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7/18/08 Some parts of tech holding up well The Equity Kicker
Amongst all the doom and gloom I’ve felt like slitting my wrists at points over the last couple of weeks so it was good to hear the positive sentiment coming from Google, IBM and Nokia yesterday. Google’s earnings fell short of expectations, but that was due to increased expenses and reduced investment income and is therefore [...]
7/17/08 Chinwag Digital Mission The Equity Kicker
If you haven’t heard about it already you should check out the Chinwag Digital Mission. Building on the success of WebMission08 earlier this year Chinwag in partnership with UKTI will be taking 20 25 UK companies to Web 2.0 Expo (Sept 16-19 in New York) and SXSW in (March 13-17 2009, I think in [...]
7/17/08 Google is closed at the core - making acquisitions tough to integrate The Equity Kicker
As we know Google has a history of acquiring companies which then seem to disappear into the abyss - Dodgeball, Measuremap and Jaiku fall into that category and other services like Blogger, GrandCentral and Feedburner don’t seem to have progressed since they moved to new ownership. There are a couple of exceptions - Youtube being the [...]
7/16/08 Awesome presentation from Tara Hunt on building social capital The Equity Kicker
| View | Upload your own I particularly like the lists on pages 125-6 - “10 commandments of receiving feedback” and pages 175-6 “10 things you can do to create amazing customer experiences”. Thanks to Nnamdi for the pointer - you come up with a lot of great stuff! Update: Just pre-ordered Tara’s new book The Whuffie [...]
7/16/08 Communities are enabled, not created The Equity Kicker
Posted by mobile phone: There is a good post from Mike on Techdirt this morning which discusses the why’s and wherefore’s of newspapers arresting their decline by building communities. http://techdirt.com/articles/20080711/1644431654.shtml I agree with his central assertion that newspapers have traditionally been communities to a limited extent via local advertising and classifieds, and that part of their problem is [...]
7/15/08 Google is expanding it’s social search experiment The Equity Kicker
Details on Justin Hileman’s blog here. I think this is smart. Search results could be improved a lot by feeding in intelligence of what other searchers have found useful.
7/15/08 The power of community in action - eBay The Equity Kicker
I have often remarked on this blog that the fact many web companies are based on community has profound implications for their strategies. Firstly they have to put the long term interests of the community above all else (including in the case of Digg risks to short term survival), and secondly they are vulnerable [...]
7/14/08 Paris' Monte Cristo Games Lands €4.5M For CitiesXL Game alarm:clock
Monte Cristo Games has raised $7M from Arts Alliance, 360 degrees Capital Partners and Innoven Partenaires. Monte Cristo was founded in Paris in 1995 and has focussed on simulation games such as Trader 97, Wall Street Trader, Economic War,...
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7/14/08 The beginning of the end for eBay? The Equity Kicker
The NewYorkTimes today has an article entitled Buy.com Deal with eBay Angers Sellers which covers a couple of interesting things. Firstly: Consumers appear to be tiring of online auctions, and rivals like Amazon.com are attracting  more shoppers with fixed-price listings, while eBay has been struggling for growth. This came as a bit of a surprise to me, but [...]
7/11/08 The year of the mobile??? The Equity Kicker
The furore surrounding the iPhone 3G launch and the iPhone App Store is astounding - check out this screen grab from Techmeme: I’m thinking again about mobile socnets and mobile search at the moment and it looks like Apple has succeeded in giving the sector another big boost.
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