John Furrier
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MySpace Webmail Could Work
MySpace webmail looks to be live according to this post. Even though the anticipated screaming of the tech savvy crowd will be FAIL, I think we should take a slightly deeper look. While everyone is all about Facebook these days, the facts still show that MySpace has a huge audience. There are many like me ...
Future of Search – It Isn’t Search – This Funny Video From SearchMe Makes The Point
I was sent this video last night. It’s a video that Searchme.com, a new visual search engine, put together to make a point about how old and outdated search results really are. This brings up an interesting point about users and the current navigation model – or link based search and navigation – it needs ...
How To Fix Venture Capital – What’s the Answer – Simply More Venturing Needed
Is this financial market mess going to put the nail in the venture community? Thomas Friedman’s recent editorial confused many including prominent investor Fred Wilson and a young writer named Sarah Lacy. Friedman hits on an interesting angle – we need to look at what is powering innovation. Fred Wilson thinks everything is fine and ...
Are Widgets or Raw Files Destined For Our Livingrooms?
Stacey Higginbotham at GigaOm today reports that Broadcom will be ensuring content from the Chumby would run on their chips, which she sees as a move to signal their approval of the pseudo-TV/widget device as a concept. If you had asked me five years ago if this was where it was all headed, I would ...
Confirmed Twitter Turned Down 1/2 Billion Dollars From Facebook
Will somone pinch me. It’s hard to fathom that Twitter turned down 1/2 billion from Facebook. Duncan Riley confirms via Twitter no less that Facebook did indeed turn down 1/2 billion. Facebook will no doubt go on to a historic rise as a huge win. Just can’t figure out what Twitter is thinking. They should ...
Answer To This Looming Depression – Us The Entrepreneurs – Read If You Want a Recovery
Ok now I feel a bit vindicated for all the “yelling” that I’ve been doing lately about the changes needed in entrepreneurship even in the face of Fred Wilson who thinks we’re fine the way it is now. We’re not. The market needs a reboot. Here I would like to share with you an opinion ...
Social Media Fallacies – What To Know If You’re Thinking of Social Media
Here is a great post by Jason Baer on the fallacies of social media. Social media is the email marketing of our web 2.0 everyone will do it but how is the question. I’ve been doing it for years and I agree with this post. I’ve added some of my comments in { } below. ...
Mr. Youth’s 5 Rules for the Consumer 2.0
One of my good friends just forwarded me over an interesting whitepaper penned by the New Media branding and marketing group Mr. Youth. It’s an interesting paper that outlines the guiding principals, as they see it, of marketing within the new ecology of a social media dominant world. It’s not hard to find evidence to ...
Venture Investing: The Future is UnWritten – Watch This Video
Here is a quote from Fred Wilson in a post today… “The venture capital business is an asset class where the top 10-20 percent of the firms make 80%+ of the returns. That’s how its always been and that’s how it will likely always be.”.. My Angle: The best VCs are the ones that see ...
New Venture Creation – A New Generation of Entrepreneurs and A New Generation of Investors
Another reason for this blog is to accelerate the new venture creation process here in Silicon Valley and around the world. This post from Thomas Friedman speaks to why siliconANGLE exists. We need to not work with the losers but the innovators – startups. Thomas writes “(regarding the auto bailout)…Bailing out the losers is not ...
