Posts Tagged with ‘silicon-valley’

Steven Hodson has an excellent post today that talks about the financial divide in technology, something that a lot of the Web 2.0 crowd forgets is even there.
Posts pop up from time to time discussion the Web 2.0 bubble, but it's really a word with a double meaning. One is the reference to the false economy of inflated valuations of companies that don't even have a black pen in their accounting departments, but the other meaning that Hodson refers to [...]

I'm back in New York now after my week in San Francisco last week and am still adjusting to the cultural shift. Not only am I back in the suburbs where I have to drive everywhere, but how I use Web 2.0 apps is in stark contrast to how I used them last week, and it isn't just the difference between being at a conference and being back home and my regular work schedule.
The first thing I noticed in San [...]

There's been a story today that virtually every blog has been tiptoeing around but not addressing, except for Drama 2.0, but we know how much he likes to rub our noses in any possible popping of the bubble. The story, as Reuters tells it, is that venture capital into Web 2.0 start-ups is slowing down.
In the Dow Jones VentureSource report cited, they point out that VC for Web 2.0 companies only grew by 25% in 2007, from 143 to 178 [...]

If you somehow managed to keep up with the goings on of the broad international news space throughout 2007, you know there’s one topic in particular that received copious amounts of attention. No, not that Mexican repellant them paranoid repubs and loose-limbed dems signed off on. Nor the tinderscape that was/is southern California. Darfur? Nope. (Too bad, though. It sure would’ve been good to see the American media juggle that ball a tad bit more.) Pakistan? Nah. The year was [...]

The LeWeb 3 conference startup competition we highlighted earlier this week commenced yesterday. And oh how unlucky we’ve been. All of the budding companies we’ve mentioned so far have failed to make it to the awards ceremony.
Nevertheless, winners have emerged from the feisty Parisian melee that has ensued for the past 24 hours or so. Without further adieu, we bring you some brief profiles of the last startups standing.
We’ll begin from the bottom, m’kay? Third place: G.ho.st. Which, I’m sure [...]

We’ve covered the MyStrands social music service/network several times here at Profy. First in December of 2006. Then in late January, when we spoke of several enhancements made. Then in mid-March, when MyStrands tacked on a nifty mobile component to its repertoire. And, lastly, in early September, when we brought you word of the launch of MyStrands TV.
Now it’s safe to say the company (we presume it’s past the “startup” stage) is doing quite well for itself. [...]

In today's news, the chief excecutive of the Federal Communications Commission announced that his group is opposed to a plan by a Silicon Valley entrepreneur to offer free wireless broadband Internet service nationwide, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The broadband plan was devised by a Menlo Park-based company, known as M2Z Networks, which happens to be run by the FCC's former head of the wireless bureau, John Muleta. M2Z wants to take 25 megahertz of currently unused space [...]

People who study the Internet for a living have expended a good deal of effort arguing about its impact on the democratic process. Ever since Web 1.0 came along and changed the world, a popular line of argument has gone roughly like this: ?cyberspace allows people who possess relatively little power in the so-called real world to have their political voices heard in a more egalitarian manner on the Internet.? While the social promises made by a lot of Web 1.0 [...]

Spring fever is out in full force in the Valley, and the contagion is cash. Lots of cash.
The last few weeks were filled with news of buyouts followed by, oh yes, more buyouts. Google nabbed DoubleClick; MySpace purchased Photobucket; Microsoft bought…well, lots of companies, really, not the least of which was aQuantive, which was dubbed an historic $6bn (historic because it’s the most Microsoft has every paid for an established entity) buyout for the software giant. The list goes [...]