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Marc-Alexandre Gagnon

Bubble Motion: Twitter By Voice - Forbes [11Oct11] - 0 views

  • Singapore-based Bubble Motion is offering a voice-based version of Twitter.
  • Sequoia Capital, the bluest of blue chip Silicon Valley venture capital firms, brought Clayton in to salvage Bubble Motion in early 2008 after it had burned through $30 million in capital.
  • Clayton rather quickly saw that instead of continuing with its original offering — a peer-to-peer voicemail service, it could grow fast by providing a voice version of Twitter.
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  • Twitter had three million users but a billion messages delivered. Bubble Motion’s peer-to-peer voice mail service had 25 million users but not anywhere near as many messages delivered as Twitter did.
  • Since he took charge in February 2008, Bubble Motion has received two rounds of fresh capital — $6 million and then $10 million more recently. Investors include Sequoia and SingTel Innov8 — the venture arm of Singapore’s carrier.
  • It will probably take a few years before Clayton has established Bubble Motion as a financial success.
D'coda Dcoda

Massive LinkedIn IPO Raises Dotcom Bubble Concerns [20May11] - 0 views

  • The Installer writes with news of yesterday's stock offering from LinkedIn, which shocked investors by closing at more than double the initial price. "Buyers crowded the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, and financial news networks flashed LinkedIn's stock price urgently all day. By the closing bell, the company had a market value of $9 billion, the highest for any Internet company since Google had its initial public offering seven years ago. Millionaires and even one billionaire were made, at least on paper. The stock, issued at $45, went as high as $122.70 just before noon and closed at $94.25 on a trading volume of 30 million shares." That price values the company at over 30 times its 2010 revenue, leading to speculation that this is either evidence of the second dotcom bubble (a possibility we discussed in February) or a "watershed moment for social media." Many experts are questioning the value of LinkedIn, while others are claiming intentional market manipulation.
Jan Wyllie

Another tech bubble is set to deflate - FT.com - 2 views

  • But bubbles can pop with a bang or deflate with a long, slow hiss. There is a growing feeling that an eight-year boom is over. It is one thing when non-tech Neanderthals guffaw at the very idea of Twitter, but quite another when those blessed by the Valley’s recent success worry that the gig is up.
  • To create a successful tech company, he wrote, “you have to find an idea that 1) has escaped the attention of the major internet companies, which are better run than ever before; 2) is capable of being launched and proven out for ~$5m, the typical seed plus series A investment; and 3) is protectable from the onslaught of those big companies once they figure out what you’re on to. How many ideas like that are left?”
  • To build a significant tech company in a new space, you cannot be trivial. Yet this is exactly how many start-ups and some big tech companies now feel. Ten of the top 15 paid apps on iTunes this week are games. For all of Apple’s commercials showing people doing clever, scientific-looking things with their devices, most people are using them to play Angry Birds rather than solve the world’s problems.
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    Yay for Angry Birds...
Dan R.D.

Who Will Control the Internet of Things? (AAPL, GOOG, IBM, IDCC, MMI) - 0 views

  • Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL  ) filed a patent at the tail end of 2009 dubbed "Local Device Awareness," which describes automated connections between a number of close-range devices. Some potential applications could be device position targeting (think locating your keys) or proximity-based gaming.
  • If Apple's patent seems overly broad, patent hoarder InterDigital (Nasdaq: IDCC  ) has gone for specificity. It holds some 33 known patents covering machine-to-machine communication.
  • Motorola and Google seem to be behind in patents, with only one highly technical machine-to-machine patent showing up for Motorola Mobility, and none for Google. But as you'll soon see, the two companies might be hoping for a more open environment.
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  • IBM sees the Internet of things as a source of growth, and it recognizes that the best way to capitalize is to make it easy to adopt. Keeping the underlying framework open-source will undoubtedly improve competition and encourage startups, much as the growth of the public Internet led to an explosion of newly public companies. Let's hope that the growth of this new industry isn't hampered by patents, but we should also be wary of any new bubbles that might inflate.
Paul Simbeck-Hampson

The Filter Bubble - 0 views

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    Personalisation is definitely contenscious!
Dan R.D.

Marc Andreessen on Why Software Is Eating the World - WSJ.com [20Aug11] - 0 views

  • This week, Hewlett-Packard (where I am on the board) announced that it is exploring jettisoning its struggling PC business in favor of investing more heavily in software, where it sees better potential for growth. Meanwhile, Google plans to buy up the cellphone handset maker Motorola Mobility. Both moves surprised the tech world. But both moves are also in line with a trend I've observed, one that makes me optimistic about the future growth of the American and world economies, despite the recent turmoil in the stock market.
  • In short, software is eating the world.
  • More than 10 years after the peak of the 1990s dot-com bubble, a dozen or so new Internet companies like Facebook and Twitter are sparking controversy in Silicon Valley, due to their rapidly growing private market valuations, and even the occasional successful IPO. With scars from the heyday of Webvan and Pets.com still fresh in the investor psyche, people are asking, "Isn't this just a dangerous new bubble?"
D'coda Dcoda

Time + travel + map [06Jun11] - 0 views

  • mapnificient travel-time map “specific to each city, ‘mapnificent’ sources the timetables of the major public transportation services to roughly calculate the areas accessible within a given time span, highlighting this area in a lit ‘bubble’. one’s location can be set via address or dropping a pointer on the map, and settings for the search include whether the user has access to a bicycle and (in beta) the day and time, as well as the maximum distance the user is willing to walk to a source of public transit. a google maps search can be conducted to find nearby amenities, with results overlain onto the visualization.”
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    specific to each city, helps w timing of public transportation
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