Wikileaks' leak of its approximately 400,000 Iraq military field reports to major media outlets has turned into a torrent today. Like the whistle-blower outfit's release of its 91,000 Afghanistan war documents, it gave the MSM a chance to look, and interpret, before releasing any information to the public. Reports on,...
When Facebook Places launched in August, the media wasted little time in calling game, set and match on Foursquare and its location-based social network (LBSN) brethren. With over 500 million users, the theory went, Facebook would become the most popular check-in service due to its sheer size alone.While Facebook hasn't...
Coming up this week: CeBIT Bili?im Eurasia; Fukuoka Ruby Nights - Silicon Valley; Virtual Goods Summit; The International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality; APPNATION; 2nd Annual Auto-ID & Sensing Seminar & Expo; SFNewTech Japan Night; The International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality; Strange Loop; Silicon Valley VC &...
At today's roundtable we had some interesting companies and a lot of fundraising discussions, and I will review them shortly. Before I do, however, I want to talk about a thumb rule that I'd like to propose to entrepreneurs about raising money. Bottom line, early stage equity is very, very...
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I have been meaning to get to discussing blue-sky opportunities at the roundtables, and this week we did some of that. During this week's roundtable we discussed an area that deserves a serious look from entrepreneurs: Rural BPO. Whether it is in the emerging markets or in the U.S., it...
Despite the continued growth and popularity of Facebook, a number of alternate social networking sites are cropping up in order to the needs of groups in ways that Facebook can't. One such group is scientists and scholars, who want to have a platform for communication and collaboration, but one that...
The Palo Alto Research Center is releasing new semantic technology, based on Xerox PARC IP, in the form of an Outlook plugin called Meshin. At first glance, Meshin looks like the ugly stepsister to a similar Outlook tool called Xobni, as it also loads into an email sidebar window, displaying...
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If you're capable of seeing past the old stones of Paris and the picturesque rural villages, you'll realize that France is every bit as technologically advanced as any other Western country - more so in some areas. Not only does the country have a higher percentage of homes with high-speed...
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This week's roundtable was organized in collaboration with my partner MAD Incubator, a technology incubator in Malaysia that is dedicated to giving technopreneurs a chance to succeed and make a difference.First up was Max Teoh presenting GetToDo, a real-time, vicinity-based sales and promotions solution for the Malaysian lifestyle market. It...
Unless it's an elaborate and pointless prank - and come on, how likely is that? - 4chan is hiring. To be more specific, a 4chan spin-off, called Canvas, is hiring for several New York-based technical positions. Canvas has yet to be publicly defined, but the jobs page on the the...
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This week's roundtable had two entrepreneurs from India. Now for those of you who are unfamiliar with the Indian market, it is a market that has not seen as much Internet adoption as elsewhere. Whereas China's Internet penetration will reach 518 million this year, India's is only about 80 million,...
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