How Many Social Networks Is Too Many?
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Social networks and my big a-ha
Social networks and my big a-ha
06/14/2004 07:45 PMWisconsin Technology Network,WI-54 minutes agoReaders of DEMOletter
know that I've written regularly about so- called social networks,
services such as LinkedIn, Spoke, and Google's Orkut. ...
Social Networks Visualiser 0.3
Social Networks Visualiser 0.3
04/29/2004 08:22 PMA social networks visualizer.
Alumni social networks
Alumni social networks
06/01/2004 11:40 PMTh
efacebook, Bruinwalk, and Online Networking.
Thefacebook.com recently
included UCLA in its collection of universities—generating 3,500
new UCLA users in just one month. It appears that UCLA’s bruinwalk.com will also be adding
social networking functionality to its menu of services, according to
Phillip Lin for the Daily Bruin.
Bruinwalk.com plans to offer services both
‘comparable’ and additive to Thefacebook.com.
What
social networking services are currently lacking on Thefacebook.com?
Do any readers utilize this university service?
[The Social
Software Weblog]
Can't say anything about UCLA - but I know that Affinity Engines
has a system for USC, as well as
Stanford and an upcoming one
for U. of Mich.
Photos and Social Networks
Photos and Social Networks
03/14/2005 06:11 PMVery cool visualizations of relationships among photo-sharing users
at FlickrLand.
Social Networks Visualiser 0.33
Social Networks Visualiser 0.33
05/23/2004 10:28 PMA social networks visualizer for Linux.
Looking for gold in social networks
Looking for gold in social networks
02/10/2004 02:36 AMBut those plans could be short-circuited by Internet giants like Yahoo
and Google, as well as by established players in the online jobs and
dating categories ...
Social Networks Visualiser 0.32
Social Networks Visualiser 0.32
05/12/2004 05:34 AMA social networks visualizer.
IFTF on Social Networks
IFTF on Social Networks
04/09/2004 04:02 PMNext week I'm attending an Institute for the Future event on their
technology forecast. Came across a sample report on Social Networks in
the World of Abundant Connectivity (.pdf) that had this great comment
on technology product design: Social networks...
Social Networks Against Spam
Social Networks Against Spam
02/18/2004 02:56 PMWhile the various social networking services continue to push forward,
some researchers are using the same basic concept of linking people to
their friends to see if
social networks
can help fight spam. The idea is that most people get their email
from a limited social network of people, and that network can be
worked out by looking at the "to:" "from:" and "cc:" portions of your
email. The theory being that if I know two people, they're much more
likely to know each other as well, and the system can link them, and
assume that if they email each other it's unlikely to be spam. Spam
messages, however, have no such linkage, and are more easily picked
out from the crowd. Of course, it doesn't sound like this works all
that well. You don't get any false positives, but it seems to only
recognize a little over 50% of all spam. The folks behind this
research say it's still useful, if used in combination with other spam
filtering techniques.
Social Networks: Will Users Pay to Get
Friends?
Social Networks: Will Users Pay to Get
Friends?
02/10/2004 02:55 AMDespite impressive recent growth, social networking Web sites like
Friendster face a challenge: how to make money.
Missing the Point of Social Networks
Missing the Point of Social Networks
01/03/2004 11:02 PMI thought I was done talking about this stuff, but I guess not. In
response to my FriendRank post, I noticed something on
StartupSkills.com that I've been hearing lots of recently: Like so
many people, I've used Friendster and found it an intriguing idea from
both a technical and business standpoint. It is a revolutionary
concept, although by no means is it original. Social networking is a
subject taught in business schools around the globe. The
'entrepreneurial model' of social...
Social networks by referrer, through
bl0grolls
Social networks by referrer, through
bl0grolls
06/12/2002 06:22 AMMark Pilgrim compiles blogrolls from his referrer stats, then from the
blogrolls of the people he links to in his blogroll, then one level
further.Update: Mark does it with the Google "related links" feature
too, and says it would make a nice web service. It's my opinion such
web services will most probably exist by next year, if not sooner.
