Tom Coates wrote in his blog today about the dearth of Web 2.0 style start-ups in the U.K. His entry titled, “Where are all the UK start-ups?” is a great analogy to my feelings along a similar vien “Where are all of the Texas start-ups?” Lengthly, but worth it read. Check it out. (I met [...]

Last night Mike Orren and I got together at Fuse to have a few drinks and to talk about his new company Pegasus News. The company is ‘Web 2.0esque’, but it might be better described as Journalism 2.0. Several influential and smart angel investors are backing the venture with their money and experience. It is [...]

During SuperNova2005 one of the presenters was polling the audience to see who had cameras intergrated with their phones (about half did). He narrowed the group to almost zero by asking how many people had cameras who were older than 35. This really started me thinking about cellphones and cameras. Last weekend I was hanging [...]

Thanks to the guys at Archimedes Ventures via TechCrunch for the shout-out. Here is their elfURL profile. If you are a follower of things associated with Web 2.0 you might want to subscribe to their feed – I know I do!

Last Monday I posted an entry with an idea for a new little Web 2.0 application to replace Tinyurl. Basically I suggested that it would be helpful to have a tool to make long URLs shorter, while at the same time providing a way to apply delicious tags, while at the same time adding statistics [...]

I won’t go into any detail, but Bill Burnham wrote a GREAT article about the MySpace/News Corp. deal. VantagePoint did rather well. Great case study! This is why I love reading VC blogs!

Shadows is an interesting Web 2.0 application from the guys at Pluck. Think Delicious or Furl. Looks like I will be headed to Austin…

I found this interesting service that turns your movies into “castposts”. I have an in-car camera and pulled a .mov file from it and uploaded it to my Castpost account. The link to my movie was super long so I used Tinyurl.com to make a small URL. To see my castpost visit: http://tinyurl.com/8meuz To view [...]

Business Week’s Cliff Edwards is reporting that TiVo Adds Ads. Cliff asks, “Can someone say identity crisis?”

My previous posts on the long tail suggested that it might apply outside of media and entertainment. Here is the article I was thinking about: DOES THE LONG TAIL APPLY OUTSIDE OF MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT?