Author Archive for epigonic
The $34M funding of Daily Motion yesterday, on top of other monster rounds by Veoh and Metacafe, has people talking about the video sharing space again. Om Malik has an interesting wrap up here.
For a while, people have argued that there can only be so many video sharing sites. I think that’s probably right if [...]
When Apple unveiled the iPhone earlier in the year, I wrote a love letter to the phone and told the haters to go away.
I intentionally held off buying one the first couple of months (those always seem to be the roughest months for new Apple products).
Got one, finally, today. Easy set up (so pleasantly predictable), [...]
VC Fred Wilson started an interesting conversation of few weeks ago about “the mid-life entrepreneurial crisis” in which he noted how few entrepreneurs are over 40.
His initial post was followed by many others.
I’m a first-time entrepreneur in my early 40s, so I’ve found the arguments and debate interesting.
Based on my own experience the past year, [...]
Sighted: a recent outbreak of VCs complaining about a “bubble” and web 2.0 being over.
Now, it was just over a year ago I sighted outbreak #1 of Valley Bubble Schadenfreude. So why the talk now from VCs about a bubble, and not then (when many, indeed, we’re in the process of writing bubble-inflating posts, not [...]
Last week, Fred Wilson wrote a post about why the embed code matters, and argued they are what’s important because they are “what makes video go viral.”
I’d go further: the embed code is the new hyperlink for video. Not having an embed code for your video is like not having a hyperlink for your site [...]
Commentary, analysis and posts are flying around the ether the past week in the wake of Viacom’s take-down demands to YouTube, and in the past day, NBC’s threatening words directed at YouTube.
Oddly, many bloggers are simply doing Google’s bidding by simplistically portraying NBC and Viacom as VERY BAD and Google/YouTube as VERY GOOD . When, [...]
Don’t know why, been on a Robert Graves kick recently. Started with Goodbye to All That last year (a better screed against war, especially those of the mindless variety, I’ve not read, go read it if you haven’t already) and have moved on to the Roman historical novels more recently (I Claudius, Claudius the God [...]
When SecondLife hype swept the land a few months ago, the recent spasm of SecondLife backlash was sadly predictable.
I’ve been wanting to jump in and offer a comment about all this, and the related Bubble Watch & “Web 2.0 DeadPool” fetishes that currently grip the Silicon Valley commentariat for a couple of weeks. [...]
I’ve written so many love letters to last.fm already, I hardly need add another.
But my love for the service is captured by my experience in just the past 2 songs (it’s on now):
Savoy Truffle, the George Harrison gem from the White Album
Grandaddy doing a cover of Fun Fun Fun.
It’s the discovery of new (or in [...]
I use Apple products, but am no Apple fanboy. That said, I want one. An iPhone that is. And I’ll take the Apple TV while we’re at it.
Predictably, after the near-24 hour initial buzzfest, we have a counter-attack by a squadron of the “I woke up this morning and wondered why the hell I [...]