MSNBC: Social Networks Go to Work
MSNBC: Social Networks Go to Work
07/29/2004 05:06 PMI just filed this story for MSNBC about the business value of social
networking services. Truth or hype: can some SNSes become helpful
professional tools for businesses -- in particular, independent
entrepreneurs and smaller companies, for whom each new personal
connection is a significant business building block? Includes
interviews with unrepentant compulsive digital networkers
danah boyd,
Frank Keeney of
SOCALWUG,
Noah Glass of
audblog, Scott Beale of
Laughing Squid,
Scott Rafer of
Feedster, Travis Kalanick of
RedSwoosh (and, once upon a time,
Scour.net), and human router
Joi Ito
-- who said this:
Their usefulness depends on your needs and networking style. LinkedIn,
for example allows you to search histories and CVs in your network --
it's great for finding people who work in a particular company, or who
have worked with someone you know. It's also an interesting way to
find references for people or companies you're getting to know.
I think email is broken in a serious way, and SNS is trying to address
some of the issues associated with that breakdown. These networks may
get it right and really change the way we do business, but we're still
at the beginning of the development and evolution curve.
LinkThe Heisenberg uncertainty of social
networks
The Heisenberg uncertainty of social
networks
01/04/2004 05:54 PM
One of my New Year's resolutions is to open up this weblog to a wider
audience. So on first mention of something obscurely technical, I'll
try to define it. Today's obscurely technical topic: FOAF.
...Competition in Social Networks of Agents
Competition in Social Networks of Agents
09/25/2004 07:43 PMA new TRN
article discusses a new quantitative model of agent competition. The
new model has potential uses in many fields including the optimization
of communication and control within robot collectives. Traditional
game
theory has limitations in describing complex interaction in
collectives
of intelligent agents. The new theory allows the agents to make
choices
based on incomplete information. Even though mistakes are made, each
agent has access to the knowledge and experiences of its neighbors
allowing the collective to evolve complex dynamics quickly. One of the
more interesting results is that the a scalable leadership system of
"hubs" within the collective evolves spontaneously. For a more
in-depth
look at the theory and research see the original research paper:
Competition in Social
Networks: Emergence of a Scale-free Leadership Structure and
Collective
Efficiency (PDF format). The research was done
by M. Anghel, Zoltan
Toroczkai, Kevin E.
Bassler, and Gyorgy
Korniss. It was funded by grants from the Department of Energy and
National Science Foundation.
Identity Theft and Social Networks
Identity Theft and Social Networks
01/02/2004 06:09 PMscubacuda writes "This Security Focus article looks at the lack of
security social network sites have, particularly their lack of SSL
logins, which means a ...
The problems of visualising social
networks...
The problems of visualising social
networks...
03/06/2004 01:55 AMFrom a pithy and somehow true post by Stewart Butterfield on
the
problems of creating visualisations of social networks:
Artist/curator friend Mark Soo did a piece for one of the
Infest openings where he visualized the curators' social network using
balloons with people's names printed on them as the nodes and ribbons
tying them together as the edges (the data comes from "invites" he got
the curators to send to one another). This was a great, inviting,
tactile "graph manipulaton interface". But the reason I liked it so
much was that it really brought out the problems of social networks
visualizations as a way of learning about the networks being
visualized: too confusing!
He also cites a few examples of some of the attempts to visualise
them - the problems should become self-evident:
Two things immediately occur to me - firstly how do we as humans
make sense of this data in our everyday lives (because we're
incorporating at least some of it into our mental models, surely, and
understanding that would make it easier for us to enhance those models
rather than creating new ones that create nothing but cognitive
overload), and secondly What would Tufte
do?.
Read the comments
Inferring and Visualizing Social
Networks on IRC
Inferring and Visualizing Social
Networks on IRC
01/22/2004 06:16 PMBy using an
IRC bot to
monitor the activity in an IRC channel, it is possible to infer a
social network that connects the users in the channel.
Visualizing these social
networks is not only interesting, but has a variety of potential
applications.
