, 2, 3 |
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