Archives for March 2007
It’s taken a few years, but at last mobile technology has reached the point where genuinely compelling smartphones can be made with form factors that will appeal to the mass market. The point is that, to appeal to the mass market, mobile phones have to be easily pocketable; and that imposes some size constraints. […]
Photo sharing, and photo widget, companies are a fascinating category of business… but how do you go about valuing them? These businesses have potentially huge user bases, but the services they offer are mostly free. So revenues that come directly from users are pretty low. Instead the lion’s share of revenues from […]
Saul Klein from Index Ventures has a post about Imagini being on the Alexa movers and shakers list. Saul says Imagini’s social networking is “clearly addictive”. But is it really? I’m not so sure.
People might be finding it addictive. However, I think there’s an alternative explanation that fits the current […]
Well, as far as it’s possible to tell, Zune sales have settled down to a level of less than 50,000 units per month.  I think “failure” is the only word to describe this level of performance.  Even by Microsoft’s own rather narrow definition of success - selling a million units by June 2007 - Zune […]
If you haven’t heard about Twitter yet, you’re about to. It’s one of the fastest growing phenomenons on the Internet. What is Twitter? It’s a system that lets you send an SMS text message out onto the Network, to be picked up by anyone that wants to listen. Essentially, […]
In case you missed the news, Microsoft has agreed to acquire Tellme for a rumoured c. $900M. Why did Microsoft pay almost a billion dollars for the company?
Well, there are a number of components that go into the valuation. However, the thing that’s really exciting about Tellme is what they’re doing in […]
It was a few weeks ago that it hit me: we really need much bigger monitors for our computers. How much bigger? Well, I’m talking LCD displays that are, say, 70 inches in size. The problem is - current displays don’t give us enough screen real estate to do perform tasks […]
Adobe’s new cross-platform “rich desktop application” platform has just reached the stage of “public alpha” release. That means, people will be free to download it, but it’s not going to be either bug-free or feature-complete. Now, we all know that Flash is a fantastically successful browser-based technology for building Rich Internet Applications, especially […]
Let’s be honest - everyone who’s interested in looking at how web-based businesses are doing looks at Alexa. We all know it’s imperfect. We all know it can be gamed. But it’s the best tool we have; and people take notice of it. Now, it would be interesting if Stumbleupon served up some similar stats […]
Yesterday, I was at a conference, and got talking to someone who works at a medium sized company that is currently based around Macs on the corporate desktop. They’re a large enough company that they do a lot of custom software development for the Mac for internal use in the company; and large […]