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Re: Microsoft/Yahoo…What if it’s even Worse than I have Postulated so Far?

John Furrier — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:43:49 -0000

great post.. i would add that look at the hp/compaq merger???

here is a comment on my facebook wall from a long time insider at msft

"Since you're thinking about MSFT/YHOO, my 2c: First, it's a $44 billion admission that MS couldn't get search and advertising right. Second, the culture clash will be dramatic. The only good part about it is that MSN could never decide if it wanted to be Google (alpha engineers) or Yahoo (content gods); now they've implicitly chosen the latter. We'll see if that works. The trailblazers are actually aQuantive. They were assured that the MS engineers would do what the aQuantive biz people decided. Too early to tell if that'll actually work, but it'll be a leading indicator for the success of the YHOO acquisition. I'm not sanguine"

Re: Techmeme: A Cautionary Tale

John Furrier — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:54:26 -0000

great post Fred. sites like Techcrunch don't qualify as a blog any more ..it's a webzine with trackbacks and comments. Techmeme is great but like it's early days it isn't a conversation anymore... it's writers working hard to bump their way to the top of the noice mountain...

i would like to see the 'real' conversations. The NYTimes and CNet don't have conversations - they may start them but they don't participate. What I have always like about bloggers is their unique voice and the participation... the best of the bloggers talk with their audience -

Re: What My Kids Tell Me About The Future of Media

John Furrier — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:33:39 -0000

nice fresh post...you must have had a great vacation..i've been watching my kids since 2000..

http://furrier.org/2008/01/06/future-of-media-t...

my daughter thinks youtube is TV; and my son doesn't know what yahoo is..

Re: The Times Are Indeed Changin' (continued)

John Furrier — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 10:21:11 -0000

Fred: I was thinking the same thing last night and posted on this as well.. I agree with you

Entrepreneurs beware Microsoft buying Yahoo could shut down the tech startup scene. It could send the startup climate back to 2001 levels - nuclear winter shut down. I lived through 2001-2004. It was ugly.

Efficiency for Microsoft means leverage with suppliers. Translation: Startups are suppliers and Microsoft just became Walmart. This could have a chilling effect on the VC and tech investment community. This new industry structure puts even more of an emphasis on 'hits' or category specific deals. This could get ugly.

Advice for Technology Startups and VCs: Understand where your company is in the pecking order in this war. If you're not an arms dealer then you might want to rethink your strategy.

http://furrier.org/2008/02/02/entrepreneurs-bew...

Re: Silicon Valley Arrogance

John Furrier — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:47:55 -0000

Fred,
I know that you visit alot but I was wondering if you lived here in Silcon Valley? I've lived in palo alto since 1999 before that east coast massachusetts and new jersey (ny metro). I've started companies on both coasts. There is a big difference agreed. Just because there is a culture here that is much different than the east but that comment doensn't justify you to globalize Silicon Valley.

I've found that the SV attitude is similar to that of New Yorkers on Wall Street. New Yorkers are much more direct 'in your face' and SV is more 'cloak and dagger'.

I think that it's a style difference. That being said geography really isn't becoming a factor in terms of who is in the know or has a clue.

Look at it this way you have one more person (that guy) who know you have a clue. :-)

Re: Where My Traffic Comes From

John Furrier — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:32:22 -0000

Fred,
What were your total unique visits? You mention page views but how about sharing the unqiue number? I'll share mine if you share yours.

Thanks
john

Re: Where My Traffic Comes From

John Furrier — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:50:00 -0000

Thanks Fred. I'm a man of my word :-)

furrier.org blog did 18k uniques for the qtr around 6.5k per month ... i have no idea how many subscribers are hitting the feed.

Re: The Declining Power Of The Firm

John Furrier — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:49:48 -0000

It's great to see the big thinkers are picking up on the main message to this post..

http://furrier.org/2008/04/03/influencers-have-...

influence isn't about people - it's about groups.. ding ding 1 point for fred wilson; welcome to the party Fred. You're doing the community a great service by point out Hamir's post and your view on it..

classic b-school stuff but very relevent as the modern web evolves as 'infrastructure transactional' engine or a 'vertical engine'.

Re: Where To Go For Inspiration?

John Furrier — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:39:40 -0000

what are you trying to say? wait that's a blog post :-)

Re: My Techmeme Obsession

John Furrier — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:15:46 -0000

Individual bloggers have a hard time staying on the leaderboard because the linkage isn't there from others. You have to chase the news if you want linkage (which drives the leaderboard). Thought leadership and opinion is what the individual blog and blogger is all about.

Re: This News Made Me Smile A Mile Wide

John Furrier — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:12:48 -0000

Thanks God we now are going to see some real innovation.. Broadband for everyone and open internet. Big smile here

Re: When Talking About Business Models, Remember That Profits Equal Revenues Minus Costs

John Furrier — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 11:54:07 -0000

Nice post Fred! Digging into the word "cost" is the key.

Re: Default Behavior and the Internet Operating System

John Furrier — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:13:25 -0000

very true indeed. Game changing ventures require game changing thinking. Well said Fred.

For example to add to your post. I've been a big fan of Twitter's approach and have blogged about it many times - nail the user experience and they will own the new category then monetization will be as easy as brushing your teeth. Well that was when they had 2m users. Bada bing. Sill no monetization and boom hello hockey stick growth.. they still have money in the bank so they won't be going out of business anytime soon but more importantly they can just wait til a match between user experience and monetization "shows its head".

That's my ANGLE

Re: Default Behavior and the Internet Operating System

John Furrier — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:12:11 -0000

Thanks Fred what's more impressive is the feeding frenzy the open data is to developers. If you guys keep in jamming and keep it friendly to us entrepreneurs - twitter will continue to soar higher. Oh yeah being plugged on TV help push the default positioning that you mentioned. Watching CNN, to ESPN say follow us on twitter reminds me when I first saw a URL on TV. I think you guys are all ready there. Congrats.

Re: Open Platforms and Innovation

John Furrier — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:57:32 -0000

This actually was a good story by MSM on this one. All very good points. I had an interesting thread the day before this on my FB page then on my blog with more 'inside baseball' views on what twitter is from a platform.

http://www.siliconangle.com/ver2/?p=5380

Initiated by a John Hagel from Edge Perspective in a recent status update on FB.

Congrats Fred to you and twitter team!

Re: RSS Is Alive And Well

John Furrier — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:40:30 -0000

Fred,
Please don't generalize about the tech blogosphere like you did. I (and my blog siliconANGLE.com) think RSS is alive and "enabling". Sensational headines drive pageviews.

If there is a conversation to be had it would be that "the lack of advertising products is killing quality publishing". That's a much better conversation to have because it advances innovation rather than distracting post about something not even an issue (the RSS is dead issue - is non starter).

Re: RSS Is Alive And Well

John Furrier — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:55:50 -0000

thanks Fred glad you liked my tongue in cheek comment :-) no real complaint.

Now that you brought up the word "leading tech blogs" - I would rephrase it as saying "leading tech blog in traffic" .

What does "leading" mean? Many tech blog with different levels of traffic "lead" in different ways. Quality is in the eye of the beholder.

