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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

July: Netizen Blog Carnival Month

Internet For The Billions (July 1)
Wimax (July 4)
Cheap Laptops (July 7)
Microfinance (July 10)
Venture Capital (July 13)
Google (July 16)
Google Wave (July 19)
Android (July 22)
Entrepreneurship (July 25)
Global Poverty (July 28)

So I Have Decided To Launch A Blog Carnival

Monday, June 29, 2009

Bye Bye Geocities

Fred Wilson
This Reminds Me Of The Web 3.0 Definition Fight
I Did My Part
Google Wave API Google Group: Got To Undo The Ban On Me
Google Wave Protest
Google Wave API Google Group: Stalinist Mindset
My Twitter Suspension Lifted
Can Tweet Google, Can't Tweet Twitter
Netizen Is No Spam Blog
Google: Tweet Me Baby One More Time
I Talked To Google Through Twitter And It Worked Like Magic
NY Tech MeetUp Mailing List Web 5.0 Controversy
Web 5.0 Is Da Bomb
Competing For the Web 3.0 Definition
Conceptually Diligent: Web 5.0 Is Repackaging Hello
Defining Web 4.0

In The News

No rush to 3GS for gamers CNet
Bloomberg: Information for the people will improve government
Red Hat goes to the movies
Walkman vs. iPod
OLPC operating system free on a stick
Google move paves way for Firefox on Android
Ch-ch-ch-changes: A visual history of Firefox
Report: Microsoft to cut Razorfish loose
Why Oracle will continue to win
Get social now!
An FM transmitter for your iPod that actually works
What the iPhone teaches us about cloud adoption
Reading machine to snoop on Web
Delta 4 rocket boosts weather satellite into orbit
Report: Sony considers adding phone to PSP
Is Apple's Mac Mini a MacBook inside?
DOJ extends investigation into Oracle-Sun deal
YouTube hoops star accepts Shaq's Twitter challenge
Michael Jackson's death roils Wikipedia
What PC makers are paying for Windows 7
Google or Bing? Where's the pic of Sanford's lover?
E-mails indicate EPA suppressed report skeptical of global warming

U.S. Companies Seek New Tax Havens BusinessWeek
U.S. Companies See Their Offshore Mistake
Academic's Labor Helps Fight H-1B Visas
Archive: Are More Foreign Nurses Needed?
Summer Stock Doldrums May Be Here to Stay

Stocks Mixed in Early Trading
Marcial: Achillion, a Promising Biotech
Microsoft's Hohm: First in the Azure Cloud
Venture Capital Doesn't Need Government Help
Are Smarter Gadgets Good for the Planet?
IT Firms Increase Focus on India's Media
A Silver Lining for India's Housing Market
DLF, Unitech to Revive Mumbai Deals
A return to the Family Doctor
EU Moots Social Network Privacy Rules
U.K. Officials at Odds over Debt
Daimler Fights for Its Future
Malaysia's Air Asia Sponsors NFL's Oakland Raiders

Michael Jackson: Death of a Brilliant, Troubling Icon Time
Cheating 2.0: New Mobile Apps Make Adultery Easier
Top 10 Crooked CEOs

The Obamas Find a Church Home — Away from Home
Church-Shopping: Why Do Americans Change Faiths?
What Michael Jackson Did on His Last Day

Louisville's Bring Your Firearms to Church Day
California's Fiscal Crisis: The Legacy of Proposition 13

Which State Security Branch Rules Tehran's Streets?
Can Charter-School Execs Help Failing Public Schools?
What the Energy Bill Really Means for CO2 Emissions
The Key to Fixing Health Care and Energy: Use Less
Global-Warming's Rough Ride Through Congress
No OK Yet on Kerry-Produced Film
Did Drugs Kill Michael Jackson?
Michael Jackson: The Sad End of an American Icon
The Young Michael Jackson at Home
The World Mourns Michael Jackson
Go West, Young Chef
SC Governor Considered Resigning, Won't
The Anti–Red Bull: A Drink to Calm You Down
Michael Jackson the boy: A rare and certain star
Obama Goes Non-Denominational

Social Capital And The Venture Capital Game

This article in TechCrunch reinforces with sound data what you could have guessed on your own or rather, what is wisdom in the tech circles, that social capital matters. What you know is important, sure. We would like to believe there is a meritocracy. But who you know is als

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o important, very important. It is not true that social capital is less important in a meritocracy. Not everyone has to have 10,000 friends, or even a thousand. How many people you know and stay in touch with depends on your personality type, career domain, success, how busy you keep, and a few other things. Can you smile? Can you say hello?

