Ever since heady days of broadcast.com back in the era of Web 1.0 there has always been promise in the field of Web video, and as the encoding technologies have grown more sophisticated and broadband penetration breaks new records every day, online video has exploded, but aside from a very few examples like Hulu no one seems to have […]
Mashup culture and social media
Just left the final session of Remix/Mashup 2009: The Future of Creative Production and Ownership at Ohio State’s Moritz College of Law, which explored the implications of mashup and remix in the world of Web 2.0. They reached out to me last fall and I couldn’t resist flying out — this was the first conference […]
Intel’s chairman on corporate social responsibility
The highlight of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas for me was the sitdown that the Intel Insiders had with Intel chairman and former CEO Craig Barrett. (Disclosure: I’m a member of the Intel Insiders.) At CES the next day, Barrett gave a keynote in which he announced a wide-ranging new initiative by […]
Bridging gap between casual & serious gaming
The gamer’s dilemma has always been between the quality of dedicated gaming vs. the convenience of casual flash based games. You can play Gears of War if you have the game ($80) the console ($300) and a TV ($500 for a good one) or you can play limitless flash games on limitless sites — for […]
Parisian investors share valuable tips with startups
investors, seedcamp, seedcamp tel aviv, seedcamp paris, Index Ventures, Saul Klein, Anne Gousset, Paris Developpement, Chipper Boulas, Boulas Ventures, Luis Courtot, Courtot Ventures, Xavier Lazarus, Elaia Partners, Philippe Colombel, Partech VC, economic crisis, startups, tips, panel discussion