Re: RSS Is Alive And Well

John Furrier — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 11:01:11 -0000

Hey Fred: I have to say that I really have been enjoying this thread. That being said time is a wonderful thing. In this age of attention verses substance (tech blogophere) here is a post I wrote three years ago.
http://podtech.wordpress.com/2006/09/01/rss-is-...

There were actual conversations of substance in the tech blogosphere then and still now.

Back in Sept 2006 the debate was is web 2.0 hype or real?: In which I wrote the post RSS is Web 2.0

Here is some excerpts from 9/1 2006:
"Web 2.0 is hyped and it is just as real as Web 1.0 but now it’s more than the Web now – it’s the Internet 2.0. Web 2.0 is similar to Web 1.0 with bubble tendencies and all. The key is the longevity that we will see with RSS. RSS is Web 2.0. "

My final point aligns with most of the sentiment in this post here in 2009.

I went on to say that "Disrputive enabler in any revolution is always rooted in a protocol. TCP/IP, HTTP, and RSS. TCP/IP gave us computing, networking, and Moores Law; HTTP gave us unlimited information access and browsing, and RSS is giving us access to all kinds of new benefits most of which will be born in the next 24 months – new media, personalization, access to new relationships, knowledge, inspiration, user choice, attention models, virtual spaces – second lives , virtual conferences ..etc

RSS is Web 2.0 just like HTTP was Web 1.0. "

Ok I'm done patting myself on the back. Fact is there are conversations like this happening all the time from people on the web, but most of the time quality people and content are washed out by the noise of the current attention network (blogosphere and twittershere).

This post got my attention and the experience was valuable.

Re: bijansabet.com | a tumblelog by Bijan Sabet | Police & Thieves - The Clash I woke up early this...

John Furrier — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:56:42 -0000

Saw the clash in 1982 for their combat rock tour at the cape cod arena.. love this song.. I was talking to someone at web20 expo yesterday that this song represents the current blogosphere - good mix of police and thieves

Re: Startup2Startup: Are You A First Time Entrepreneur Looking For A Dinner And Good Conversation?

John Furrier — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:47:28 -0000

Young entrepreneurial talent? What is the cut off :-)

Re: My Chumby is here (Scripting News)

John Furrier — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 10:12:27 -0000

Steve,
I really like you're chumby product

Re: Creating a maintainable and thriving web (Scripting News)

John Furrier — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:26:30 -0000

This is what I posted on Fred's comments: "great post Fred. sites like Techcrunch don't qualify as a blog any more ..it's a webzine with trackbacks and comments. Techmeme is great but like it's early days it isn't a conversation anymore... it's writers working hard to bump their way to the top of the noice mountain... i would like to see the 'real' conversations. The NYTimes and CNet don't have conversations - they may start them but they don't participate. What I have always like about bloggers is their unique voice and the participation... the best of the bloggers talk with their audience ..."

Dave: a key point in Fred's post is the fact that TC et al hire a "team" of bloggers. I agree with you this isn't blogging. It's a media business.

I will start blogging again but I will never hire a team like TC and GigaOm - why? the writers to work with are already out there - they are bloggers themselves - the "team" consists of all bloggers... Mark Evans is right we need to celebrate the individual blogger...

Techmeme is turning into a "noice mountain"... the content developers are turning out "noice" because "noice" is rewarded. Yell the loudest and you'll climb on the techmeme leaderboard.

We need more signal less noice..

Re: Creating a maintainable and thriving web (Scripting News)

John Furrier — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:40:22 -0000

you are always protyping the future Robert.. you are an individual blogger who works like a media company yet you don't pay for the content ...it's just there..you're link blog is a media company :-) keep on blogging

Re: The debate about the worth of podcasting (Scripting News)

John Furrier — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:01:48 -0000

don't see your point on the podcast debate - jury is out: it is already successful; the monetization isn't there yet. your porches business model is meeting people and maybe eating lunch or a snack - so is August Capital but Mike Arrington can have a party on their porch and make money- success.

Gizmodo stunt: pranks are funny but representing a publication makes them jerks-offs. No one is talking about your point about branded publications and blogs..there is difference... the key point is the unedited voice - nice gems buried in there dave..get back to coding...

Re: Out on the UGC limb (Scripting News)

John Furrier — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:08:15 -0000

what do you mean by this comment? "we could and should be cutting more fair deals with the people who create the value on the net, and we're not doing it. "

I think Mahalo is being challenged everyday and they work on their product value proposition to meet those challenges...if not then Jason will be just a promoter not an entrepreneur. If the product sucks it won't get traction. Jason seems to be working hard on the product. Being compared to wikipedia isn't a bad thing and I don't think Jason is running away from that. However being venture backed comparing yourselft to Google helps increase your valuation...

btw: i'm working on the next google too. :-)

Re: Tennessee Rex (Scripting News)

John Furrier — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:57:33 -0000

Dave,
Techcrunch isn't a blog anymore. I read your comment on techcrunch. IMHO Mike chose to be a branded publisher not an real entrepreneur. Well I guess that you can call him a media entrepreneur. He is making good money and should be recognized for that. He is doing a good job in the trade publication business. However Ben Rosen helped build an industry. Apples to oranges comparision. For example Mike doesn't partner or have the same view as same a Ben Rosen. Branded publishers are cut throat competitors. Mike has proven that he is that. That's his path. He is like IDG or CMP not Ben Rosen.

You have to give credit to Mike that he is making money.

You're so right. The real opportunity is to arbitrage the market paradigm shift. Tons of opportunities.

Re: Valleywag got a legit story, Mike (Scripting News)

John Furrier — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:46:59 -0000

Great point Dave about the only thing to do is let the market figure it out by launching competing sites. If Valleywag has that many uniques as they claim then that should attract entrants.

I am certainly not a big fan of Valleywag because not only was the stories false but when they attacked me personally they never called or investigated. Did it matter to me no because at least they spelled my name properly :-)

It's three 'R"s in Furrier

Re: Who should I interview next? (Scripting News)

John Furrier — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:57:34 -0000

Great to see you podcasting again. This is better than the old morning coffee notes in terms of quality and topics. Excellent.

I love the infotalk format of 15-20mins.. keep them coming

Re: Proof that the end is near (Scripting News)

John Furrier — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:02:06 -0000

It sounds like the blogosphere is becoming a joke.

I blog for comments to other stories and for my original thoughts. I post only orginal thoughts and opinions. Blogging and now twittering is about sharing ideas and collaborating imho. Posting original ideas, comments, and opinions is the only way to get a connection...

One thing about being a visionary is that I can see these things coming a mile away - this kind of splintering or cival unrest in the blogosphere has been brewing for sometime. It's a symptom of the leadership in the blogosphere which Dave you are one of.

http://furrier.org/2007/12/18/why-i-like-dave-w...

Re: Proof that the end is near (Scripting News)

John Furrier — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:01:54 -0000

I'm not disagreeing with you on this one dave but merely pointing out how you can be more active than one post. I find myself looking at both the political techmeme and ballbug for stories but more and more twitter is becoming a signaling system for my 'navigation or attention'.

