Got Quoted in the Wall Street Journal. That doesn’t happen every day! 🙂 Here it is: “The funding of mobile first companies will increase significantly.” — Keith Teare, general partner, Archimedes Labs
[read more]...My good pal Mike has a new blog at uncrunched.com. Check it out.
[read more]...Fred Wilson has a response today to Eric Schmidt’s declaration in Edinburgh that Google+ is an “identity service”. He asks and answers his own question. “whom Google built this service for? You or them. And the answer to why you need to use your real name in the service is because they need you to.” Of course Facebook is also an identity service. Facebook Connect is the means of distributing it. And of course Facebook too is built using real names because “they need you to”. At this level FaceBook and Google have much in common, and both are vying
[read more]...I turned on Meet the Press at 8am Pacific time this morning to see one of the Gang of Six declaring that he would not agree to severe cuts in spending so long as President Obama insisted on raising taxes for the wealthy. I had to shake my head and clear my thoughts as my brain started to focus on what I was hearing. The Guardian leader that has appeared in the UK publication’s Monday morning edition (see graphic) makes clear the fears others in the world have for the consequences for the world economy if the US defaults on
[read more]...Yesterday, Bay Area start-up Quixey announced that Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors fund had invested in the company. I’m pleased to say that along with my partners in Archimedes Ventures we have also joined the roster of investors in the company. All the best to Tomer Kagan and his team as they execute. The technology they have built is state of the art. Their team is fabulous. The world is theirs to grab. Exciting times. Sign up for the beta here TechCrunch story here GigaOm story here.
[read more]...One of my hobbies is photography. I have a Canon 5D Mk II. It makes great pictures and also awesome videos. Check out http://planet5d.com for examples. Now the world of video is beginning to respond to the arrival of DSLR cameras that can do great video. There are three recent entrants into the space. They all significantly reduce the price point of awesome video. In order of release they are: 1. The Panasonic AG-AF100 2. The Sony PMW-F3 3. The Sony NEX FS-100 Here are samples of each: [vimeo 21556060 w=400 h=225] AG-AF100 test – Poi girl in Union Square,
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