Maybe you know a lot, but would it not be swell if you could team up with people who also know a lot? Teaming up with people with similar goals and interests can take you a long way. Teaming up with people who compliment your knowledge and skill set is the only way to go. And then there's social

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capital for social reasons. Who do you want to hang out with? Partying is also important.

And then there is the social capital social media cocktail. You can manage your bank account online. You can also grow, nurture and manage your social capital online. We live in such a day and age.

The Top 100 Networked Venture Capitalists TechCrunch Do venture investors
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with the biggest and best networks end up producing the best returns? ....... “better-networked VC firms experience significantly better fund performance,” as measured by how many of the companies in their portfolios exited via an IPO or acquisition. ...... all the other venture firms who co-invested with it in funding rounds ...... The more co-investors a venture firm has, the better its network. The better its network, the better its overall returns. ....... better access to deal flow, talent, advisers, potential customers, and potential exits. ..... “to get a high score, you need to co-invest often with others that also co-invest often.”
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1. Draper Fisher Jurvetson
2. Sequoia Capital
3. Accel Partners
4. Intel Capital
5. First Round Capital
6. Dag Ventures
7. New Enterprise Associates
8. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
9. Benchmark Capital
10. Ron Conway

Whom You Know Matters: Venture Capital Networks and Investment Performance

Whom You Know Matters: Venture Capital Networks and Investment Performance -

Fred Wilson
Facebook And Mashable: Social Media And Social Media Blog
Is Google Wave Social Enough To Challenge Facebook, Twitter?
Is Reading Socializing?
Define Social Media

From The Netizen BlogRoll

One afternoon in NYC Just as the brand started in the UK as the David to many Goliaths in aviation, mobile telephony, and financial services, the Virgin companies in the US are Davids offering a fresh value-for-money alternative to the bigger, bloated, legacy institutions... On Fallon.
A Pause From The Regular Programming For A Commercial
Securing An Independent: Identify Candidates
Sarychev Peak Volcano in Stereo
Bring the world to your event
First Round Capital Office Hours Comes to...Our Office

The King of Twitter He’s still dead. All that follows is discussion and wouldn’t we re

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ally rather discuss it with our friends than Al Sharpton? ...... If the Iraq War was the birth of CNN could Iran and Jackson mark the start of their decline in influence? ........ Neda. Piece by piece, the story came together before our eyes, in public. The journalists added considerable value. But this wasn’t product journalism: polishing a story once a day from inside the black box. This was process journalism and that ensured it was also collaborative journalism – social journalism ..... n Twitter, the trends were all but filled with Jackson – except for the Iran election, which was still there, in the middle. That renews my fai

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th in us.
Is Blogging Evolving Into Life Streams? Scoble spends more time promoting Friendfeed than his own blog ...... many of the top 100 blogs all look like mainstream media, with a team of writers, photographers, and editors. ..... the iPhone has resulted in 400% increase in uploads to YouTube ..... he’s slowed down on blogging and increased his activity in Twitter and Friendfeed ..... he’s losing his thought leadership, his voice is lost in the noise

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Memory Upgrade

MAC Memory : Upgrade like a pro.
MAC Memory : For Apple, Dell, HP, IBM, Sony and Toshiba.
MAC Memory : Mac or PC, server or laptop. 8GB, 4GB or 2GB.

There Aren't Enough Photos And Videos Online

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Is there enough text online? Not really. Unless all books ever printed are taken online and are available full text, there will not be. Run ads alongside, I say. Make a little bit of money from a lot of people.

Is there enough text online? There is a lot.

But there is a major dearth of images and videos. Billions of images are not enough. Millions of hours of video are not enough. That is not how that can be measured. It has to start with you, and every you there is. Any image anywhere, and I don't mean images captured by cameras, I mean anything any human eye can see from any angle, is all that online? We are not even at 1% right now. And we already do image search so badly. Images are not text. But we do textual image search. Images have to be searched based on imagerial attributes.

Ditto with video. There we are doing much worse than images.

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We are going to have to twitterize content creation when it comes to images and videos. Every person with a Twitter account is a potential reporter. They can report, if not on major world events then on themselves.

I hear the with the new iPhone people can snap video clips and edit them and upload them directly from their smartphones. We have needed to skip the idea of downloading the pictures and videos to the desktop and then uploading them to websites. That middleman has been a problem.

All Books Need To Go Digital

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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

July: Netizen Blog Carnival Month

Monday, June 29, 2009

Bye Bye Geocities

Social Capital And The Venture Capital Game

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Memory Upgrade

There Aren't Enough Photos And Videos Online