I remember when you 'over linked' to techcrunch everyday when it formed and promoted their initial flow - so why don't you do the same for someone else. Some people are saying that sites like Techcrunch prefer to lead with a sword verses collaboration and that is leading to blogwars and ill will.

Re: Early notes on GoogleApps (Scripting News)

John Furrier — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:36:30 -0000

Dave: great assessment but to move forward your analogy is to think about interoperability among apps once they scale past the limit of AppEngine. The open question in my mind is how they will port the scale question once someone writes a great app that supercedes the limit on Google.

Basic and Pascal worked great for primative apps so i'm not to sure how python will work in today's not so primative web services world. Sure in Google's part of the stack it's primative but underneath Google it's far from primative - that's the assembly code metaphor - Enter the network layer - hello Cisco.

Re: Silicon Valley as second grade (Scripting News)

John Furrier — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:27:12 -0000

but the people who say they're friends who don't offer support.... how telling is that line dave.

I agree that it's funny how no one will come to Shel's defense... what are they afraid of? It's the silicon valley way... avoid anything that is negative because half the valley is hype... people are competing for signal and don't want to be associated with the noise. I like Loren and I like Shel.

In silicon valley you're only as good as your last thing that you did.. for shel it's this mess. he needs to move on and put a new stake in the ground - be know for being what silicon valley admires- a fighter a survivor, a player...

Re: Why it's time to break out of Twitter (Scripting News)

John Furrier — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:15:13 -0000

Twitter should show some love to my new blog SiliconAngle.com of which I'm donating all the proceeds back into the community of writers and contributors and eventually to the users.

I would be curious to see if Twitter would show me some love and get a site that is self funded by the community up on the list with as you say "flow".

Re: Peer-producing a for-profit startup.

John Furrier — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:22:26 -0000

Excellent approach and I have been working a peer production model on my new blog SiliconAngle.com - very innovative and productive. The quality of the content and the community is amazing. I expect to see this concept gain ground very fast. Lets keep in touch and would love to collaborate with your work that comes out of your venture commons.

Re: AdaptiveBlue Annouces Series B

John Furrier — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:47:52 -0000

Congrats Alex. Big milestone and well deserved. I wish you continued success. I will try Glue

Best
John

Re: The Great Blog Weeding of 2008

John Furrier — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:16:16 -0000

Interesting just as I'm starting to add advertising sponsorshp to my blog.. I think that it won't be weeding out but repositioning of the value is for blogging. If advertsiing is the sunlight then yes CPM based ads are nuclear winter... the sun is a new add model not CPM based..

My ads coming on my blog are not cpm based..

Re: Hey, Steve — you broke the Internet

John Furrier — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:21:23 -0000

Web 2.0 is breaking...is this the beginning of the bubble pop..is cnn, nytime, cnbc laughing at us??

the tail can wag the dog! soon...

Re: Hey, Steve — you broke the Internet

John Furrier — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:22:07 -0000

forgot my link

http://furrier.org/2008/01/15/steve-jobs-silenc...

Re: When the cat’s away, the mice…

John Furrier — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:26:23 -0000

Matthew,
The issue about startups is that they have to be careful not to be colateral damage. I think that if done right a startup can be a service provider during this tech war. I've seen it in 96-99. On the other side of the coin startups have to be careful about not having the titan take their idea and quickly emulate it. Now more then ever the ability to have weapons is the key for the titans. As Marc says they are "armored up". Memo to startups..build those weapons - it's a war time venture.

John
http://furrier.org

Re: PR industry: Still grasping for a clue

John Furrier — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:25:11 -0000

Social media needs to be social...putting links is is key but that ain't the end game...

I have a big opinion on this puppy - almost all social media fails because PR isn't funding in their companies to do it right. Links is the minimum starting point. To do is right is like building a rocket ;-) A marketing rocket

http://furrier.org/2008/04/11/social-media-rele...

Re: Jason’s long goodbye: Give me a break

John Furrier — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:58:58 -0000

Dave Winer pulled the same stunt. Never retired. Publicity stunt. Jason is entertaining for sure.

Re: Personal note: A job change for yours truly

John Furrier — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:43:27 -0000

Totally support your efforts Mathew. Your blog wasn't just content but a Fresh Voice!

Let the link love begin.. you've got mine!

I'll be watching and collaborating on the new voices that can come from the new community that you build.

Big Congrats!

Re: New poll: Should Microsoft acquire Facebook?

John Furrier — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:40:40 -0000

FSJ: of course he should sell then my post will have come true.. if they plop $25b on the table - he has to sell - it's his only IPO - the IPO market is dark for at least 5 years

http://furrier.org/2008/05/19/facebook-ipo-micr...

Can MZ be extraordinary?? here's my memo

http://furrier.org/2008/05/19/facebook-ipo-micr...

Re: I am so friggin high it's not funny

John Furrier — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:39:07 -0000

FSJ will go down in history as a journalist milestone in this new era of whatever we call it these days... social media or ...... kudos for having the brass b**ls to pull it off.

Good Night and Good Luck

Re: Twitter Files for an IPO….‘TWEET’ as the Ticker Symbol?

John Furrier — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:47:58 -0000

Great but please post another followup tomorrow when the drugs wears off

Re: Welcome to the Land of Irrationality

John Furrier — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:26:26 -0000

I'm with you on the valuation but if Msft was willing to poney up 41 billion to get yahoo they might be willing to grab the yahoo search and facebook for a price in that range.

Microsoft is crunching the spreadsheets and SIA had a post that Google's search revenue will soon surpass the revenues in the bellweather monopoly windows franchise..Microsoft has to kill Google or reduce their position in the market... Facebook is a pawn..an expensive pawn

Re: VentureBeat raises $320,000 seed round, traffic growing

John Furrier — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:18:12 -0000

Congrats Matt. Creating original content is difficult. Being a one man band running around the valley is different than building a multiperson editorial organization. Building a company from scratch is difficult - congrats on the milestone.

However costs will be increasing and you will need to scale your revenues.

I have to admit that I've stop reading your site because others sites have been faster and deeper with the news. Having a team will help bring back your mojo again.

Can't wait to see the scaling.

btw: the traffic question regarding alexa and compete always comes up when everyone knows how inaccurate those tools are.

Re: Powder keg or conjecture? Microsoft buying Facebook could start Internet War I

John Furrier — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:41:05 -0000

Hey MG,
I write alot of ideas on my blog and most of them become reality but when I post rumors they are more than ideas - all of them materialized into fact. We'll see on this one.

As you know it's knowing the players and what they say and don't say then watching their actions. This story wasn't made up it came from very credible sources and some detective work on my end. I don't report on speculation but when I see missiles being fired in my backyard of Palo Alto it's clear to me what is going on.

This is a war between Goog and Msft; Here is my observation on Zuck's comments to Reuters

http://furrier.org/2008/05/19/facebook-ceo-resp...

Re: Powder keg or conjecture? Microsoft buying Facebook could start Internet War I

John Furrier — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:17:06 -0000

MG commenting on your post imspired a quick analysis that I was mulling over..thanks for shaking it loose for me.

Facebooks IPO is MSFT - the lack of an IPO market makes this a save 'FACE' for Facebook

http://furrier.org/2008/05/19/facebook-ipo-micr...

Re: Google launches Gmail Labs tonight

John Furrier — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:54:49 -0000

You should have been invited. What were they thinking. Keep up the great blogging.

Oh I wasn't invited either. :-)

Re: Startup2Startup: Dinners for new entrepreneurs, like what they did back in the old days

John Furrier — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:58:36 -0000

Great idea to pull this off.

Re: Chad Hurley’s 2018: Video wristwatches for all

John Furrier — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:19:34 -0000

MG: nice point to add on the white space (spectrum) angle. If the gov't doesn't screw it up the oppty for a real broadband wireless network might be a possibility.

The future of video is not a debate but I'd say what are the roadblocks and what are those enabling technologies to make it a reality fast... that's a conversation worth having... one Google should be leading

Re: T-Mobile Android phone to hit stores on Oct 17, Sprint Android phone coming next year

John Furrier — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:32:41 -0000

great reporting.. you guys have been on top of android from the beginning.. keep it rolling..

Re: The VC model is broken

John Furrier — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:31:16 -0000

The only thing broken about VCs is the lack of liquidity which causes the junior VCs to freak out when ventures don't go the way that they "think".

Dave: You forgot to mention True Ventures who are doing quite well and actively investing.

I predict that you'll see some reform in VC in form of a new kind of firm around some of the capabilities that Dave talks about. In general the capital markets (which the VCs are) are a good thing. No liquidity is a bad thing and has a 'trickle down' effect.

Re: Facebook delays employee stock sale, citing recession

John Furrier — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:37:48 -0000

can't we just have a private silicon valley offering going on... and forget liquity on the open markets

Re: Local yogurt store tells Scoble that Steve Jobs is “in great health”

John Furrier — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:25:34 -0000

I just saw Steve Jobs. I'm blogging from his house right now. Ok i'm in his driveway.

Re: louisgray.com: To Blog, or Not to Blog - That is the Question

John Furrier — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:30:17 -0000

I agree with most of your points but would add that posting about someone elses post makes sense to share the comment and link to the audience. Disqus is a bit distracting but important to share on the site where a comment is relevant. For example I would leave this comment here but would post an expanded thought on my blog with a link (in that case a full on blog post would be ok).

nice job Louis

Re: Facebook Bans Google Friend Connect

John Furrier — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:24:43 -0000

You have the right read on the 'press their competitive advantage" - but i'd submit to you that they don't have that yet. In fact Facebook came across like Netscape not Microsoft. Facebook thinks they have sustainability in their platform - not yet. It's a false sense of security on their part. They aren't at the Microsoft levels of leverage yet. In their mind they are but not in competitive strategy.

It's Google who has the leverage not Facebook.

Here's my post

http://furrier.org/2008/05/15/facebook-just-pul...

Re: Almost Viral: A Hybrid Acquisition Strategy

John Furrier — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:42:39 -0000

Love this post...This is "social media porn"

Re: rizzn's personal blog: I’m Back Online [Thank God]

John Furrier — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:28:19 -0000

congrats on your move

Re: rizzn's socnets: Podango Shutters: What’s the Industry Effect?

John Furrier — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:59:41 -0000

Podango was a good opportunity but caught in financial times. I'm sure someone will make a bid for the assets. Someone should put together some funds and roll up all the remaining players so that there can be some form of cohesive industry. The potential is there but with all the companies too thin right now the industry is falling apart. I hope it can thrive.

Re: studio.rizzn == new.media: /blog: Texas Coworking Space Roundup

John Furrier — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:43:35 -0000

This is the future of collaboration and entrepreneurship. As you know from our work at SA Labs :-)

Re: Techmeme listens: 32 months in the making, search arrives! - Techmeme News

John Furrier — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:31:10 -0000

great job gabe...

Re: Guess what? Automated news doesn't quite work. - Techmeme News

John Furrier — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:31:58 -0000

I remember Megan I think that she worked at Techcrunch...or AllThingsD...was it GigaOm... ok it was Venturebeat...no it was ...

I got it ...she was the founder of PodTech...Bingo

Re: Guess what? Automated news doesn't quite work. - Techmeme News

John Furrier — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:41:19 -0000

Seriously congrats Megan. With a name like McCarthy you're good in my book. See you around

Re: "Follow the law" computing

John Furrier — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:37:25 -0000

sweet post... the geo issue is going to be a nightmare but it will be solved and circumvented by technology around domicile issue of servers. To me any gov't intervention will be rerouted by innovation and entrepreneurial 'tech savvy'. I'm sure it will 'cloud' the issue.

Re: http://blog.jamesurquhart.com/2008/11/in-cloud-computing-good-network-gives.html

John Furrier — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:58:13 -0000

Great Post James! We have been talking about it over at Broadband Developments as well. www.BroadDev.com

I'd love to at some point do a podcast with you. A small group is forming who are sheding some very bright light and big voice on this topic. ping me anytime at johnfurrier at gmail dot com

I'll link to this later today

Re: The new cool – Facebook parents

John Furrier — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:56:45 -0000

Duncan great post you are right on. Facebook is the new norm

Re: How to lose friends and anger people the TechCrunch way

John Furrier — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:40:35 -0000

Duncan: Very well said Duncan. I've known Chris Shipley for over 10yrs. She is a class act but more importantly she (personally) and DEMO has stood the test of time. She is a quality person who deserves to be recognized for her work and integrity over the years and during this process. This isn't about competition because Chris has shown that she can compete.

I will speak to her soon but I wonder if she was forced out. IDG runs the show at the business level. I wonder how much that came into it or is Chris tired of the BS and hate.

Matt Marshal who has a mixed reputation in the valley, should do a good job.

Re: Former Podtech CEO John Furrier launches Silicon Angle

John Furrier — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:19:01 -0000

Hey Duncan,
Thanks for the mention. You know quality. I'll be linking to your content often. The blogosphere is interesting these days

Re: Twitter Chairman confirms turning down $500 million Facebook offer

John Furrier — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:59:47 -0000

this is nice reporting

Re: Another Twitter client to give Seesmic & Tweetdeck a run

John Furrier — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:56:07 -0000

Nice job Steve on this post. There is an oppty for someone to really create a great app rather than a recycled POS tweatdeck app.. I love tweatdeck but it still is so early it could do more

Re: Twitter, Social Media and the revolution in Iran

John Furrier — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:22:09 -0000

Great post Steven. It's great to see the value of twitter be realized by many. Hopefully this will keep the naysayers against twitter at bay.

Twitter is important and this is a great example

Re: Search is broken – really broken.

John Furrier — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:19:14 -0000

Just found this post after friending you on twitter. Totally right on. Search is so broken and I mean so 1999-2001.

If you look at user behavior in the terms of "discovery and navigation" across today's apps then the notion of just an index seems silly

Re: Search is broken – really broken.

John Furrier — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:20:27 -0000

I would add for more on how f'd up search is my personal blog has a ton of opinion posts on it re: the future of search www.furrier.org

Re: Startup Failures On The Rise

John Furrier — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:52:59 -0000

expect that number to go up big time.. all startups and VCs should read this post

http://tinyurl.com/6zsaz7

Allways be selling - some VCs who sit on boards that don't have any sales or marketing experience should be removed. I know of a few VCs (one in particular ) who claim to operational gurus but the only way to help a startup in this environment is to drive the top line.

You can only manage the bottom line for so long - drive the top line and you drive to success...

Entrepreneurs: if your VC can't grok the sales process then start thinking shut down

Re: Entrepreneurs on Twitter

John Furrier — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:40:42 -0000

@furrier

wondering how you put this list together? how can someone be an entrepreneur if they have never started or ran a company?

How are you defining "entrepreneur"? maybe this list is best categorized as entrepreneurship.

Great start but very inaccurate

Re: Entrepreneurs on Twitter

John Furrier — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:36:22 -0000

I wasn't being overly critical because I like what you're doing.. lists drive people crazy when it's positioned as an authorative list.. maybe you should word it entrepreneurs that you follow.

On the accuracy point I leave it at this ..there is distinction between being an entrepreneur and being entrepreneurial.

add me to the list - founded a few in my day and doing a few now

http://twitter.com/Furrier

btw: one way to get the entrepreneurs is to do some scraping of the profile descriptions with a crawler..

Re: Some thoughts from the Social Media Breakfast Boston

John Furrier — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:31:48 -0000

boy I wish that I could have been there...Love Boston in the Summertime..

Go Sox

Re: Some Random Thoughts on “Sponsored Blogging”

John Furrier — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:33:32 -0000

Hey I'm all for clearing up the noise with signal and quality that is why I started SiliconAngle.com group blog of experts. It is precisely for this reason. To have detailed conversations with pros. Keep this conversation going it's important and relevant.

For me the issue is "You can't regulate what you don't understand."

The bigger picture is that legit publishers need to monetize their offerings in some way and google adsense isn't cutting it.. a new standard has to show up. Everyone can't go out of business (including the newspapers and quality online publishers).

The other issue is understanding the difference between a reporting organization and a community. Both have reporting capability but they are mutually exclusive in terms of their methods of publishing but not in their quality. Communities of peers and colleagues (like my new blog SiliconAngle) can provide high quality analysis and opinion and in some cases news but we are not a news organization per se.

I see two standards emerging as prototypes online: 1) All Things D - professional reporting of news first with analysis and opinion second; more general ; and 2) SiliconAngle.com - a community that provides professional opinion, analysis first, and news second; more specialized.

Your thoughts?

Re: How Questionable is Social Media Monetization?

John Furrier — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:05:19 -0000

the answer is targeted high value audiences... get that and the ad stuff is easy.

Re: Robert Scoble’s $45 Billion Website

John Furrier — Mon, 19 May 2008 10:49:03 -0000

Nick: source of the story is here. Robert and Kara both credited the original source. Over the past three months I've posted at least 4 exclusive scoops that all have developed into big stories. It's interesting to see who credits it.

http://furrier.org/2008/05/19/silicon-valley-ru...

Re: Are Facebook’s Design Intentions Misguided?

John Furrier — Wed, 21 May 2008 12:09:03 -0000

Nick: how can i get access to the press briefing today in palo alto. is there a sign up sheet?

Re: Facebook Leaves More Questions Than Answers

John Furrier — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:16:22 -0000

facebook has a clutter problems...i would focus the engineering and product group on developing a relevance algorithm to filter apps for users.. installing them is easy creating clutter is easy but both contribute to irrelevance.

facebook needs to be relevant to users.. they need to be think like a search vendor..user experience and discovery = utilty; utility = revenue

there it is facebook - get to work

Re: 2008/08/04/social-media-jobs/

John Furrier — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:01:03 -0000

Great post Ben. The problem isn't if social media is here to stay, but no one really knows what social media is?

If fact look around and ask yourself who really knows what social media is? What is it that people are selling in social media? The answers to those questions are very telling.

Re: #FollowFriday: The Anatomy of a Twitter Trend

John Furrier — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:18:24 -0000

Did you really start this off with that tweat? Fantastic! Kudos Micah. This is what twitter is all about.

The Future is Unwritten - anything is possible :-)

I'm calling it happy hour Friday on Twitter - take a break on Friday for an hour and share who you endorse on twitter using #followfriday

great job

Re: Social Media Hub: Boston

John Furrier — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:56:10 -0000

Beantown has been my home for many years..Miss it a ton. I can't believe it's been almost 10 yrs in Palo Alto California. All those names are the Boston pioneers in social media. All solid people.

See ya this summer when I go to my summer house in Hull, Ma -

Hey Boston Peeps: Is there any summer events that I can plan my trip around??

Re: Events Often Overtake Companies

John Furrier — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:11:01 -0000

Really good post Fred. The biggest thing entrepreneurs need to be mindful is the long term prospects and that iterating is not bad. Sometimes iterating looks like changing strategies. Changing strategically is ok as long as it deosn't foreclose the big idea. Completely rehauling is another issue because of the diseconomies of scale - just look at companies like Slide - very ineffective due to rehauling way to many times.

One other venture point for entrepreneurs to be mindful - make sure your board members absolutely understand this concept that Fred is talking about because if you have board members who don't - you will be doomed. In my experience good entrepreneurs can both listen to the market and sell customers.

Nice points Fred.

Re: Free Agency Sucks, unless you are in the NFL

John Furrier — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:32:17 -0000

Don't take any steriods like A-ROD

Re: Twitter Changes Everything

John Furrier — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:58:48 -0000

Great post REX. Twitter is a Black Swan!

Re: Wrap Up From the siliconANGLE

John Furrier — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 06:47:05 -0000

Rex,
Great job in posting and Angling on those stories. I have some great content from Europe and people who want to share their "angle". Europe is buzzing with startups and talent. Can't wait to share the stories from Europe.

Re: the Hulu situation

John Furrier — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:19:13 -0000

This is a big failure for Hulu. Jason basically said that in his post. I'm sorry.

missed opportunity for them

Re: danieltenner.com — Starting up with a friend

John Furrier — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:08:02 -0000

Excellent for you to share the scar tissue with other entrepreneurs. Kudos. You're welcome to post anytime on my site. Props to you!

Re: ADVERTISING and SPONSORSHIP POLICY

John Furrier — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:24:46 -0000

Ken,
Just fixed it. Thanks for commenting

Re: Kids On Facebook - Facebook Briefs Parents in Palo Alto: Where does Facebook Fit Into Parenting

John Furrier — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:03:31 -0000

Congrats Linda on your first blog post!

It's a great summary and opinion.

Re: Confirmed Twitter Turned Down 1/2 Billion Dollars From Facebook

John Furrier — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:23:35 -0000

Brandon: I know the details and think that the financial engineering of valuations got in the way of a solid deal for both companies.. i.e. all the legal bitching about how much each is worth in the future.

