Archive for April, 2006
Your Tube, Whose Dime?
(Forbes) The Web lets users watch whatever they want, whenever they want to watch it. So what do they want to see? A home-made video of two boys lip-synching along to the Pokémon television theme song. Internet video site YouTube has streamed the video more than 9.5 million times in the last four months, making it the site’s most-watched movie.
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28 Apr
Clip culture
(The Economist) A start-up shows big media and mighty Google how to do web video. Their simple idea was to make uploading home videos to the internet easy. It turns out that millions of people already had such videos and were just waiting for a way to share them.
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27 Apr
Big venture capital funds are back
(Business 2.0) Norwest Venture Partners is raising a $650 million fund - its largest ever. But that doesn’t necessarily mean a bubble is afoot.
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24 Apr
The Next Social Networks Won’t Look Like MySpace
(BusinessWeek) So says Marc Pincus, who knows something about social networks from his time at Tribe Networks. Marc wonders if the current online social networks will survive their members, well, growing up and running out of time for mostly checking each other out. As people get older, he thinks, they’ll tend to favor services with a more overt utility than MySpace and The Facebook–something I suspect could happen as well.
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24 Apr
Facebook Receives $25M Investment
(MarketingVOX) Facebook has received a $25 million investment from venture-capital firm Greylock Partners in a third round of funding, which came after recent rumors of a $750 million buyout offer that was rejected.
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21 Apr