Esther Dyson on Social Networks
Esther Dyson on Social Networks
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Adding Fees To Social Networks
Adding Fees To Social Networks
01/27/2004 02:24 AMOkay, take an idea that's being done to death all over the internet
for free - with new (sometimes deep pocketed) players showing up every
day. Then, wait until the market is so saturated that most people are
already getting sick of the idea... and then try to charge for it.
That appears to be the plan of Tickle (formerly eMode) that is now
going to try
to
start charging for some aspects of their "social network"
Friendster-clone. Since they know they're the first, and they must
know they're going to face backlash, they're only charging if you want
to contact someone who is separated by more than four degrees from you
- at which point, I wonder what the point of social networking is? If
the idea is to meet friends of friends because they might have similar
interests, what's the value in using such a system to meet a friend of
a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend? Isn't that just a
stranger? There are lots of ways to meet strangers online that don't
cost money.
"Social networks: will users pay to get
friends?"
"Social networks: will users pay to get
friends?"
02/10/2004 09:18 AMMSNBC - Online social networks go to
work
MSNBC - Online social networks go to
work
07/30/2004 05:07 AMOnline social networks go to work - Where personal connections lead to
professional allies .. it's now online on
MSNBC
msnbc.msn.com/id/5488683
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boyd's social networks talk from ETCON
boyd's social networks talk from ETCON
02/11/2004 06:56 PMdanah boyd has posted the text of her ETCON talk,
Re
venge of the User: Lessons from Creator/User Battles.
Asking favors is fundamentally different than offering them. People
gain by being bridges. Thus, to be able to tell you about a job gives
me whuffie in our relationship. Feeling pressured to connect you to an
open job makes me uncomfortable. In all of the networks described
above, the bridge got to control the information flow. In Milgram's
"Small Worlds," if you didn't know that i knew the target person, you
may not have tried to pass it on to me. If you don't know that i am
dating someone who has something that you want, you won't try to
pressure me into giving you access to it. Thus, i can choose when to
reveal my connections in a situation where i can come across as being
helpful, rather than being put in a position to feel cornered.
Revealing the network shifts the power.
LinkNew Search Engine Taps Into Social
Networks
New Search Engine Taps Into Social
Networks
01/22/2004 07:26 PMGoogle, the most popular Internet search engine, ranks results by
polling all of cyberspace to find the most relevant information. ...
Detecting Patterns in Complex Social
Networks
Detecting Patterns in Complex Social
Networks
02/16/2004 01:14 PMBoingBoing reader
Roland
Piquepaille says:
So-called social networking is very popular these days, as
show the proliferation of services like Friendster, Orkut and dozens
of others. But do the companies behind these services have any idea
of what is hidden inside their complicated networks? When these
networks reach a size of millions of users, it's not an easy task. A
researcher at the University of Michigan is trying to help, with a new
method for uncovering patterns in complicated networks, from football
conferences to food webs. This
overview contains more details and references about this
non-traditional method. It also includes a spectacular representation
of the Internet and another image showing a food web at Little Rock
Lake.
LinkMissing the Point of Social
Networks...and other things
Missing the Point of Social
Networks...and other things
01/04/2004 12:18 AMJeremy
Zawodny: "If you really think that Friendster, Tribe, LinkedIn, or
any of those other sites are going to survive doing what they're doing
today, you're really smoking something. However, if you think that
also means the technology isn't worthwhile--that the notion of
modeling social networks in software is a pointless exercise, well
then you're
really smoking something good. You
couldn't be more wrong."
True. This reminds me of a tendency I notice constantly and have been
meaning to articulate: The inability to see others evolving
(companies, products, people), even though one's own vision is all
about oneself (or company, or product) evolving.
Come to think of it, this is a corollary to one of my favoriate
truisms: We judge ourselves by our intensions and others by their
actions.
Namespaces and Social Networks in a
Tagged World
Namespaces and Social Networks in a
Tagged World
02/05/2005 09:12 PM
David Weinberger has
a brilliant
quick statement about how BOTH namespaces and social networks will
be used to disambiguate tags'.
I sure as hell hope so. I'd hate it if there was nothing to
disambiguate tags.
Namespaces and Social Networks in a Tagged World
As the interest in tagging and folksonomies grows, we are going to be
faced with a choice: Namespaces or social networks.
The problem is that tags are too simple and ambiguous. (That's also
their strength, but we'll let that go for the moment.) As tens of
millions of people start tagging Web resources, many tags will include
too many disparate items: When you're searching for pages about
London, do you really want to get pages about Jack London? And, no one
really wants information about London; we always want information
about some aspect of a topic. So, the "London"-tagged pages about
London's club scene are noise to someone looking for information about
London's form of government.
Namespaces, or domains of discourse if you prefer, are one way
around this. For example, the Global Voices group that encourages
inter-national blogging, suggests tagging relevant pages with the
prefix "gv" as in "gv:ghana" or "gv:thailand." We will undoubtedly see
a proliferation of such prefixes, and if tagging really takes off, we
may end up with an unregulated version of the domain system in which
multiple organizations squabble over who gets to use a particular
prefix.
Social networks provide an alternative. If I knew who the people
associated with Global Voices were, and if I knew who was the author
of particular tags, I could search for the "ghana" tag and find only
the ones created by GV members. That wouldn't be perfect because it
would get pages tagged by GV members for personal use, but it might be
good enough, especially with further refinement.
This is not an either/or. I'm confident we're going to see both
namespaces and social networks used to disambiguate tags. And there
are undoubtedly brilliant ideas waiting to be had. But it seems highly
likely to me that social networks are going to become more important
than ever in a world gone made with tagging.
[Operating
Manual for Social Tools]
I love this piece.
It's especially heartening for me to listen to David talk about
social networks - as I know he's against the 'Friendster/Tribe' school
of thought - but seems to have accepted a more generalized notion of
what social networks are - and will be.
Anyway - I never said I liked those explicit social networks - it's
just that it was so much dam fun gaming them (apparently Joi had fun
-too!) But it's up to folks like David - who keep us honest -
especially when it comes to the difference between something explcit
liek calling someone "your friend" - versus truth and honesty.
New post to Global Guerrillas:
Terrorist Social Networks
New post to Global Guerrillas:
Terrorist Social Networks
04/09/2004 03:57 PMTerrorist Social Networks. A common
misconception of terrorist networks is that they are solely violent in
nature.
My 2004 Crystal Ball: Search, Social
Networks, Reputation, RSS
My 2004 Crystal Ball: Search, Social
Networks, Reputation, RSS
12/08/2003 11:43 AMGiven the upcoming new year, I figure it's a good time to share what
my crystal ball is telling me. The year 2004 will be exciting for
technologists. Pressure has been building in several areas that are
poised to really cook next year. Here's my brief take on each of them.
Search: Personalization and Relevance Let's face it, PageRank is Dead.
Really. I've said it once and I'll say it again. Google knows this.
Microsoft knows this. Anyone seriously into...
"Jeremy Zawodny's bl0g: Missing the
Point of Social Networks"
"Jeremy Zawodny's bl0g: Missing the
Point of Social Networks"
01/06/2004 03:19 AMSocial Influence In Distributed Power
Networks Of The Early 21st Century
Internet
Social Influence In Distributed Power
Networks Of The Early 21st Century
Internet
09/14/2004 07:34 AMPlastic.com - Tue Sep 14, 09:51 am GMT
V2N18 May 3, 2004 Current Awareness
Happenings on the Internet: Online
Social Networks
V2N18 May 3, 2004 Current Awareness
Happenings on the Internet: Online
Social Networks
05/03/2004 06:56 AMThis edition of
Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by
Marcus P. Zillman, M.S.,
A.M.H.A. (
May 3, 2004 V2N18) is dedicated to the latest
happenings in
Online Social Networks. Click on the
audblog link at the bottom of this posting to hear an audio by Marcus
P. Zillman discussing these new and exciting networks. The below
listed sites are some of the latest and greatest online social
networks:
Friendster (beta)http://www.friendster.com/Friendster is an online community that connects people through
networks of friends for dating or making new friends.