I'm bullish on twitter always have been but one scenario is a possibility and that is that Twitter is just a fad. Facebook is not they have 'crossed over' to the mainstream. I'm in London right now overhearing regular people talking about Facebook in reference to their normal life. You can't say the same for Twitter yet. Outside of their TV cross promotion now one knows what twitter is.

So it's a real possibility that Twitter might be too cocky like Pointcast was in Web 1.0. Validation on that is proven by the step up in financing to basically ensure a "runway" for many years and also to set the "peg" for valuation on a buy out. - actually a very smart move by the investors and twitter. However if the market plummets then that strategy might backfire.

Again I'm optimistic on Twitter and love the product an the community there.

Just keeping it real.

Re: Flipside: John Battelle Says Google Needs Twitter

John Furrier — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:50:01 -0000

John Battelle writes a good post about the relation to YouTube. I agree with John on this one. I've been saying for some time that monetization doesn't matter because if they get the critical mass then it will either sell (most likely) or figure out a revenue model that leverages the audience. Twitter is smart not to worry because they have a war chest of cash so as the saying goes "you can't go out of business with money in the bank".. The issue for twitter is to be relevant and continue to innovate on the user experience side .. John B talks about that real time conversational piece.

Nice post Mark. My Angle is that twitter needs to get to at least 20m active per day to be the huge hit. If I were Google or Yahoo I'd have a clone up and running immediately.. then position Twitter as a cult of early adopters.

Re: Panther Express and CDNetworks Merger

John Furrier — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:14:47 -0000

consolidation is coming on the CDNs

Re: Flipside: John Battelle Says Google Needs Twitter

John Furrier — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:28:45 -0000

HipMoJo doesn't think Twitter is all that it's cracked up to be.. He has a good Angle on this trend and a good view into YouTube

read more here on his blog

http://watchmojo.com/web/blog/index.php/2009/02...

Re: Facebook Decides To Be A Commune

John Furrier — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:00:47 -0000

Hey Scot,
I totally know what fb was trying to do but they shot themselves in the foot with the POS TOS. I'm in London and the people here think that FB is trying to own the data. Some lawyer developed those POS TOS and didn't think about the market implications. Right now Facebook has a *huge* black eye at least that is what a owner of one of the biggest agencies in London told me last night.

Facebook needs to realize that their is a world outside of Palo Alto. The TOS snafu was a marketing blunder of epic proportions.

All facebook needs is a license so some nutcase doesn't come out of the woodwork and files a lawsuit. Again FB needs the license but the way they did it was a major screwup.

Facebook is backpedling and eating crow. It's sad and was avoidable.

I really think that FB is trying to do the right thing but missed it in the execution.

Re: Yahoo Re-Org Round-Up

John Furrier — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:40:36 -0000

Kara Swisher brings up a good point about the culture that Yahoo is building. Will Carol be a open transparent person (like blogging) or a command and control.

Me I'm confused we see the love in the open posture with the blog post and all but then the "I will kill anyone leaking to the press" and then slamming the press for doing their job.

Carol: I have some advice for you in dealing with press and blogger relations - someone said once "embrace and extend"..

embrace the real time blogosphere, presshrere, twittershere, whateershpere...

Re: DEMO 09 Class of Demonstrators!

John Furrier — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:48:05 -0000

Hey Marshall
Apparently an embargo was broken. What happened is that I've been posting on DEMO earlier here on siliconANGLE and a reader sent in a pdf of the companies.

Allen Stern notified me right before I went to bed (I was posting from London) that an embargo was in fact in place.

Thanks for calling my class in question. I appreciate that Marshall. I can tell you with certainty that I am under NDA and embargo for about half dozen major stories. Lets be clear the purpose of siliconANGLE is not to break embargos and be anti-collaboration.

Re: It’s Almost Too Late to Save Print Media

John Furrier — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 07:03:27 -0000

Mark,
Great summary and insight. I feel for the people who work in old media but you are correct the problem is institutional. Fact is, old media (newspapers, tv, print) are in the information business plain and simple. The sooner that they realize that the soon a transformation can take place.

It's not about old verse new but instead the approach to harvesting information, understanding it, developing stories, and distribution. A new value chain exists because the preferred user experience is changing faster than ever.

love this video that shows the pace of change in this new "global" world - i'd love to hear from people in old media on what they think

http://www.siliconangle.com/trends/venture-inve...

Re: Definition of the Business Model - Twitter Has a Business Model

John Furrier — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:05:01 -0000

Thanks Adrian put the credit in. Thanks

Re: Boston Startup Scene - Serious "Out-Migration" Already Happened

John Furrier — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:08:50 -0000

Here is a comment thread from the original post.. from a person named Daniel:

I’m a city slicker who can’t imagine living in the suburbs of Silicon Valley, let alone raising my child there, but to each his own. And I’ve been fortunate to be part of a highly successful Boston startup.

Nonetheless, I actually think Paul Graham is right that Silicon Valley has a much stronger startup culture than Boston. However, I think it’s a two-edged sword. My entrepreneur friends in the Valley have told me that the culture there is very impatient and trend-seeking, with many people more interested in looking for the next new thing than finishing the one they started. Perhaps the current economy–which seems to be hitting the Valley especially hard–has tempered that impatience.

While I was PhD student at CMU, I learned about an analysis of markets based on the rate at which the market prices of the industry’s outputs change. The three classes of markets, slow-cycle, standard-cycle, and fast-cycle, offer different pros and cons.

Perhaps because I was the only computer scientist in a business school class–and a theory-addled one at that–I looked at this market ecology as an optimization problem and realized the three classes roughly corresponded to stable local optima.

In short, I suggest we think of the Silicon Valley and Boston scenes as incomparable Pareto-optimal states. It’s silly to ask whether the speed of innovation is more important that the quality of ideas generated. You can’t simultaneously optimize for both.

My response:

Daniel,
Silicon Valley has a similar problem when it comes to growth (post successful early stage) in that Silicon Valley has an "out migration" issue when companies out grow the valley culture - cost of living, talent, space,..etc quite frankly is more attractive in other regions..hello benefits of the web this includes international markets.

That being said for zero and early stage formation and ideation then funding Silicon Valley is the best - QED.

note: i'm seeing austin and colorado as coming on strong in early stage - the investors there are "making the market"

Re: The OPA Wants a Renaissance, They Won’t Get It

John Furrier — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:28:53 -0000

Rob Hof has a great Angle on this in that he's a great reporter and editor plus Businessweek is participating.

http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat...

Fact is when the market tanks new ad models show their head.. paid search made it's big move in 2000. Lets hope this effort will get legitimate publishers and/or new communities like SiliconANGLE.com funded for producing quality content.

Mark you have a good Angle on this on your mention that the big sites aren't building communities. They (the wholesalers) should create affiliate programs with sites like ours to work together.

Like I always said .... "the new content model is a team sport because that is the way the user want it. oh yeah on all platforms in all formats."

Will the big guys reach out to emerging media properties? We'll see.

Re: Breaking News: Google to Release GrandCentral Out of Beta as Google Voice - Hello Google Voice

John Furrier — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:38:40 -0000

no I don't know. This will be announced tomorrow. From what I'm gathering most features will be for free... word on the street has it that google will be doing some disruptive long distance thing with tie-in to actionable content like web links and adwords. What I found interesting is there were screenshots in there of ebay transaction - tying voice to web commerce is a no brainer. Interesting.

Re: Breaking News: Google to Release GrandCentral Out of Beta as Google Voice - Hello Google Voice

John Furrier — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:50:14 -0000

Thanks Tim - I appreciate your comment but have to push back hard on you for trying to label of not having solid sources. No problem here on those screen shots I took from logged in state turns our they are from the public site now showing them.

Just an FYI to you for your future reference I never break news from anonymous sources - some do I don't. I never have.

I used the product and source was not anonymous.

John Furrier

Re: Breaking News: Google to Release GrandCentral Out of Beta as Google Voice - Hello Google Voice

John Furrier — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:45:04 -0000

@alexlewis
On the source thing I just want to keep things real - a known and credible source confirmed this story. The only thing were are saying or reporting is that Google will be launching GrandCentral (like tomorrow). Obviously we were not briefed by the company otherwise we'd have details on the news with our "Angle" on it. Our Angle here is just that news is coming. I do have information on what the news is but am not putting it up there because that data is suspect. What is not suspect is the fact that Google is launching Grandcentral.

Integrating voice into web services like search results and gmail and so on is interesting. Making it non-linear in the sense of timeshifting and device shifting is cool as well.

I agree the traditional definition of UC would puke on this but what is the 'real' definition of UC and collaboration. At voicecon we saw a ton of cool stuff and you're doing a lot of work on big projects..is the web the anti-UC environment or are their two versions of UC? How do you think the UC vendors like Cisco and IBM would view this?

You bring up an interesting point about Skype because If I were Google I'd take Skype off of ebay's hands now. That's a conversation worth exploring.

John

Re: Breaking News: Google to Release GrandCentral Out of Beta as Google Voice - Hello Google Voice

John Furrier — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:09:46 -0000

@alexlewis nice angle on your Google comment on the thinness or partial voice story for Google .. then again thin might be in.

Google Docs is no competitor to word but compelling to some degree - the geek niche maybe or younger demographics..

Re: Breaking News: Google to Release GrandCentral Out of Beta as Google Voice - Hello Google Voice

John Furrier — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:39:57 -0000

Thanks Ethan facetious tone is ok for us because we are a open community trying to spark conversations. We'll leave the NYTimes to do the old school reporting.

SiliconAngle is a place for peers and colleagues to hang out and get the "Angle" on things.

All the profits go back into the site and community. I guess that's an announcement of sorts.

Re: Skype Goes SIP Tapping PBX Functionality to Bridge Old School and New School

John Furrier — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:58:21 -0000

This could be a Unified Communications game changer. Skype is looking like they are breaking out of the Ebay shadow every day. I love Skype and their product.

Re: Quote of the day

John Furrier — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:23:43 -0000

Lara,
great quote. Andy Kessler had a great line on NPR called Zombie banks referring to the bank bailout ... Here with AIG we're seeing the same thing.. Problem is I have life insurance with AIG so if "I go under" and they are out of business my family gets nothing... how's that work?

This entire thing freaks me out.

Re: asdf

John Furrier — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:35:15 -0000

I spoke to a corporate marketing guy yesterday about supporting this site and he he asked was "What is your traffic"... I wanted to tell him that we are new, but the real audience is in the millions because people we talk with have audiences and topics are intergrated and the collaboration flows through all social graphs.

For example: Mike Arrington comments or amplifies or Robert Scoble or Nick..etc - we are sharing our social graphs and social capital - we are sharing our audiences. That is what the users expect. Twitter and Friendfeed and Facebook only amplify this concept.

So by that standard SiliconAngle has millions of users as it's audience - the reality is that the collaboration and conversations determine how much the audience is.

I've said many times blogging and social media is a team sport. Users want this and the folks who share their social graphs will retain users and get new ones.

Re: First Look: Skype First Ever TV Ads Coming - Preview on YouTube

John Furrier — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:23:35 -0000

Skype is growing fast and has since it's founding. Free service that works great is what makes that work.

>400 million users and they are adding over 350k new users per day.

Re: Twitter Affirms Paid Accounts Coming

John Furrier — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:54:02 -0000

My Angle: I think that splintering the community might be risky. Instead they should continue to focus on the developer community to ensure solid apps take advantage of their core asset - the platform. I think the Pro account is "tripping on dollars to pick up pennies".

I wouldn't do that if I were twitter - nail the platform first then focus on the app side directly through clever products and indirectly through the fast growing developer community.

Re: Confirmed: Skype Changes the Game and Releases the iPhone App

John Furrier — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:22:40 -0000

Jim Courtney of Skype Journal has been following the Skype story since I first met him CES 2007 (yes that was the BlogHaus year), and it was clear that Skype has been busy getting on all the platforms.

Skype is everywhere now: Skype on MSFT, Skype on Android, Skype on Nokia, now Skype on Apple. – As Mark pointed out in the post it speaks volumes on Skype's execution.

Jim pointed this out early in 2007 and Scott and team have delivered on their promises going back to CES 2007. -- http://skypejournal.com/blog/2007/01/ces_skype_...

What will be interesting to watch is how fast new features will come out like camera/video, and other integrated apps.

Re: This Digital Life: The State of the Modern Digital Nomad

John Furrier — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:02:04 -0000

Mark: Nice post. Very thought provoking. Virtual space (the web and the social web) is taking down the barriers for collaboration. The reason behind the formation of SiliconAngle.com is precisely this reason. Virtual voices, ideas, opinion, and analysis drive 'like minds' to cluster around conversations no matter where the people are located. Quality breeds collaboration.. interaction breeds truse...trust breed personal chemistry...chemistry breed even high quality. Once this is established face to face communication and interaction is key. I can't wait to meet you at an upcoming event.

Bring on the digital nomad but bring on quality ideas and collaboration!

Re: Killing RSS and The Music Biz

John Furrier — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:03:37 -0000

Jeff knows what he is talking about on this. My angle is Yes and No. Twitter is killing the clumsy user interface of RSS and bringing in a personal element to real time. RSS is fantastic protocol for syndication and won't die in that regard. What we will see is the emergence of Pub - Sub real time capabilities "under the wire" to enhance and enable new user benefits such as apps and new "agent" technologies.

Can't wait to share some of the things we are doing in the R&D lab at Silicon Angle (Silicon Angle Labs)

Re: Firing of Facebook’s CFO Gideon Yu - Brutal Work Conditions or Culture? Both

John Furrier — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:18:57 -0000

I have to admin that I'm a Facebook fan boy. I don't think Mark Zuckerberg should resign at all. Great companies have great leaders (some very young). I'm sure guys like Bill Gates were tough as well. In my opinion I question the culture. What I'm digging into now to followup is whether this is a Zuch (FB) or Silicon Valley culture issue. More on that later.