Institute for Social Network Analysis of the Economy
(ISNAE)http://www.isnae.org/index.html
The purpose of ISNAE is to study social networks and use the
resulting knowledge to promote economic growth and social well-being.
LinkedInhttp://www.linkedin.com/Find
the people you need through the people you trust - Your trusted
friends and colleagues can help put you in touch with many more people
than you expect; and those people can refer you to thousands of
contacts.
Orkuthttp://www.orkut.com/Orkut is
an online community that connects people through a network of trusted
friends. They are committed to providing an online meeting place where
people can socialize, make new acquaintances and find others who share
their interests.
PeopleAggregatorhttp://www.PeopleAggregator.co
m/An Open Source Social Network
Spoke -
Extending Business Relationshipshttp://www.spoke.com/Delivering
insight, influence and access through relationships for greater
business advantage.
Tribehttp://www.Tribe.netThis site is
devoted to tapping the power of social networks. Their goal is to
provide tools that help make your network most useful.
Visible Pathhttp://www.visiblepath.com/Visible Path delivers unprecedented reach into companies and access
to decision-makers by allowing sales teams to discreetly leverage the
relationship capital of the enterprise throughout the sales cycle.
Zaibatsuhttp://community.alwayso
n-network.com/Listing for this social networked received
from a Slashdot posting ....
Zero Degrees™ - The
People Network Companyhttp://www.zerodegrees.com/ZeroDegrees (ZDI) automates Milgram's process. ZDI replicates the
social process we use when we ask colleagues with an introduction. If
no one knows the person directly, they ask others on our behalf. If
all parties along the way, agree-an introduction is made and discreet
contact information shared.
The Slashdot article that
discusses PeopleAgreggator an Open Source Social Network is available
by clicking
here.
Social Networks are gaining great popularity and we will be hearing
and seeing many new and niched networks in the near future. Please
send me listings of social networks that I have not listed and I will
continue to keep this posting up to date.
audblog audio
post
Jeremy Zawodny's bl0g: My 2004 Crystal
Ball: Search, Social Networks,
Reputation, RSS
Jeremy Zawodny's bl0g: My 2004 Crystal
Ball: Search, Social Networks,
Reputation, RSS
12/09/2003 09:42 AMZawodny
jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/001178.html
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"Jeremy Zawodny's bl0g: My 2004 Crystal
Ball: Search, Social Networks,
Reputation, RSS"
"Jeremy Zawodny's bl0g: My 2004 Crystal
Ball: Search, Social Networks,
Reputation, RSS"
12/10/2003 10:15 PMExplicitly constructed social networks
not only lack the differentiation that
makes relationships real, they are
falsehoods built to reinforce spectral
relationships and to avoid ending shaky
ones
Explicitly constructed social networks
not only lack the differentiation that
makes relationships real, they are
falsehoods built to reinforce spectral
relationships and to avoid ending shaky
ones
01/05/2004 04:58 AMYay to David Weinberger .. Corante
Many2Many
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matter.php
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Social Issues Surround Social Software
(Ziff Davis)
Social Issues Surround Social Software
(Ziff Davis)
06/25/2004 10:06 AMZiff Davis - Participants in the Supernova conference give insight
into the social dynamics around the use of online social networking
services, Weblogs and wikis.
eTwine.com Launches Fun & Interactive
Free Blogging Tool and Becomes First
Social Site to Integrate Blogs with
Social Networking & Online Dating
Features
eTwine.com Launches Fun & Interactive
Free Blogging Tool and Becomes First
Social Site to Integrate Blogs with
Social Networking & Online Dating
Features
08/13/2004 12:47 PMeTwine.com integrates new interactive blogging tool with its existing
social networking, online dating, and event planning features.
Members can share their blogs entries with friends and other members,
as well as rate other blogs, add comments to any entry, and sort
entries by most popular and highest rated in this unique feature.
[PRWEB Aug 13, 2004]
Social Issues Surround Social Software
Social Issues Surround Social Software
06/25/2004 09:01 AMParticipants in the Supernova conference give insight into the social
dynamics around the use of online social networking services, Weblogs
and wikis.
WiFi, Cellular, and Wired Networks
Merging To Form Pervasive Networks in
Homes and Offices, Says INSIGHT Research
WiFi, Cellular, and Wired Networks
Merging To Form Pervasive Networks in
Homes and Offices, Says INSIGHT Research
12/22/2004 01:46 AMPervasive networks—a ubiquitous “fabric” of computing, information,
entertainment, and telemetry capability tied together by high-speed
wired and wireless networks—are emerging from a flurry of new
communication technologies now being used in home and office networks.
Though communications carriers do not offer this type of continuous
communication as a service today, the piece parts are already in
place. [PRWEB Dec 20, 2004]
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More venture capitalists' investment in
Silicon Valley
More venture capitalists' investment in
Silicon Valley
01/28/2004 11:21 AMPress Trust of India Jan 28 2004 3:53PM GMT
Motorola's venture arm makes investment
in China
Motorola's venture arm makes investment
in China
12/03/2003 04:59 PMReuters Dec 3 2003 4:05PM ET
Private Investment Firm Buys MusicNet
Venture
Private Investment Firm Buys MusicNet
Venture
04/13/2005 12:06 AMMusicNet, a joint venture created by the music industry to provide a
legal alternative to the illegal sharing of music files, has been sold
to Baker Capital.
Social Network Sites Are Making Friends
With Venture Funds
Social Network Sites Are Making Friends
With Venture Funds
11/18/2003 03:34 AMInvestors Business Daily Nov 18 2003 3:02AM ET
Matsushita sets up joint venture for 3G
networks in China
Matsushita sets up joint venture for 3G
networks in China
11/06/2003 02:57 AMAFP via Yahoo! Nov 6 2003 2:07AM ET
Apparent Networks Honored as 2004
Venture All Star Company
Apparent Networks Honored as 2004
Venture All Star Company
06/09/2004 12:41 PMBC Technology Jun 9 2004 4:05PM GMT
TSX Venture Exchange - Cease Trade Order
- Cinema Internet Networks Inc. - CWK
TSX Venture Exchange - Cease Trade Order
- Cinema Internet Networks Inc. - CWK
12/30/2004 11:42 PMInvestors Business Daily Dec 31 2004 4:02AM GMT
Software earns top venture backing
Software earns top venture backing
04/27/2004 11:29 AMZDNet Apr 27 2004 3:41PM GMT
Software recaptures venture crown
Software recaptures venture crown
04/27/2004 11:29 AMZDNet Apr 27 2004 3:42PM GMT
Christopher Allen, Rip Van Winkle
Christopher Allen, Rip Van Winkle
03/06/2004 01:57 AM
I met Christopher Allen about a decade ago, when he ran Consensus
Development, a company that made a commercial SSL toolkit. (Prior to
that, he was involved in the startup of VeriSign, and in the
development of the SSL reference implementation for Netscape.) I
hadn't heard from him in a long time, and his recent essay,
Se
curity and Cryptography: The Bad Business of Fear, explains why.
When he sold his company to Certicom in 1999, he signed a
5
3-year non-compete agreement. When it expired, he re-entered the
security industry, expecting to find it much changed:
Internet time had still been moving fast back in 1999 and I wasn't
sure how many generations had gone by in the security industry. One,
two, more?
...Top industries for venture investments
in 2004: software, biotech, telecom
Top industries for venture investments
in 2004: software, biotech, telecom
04/03/2005 09:38 PMZDNet Apr 4 2005 1:31AM GMT
Avoid Friendster and its clones, warns
security expert
Avoid Friendster and its clones, warns
security expert
02/10/2004 02:48 AMPrivacy grab
The Social Software Patent Mess
The Social Software Patent Mess
11/12/2003 01:34 PMNot sure what it is with silly patent messes this evening, but they're
popping up in every other story. The latest one details some of the
pendi
ng patent fights likely to happen in the tremendously overhyped social
software world. There's been a lot of inbreeding within the
social software world with a number of the early players all investing
in each other. Reid Hoffman and Marc Pincus, for example, were both
early investors in Friendster - and then went on to create their own
social networking services that targeted different markets. However,
now that the venture capitalists have swooped in, the fear of a patent
battle is increasing. Jonathan Abrams of Friendster raised some
eyebrows a few months back when reporters asked him about business
models and he started ranting on and on about the patents they planned
to get. So now, Hoffman and Pincus have teamed up (without Abrams) to
buy the old patent that SixDegrees had many years ago. They're
basically hoping to use it as a defensive tactic against any patents
Friendster gets. I'm still wondering just what's so innovative about
any of these services that deserves a patent, but that's a different
debate. The article has plenty of details about what's happening, but
all I could think while reading this was that this focus on patents,
rather than actual innovation, business models or customers suggests
some of these services are already on the downswing. The "space"
itself hasn't even figured out a revenue model and new sites are
showing up every day - and the focus is on who gets the patents? It
has all the makings of a nice little infighting battle where all these
companies drag each other down.
Venture 1.1.0
Venture 1.1.0
04/21/2004 10:18 AMBecome the world’s largest venture capitalist by buying, selling
and trading stock, all while trying to expand your own companies.
AT&T's VoIP Venture
AT&T's VoIP Venture
09/23/2004 03:11 PMAfter hanging up on long distance, the carrier dials for profits
through Net telephony.
Joint Venture
Joint Venture
06/15/2002 12:22 AMWebTechniques Jun 15 2002 0:02AM ET
Venture capital up
Venture capital up
12/30/2004 06:51 AMUSA Today Dec 30 2004 10:58AM GMT
Venture Capital 101
Venture Capital 101
01/06/2005 06:55 AM
In all the speculation about the deal I haven't seen what
surely is the motivator. Six Apart plans to go public. The market will
value SA based on it's ability to generate profits, and it will likely
do so in proportion to the number of users, the theory being that they
can sell things to the users, so the more users, the more they can
sell. They might value each user at $100. Anyway, the more users the
more value. LJ has a lot of users. So the founders of LJ get SA stock,
and the shareholders in SA get more users, and value of the combined
companies goes up and the day of the IPO gets closer.
Venture capital goes up
Venture capital goes up
12/30/2004 12:21 AMUSA Today Dec 30 2004 3:34AM GMT
Display venture looks toward IPO
Display venture looks toward IPO
06/29/2004 07:33 AMZDNet Jun 29 2004 11:56AM GMT
Is Venture Capital Over?
Is Venture Capital Over?
04/14/2005 04:52 AMA well known venture capitalist is apparently claiming that
the age of the VC is over, and is getting out of the
business. The specifics of his claim are that VCs won't be able to
earn the same sorts of returns they did in the 90s, which he chalks up
to "systemic change." If anything, it sounds like he's channeling
Nicho
las Carr, who believes the tech industry is becoming commoditized
and boring (misunderstanding that things first get interesting when
stuff gets commoditized). Of course, the silly thing is that he seems
to be comparing today's VC returns to what you could get in the 90s.
He claims that "the eye-popping returns that make venture capital
famous are history." Of course, the easy response to that is that
perhaps most of the "eye-popping returns" were the aberration in the
first place, built on the bubble of hype-cycles past. That means
there's still plenty of opportunity in
real innovation -- and
even without that, you can bet that there will be more hype cycles and
bubbles.
History<
/a> practically guarantees it. While bubbles aren't good for
everyone, good VCs generally are able to make out quite well (since
they bail out early enough) -- and we've already explained why bubbl
es eventually are good for most people. While it's bad for those
who get sucked up in the hype, it does accelerate innovation by
allowing a lot of companies to quickly test (and discard!) many
different ideas.
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3G venture
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3G venture
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NEC in joint venture with India's HCL
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a software joint venture in India with HCL Technologies, an Indian
software services company in Noida near
Delhi.
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venture
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venture
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