I was saying to someone last night at Web 2.0 expo was "would Microsoft been successful in the valley in its' day"? Silicon Valley has this "Adult Supervision" mentality which obviously bother me. I'm a big believer in keeping the founder around and have said so many times.
http://furrier.org/2008/05/23/why-startups-fail...

Founder drive the opportunities. It's easier to do a executive search for a good CFO but harder to find a Zuck replacement. I approve Zuck staying.

On Gideon I'm not sure if it was personal conflict or what I call "meddling" by outside influences. Something made Zuck snap or Gideon snap. That is what will be coming out in the near future. Either way Facebook can't be going through exec talent this fast. I just don't get it. Facebook is an historic opportunity to work on.

Re: http://www.siliconangle.com/ver2/?p=3803

John Furrier — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:40:53 -0000

The post on Cisco that I just posted thanks to the AP :-) talks about how the opportunities for companies are now for big companies. That being said the big companies aren't the only ones retrenching. The startup scene has been brewing strong for 8 months now especially early stage startups. Startups have nimble and have the speed of a revolutionary army and big companies have huge bucks. Everyone in between is either hoping for survival or a fast economic turnaround.

My Angle: expect massive innovation from startups in new emerging markets and exploitation of "whitespaces" or gap in big markers. For big companies expect consolidation among their peers then rolling up those successful startups. What this means: the only exits for investors or startups is through an acquisition market. Brutal but that is the reality. These are the cards we are dealt. Only the strong will survive.

Re: Support @RelevantStudio - Jon Engle Fights for His Work

John Furrier — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:51:47 -0000

No problem Jon. The real time web not only affects the quality of what get curated -something that I've been talking about privately among folks... but the business and personal reputation of people can be fried in seconds without check.

here is a great example - your case. Glad to support it. Here the real time web has an obligation to rally for you and others like you who get targeted by misinformed entities and people.

Quality information is the key to this new real time web. Real time web hurts quality unless vetted and filtered. Our mandate at SA

Re: The New FriendFeed Layout: The Real Time Web

John Furrier — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:55:46 -0000

the real time web is polluting quality and search isn't smart to solve it so current search crawls the crap...oppty for a new search engine

I'm a huge fan of Friendfeed. Sounds like they really turned on the firehose. They have an opportunity to be a new kind of search engine. Not sure if the FF grok that notion of search.

Re: Why Follow Wizzard Media?

John Furrier — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:24:01 -0000

Another company to follow is Volomedia. They are actively developing new technologies around the iPhone and mobile devices plus they have business with top media companies.

I'm curious to what Wizzard has been doing on those two fronts? Also $6m in annual revenue is not something that I'd be showcasing as a major success. $60m now that's a nice revenue number. What has always impressed me about Wizzard was their volume. What's the update on that asset or is that a liability?

Re: Twitter : Who’s NEXT?

John Furrier — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:52:30 -0000

Twitter is capturing the minds of developers because of the data. Twitter is not a social media answer but instead Twitter is a valuable tool in the social media equation. I love Twitter and think that there is amazing long term value in the platform and the ongoing success.

Twitter should go around and do the "road show" and educate the major players the way the world is now. My angle and advice to Twitter (Ev and Biz) when you do the rounds make sure you avoid the "reach around" or if you get "felt up" you get a "squeeze" in yourself :-)

Re: Breaking News Ebay Taking Skype Out Public in 2010

John Furrier — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:40:54 -0000

Rex,
What I was trying to convey was that we are living in an accelerated user environment where adoption happnes much faster. The stat that I was referring to was the chart in the fortune piece two months ago .. it's a race to the mass market

http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/16/technology/hemp...

It's hard to compare cell phone adoption to facebook granted (I actually remember have those big ass phones and God bless you if you had a Startac :-)

My point is that the numbers are massive and constitue mainstream penetration - Skype has been in the shadows due to being in eBay. 400 million users isn't shabby.

Once a company hits that mass market tipping point it really doesn't matter how they got there or the circumstances imho - Google didn't charge but when they hit their mass market critical mass they converted the audience. Facebook is much farther along than twitter. Twitter is still in infancy stage compared to Facebook.

I would highlight your post by asking FB mgt on what their active user base is daily. That metric is more appropriate than total number of free signups. Nice point.

At the end of the day my angle is that if it's frictionless to get the users they better create stickiness otherwise they could lose those users just as fast as they got them..kinda like a popular nightclub.

Re: European Entrepreneurship and the Skype Spinout

John Furrier — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:30:30 -0000

Ida Rose, one thing that I hear in Europe last month when I was over there was the lack of financing options. The energy was there from a creative entrepreneurial perspective. Add the massive developer community in eastern europe including estonia and iceland - an army of underutilized developers waiting for an upswing... this creates the perfect storm and Skype is the bellweather to lead the effort. It's actually a blessing that the founders didn't get the company back -maybe they will be active with their "grown up baby' and work with new startups more.

Opportunity for EU and entrepreneurship. To me the dark horse is Holland - NL has the incentives for entrepreneurship already in place now they need to handle the in-migration to their country, My prediction: Amsterdam is the next SF and Lieden is the new Silicon Valley in Europe. London will be like NYC.

Re: The Day I Decided to be Evil [URL Shorteners]

John Furrier — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:32:52 -0000

Great Post Mark. The public secret is that URL shortening platforms are the Holy Grail. The alpha tech geeks dismiss the notion on the fact that it's trival to build. Well so are keyword resolvers which turned out to be a billion dollar business. I know I started one of those companies.

URL shortening is a huge deal for data quality and intelligence which in turn provide filtering which in turn provide discovery and navigation.. hmmm sound familiar.

Out of this URL shortening chaos will be a "home run" venture. Right now every is taking a swing at the plate. It's fun to watch.

Re: The Day I Decided to be Evil [URL Shorteners]

John Furrier — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:36:53 -0000

Good conversation. Espen I see your point readable URLs are great for user reading and SEO but space is limiting on Twitter and FB status bar. "Flipping links" is a key value to me on Socnets. As much as I laughed at tinyurl years ago the value has shifted to space contrained areas. I never cared about tinyurl in email but now on twitter working with long urls is a pain in the ass. Especially wordpress blogs who's urls are long as the title (that is keyword'd to the hilt for SEO purposes).

Like your Angle on embedding the shortening for UX purposes and I've noticed that search.twitter.com has the expand button for this reason..

For me the value is clearly in the data - having an abstraction layer of origination data on content source prior to high velocity social graphs distribution is as my son says "hella valuable".

All in all the socnets all need to work on their user experience - for the most part they all still are very weak.

Re: CafePress Changing Their Approach - Going Retailing Featuring Premium Shelf Space

John Furrier — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:35:41 -0000

Stratman: I'd be curious how those artists are responding to this announcement? Can you be specific on how they threw artists under the bus? Financially? Creatively? other?

Re: Owen Van Natta to be Next MySpace CEO

John Furrier — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:55:42 -0000

MySpace can't loose it's lead. They are to big but this is the time for a change. I actually like Chris D and his team. Sorry to see them go.

Time for a reboot and picking an area to build a real business on is the right move. As you know I've been playing with searchme.com and some other social stuff. What MySpace could do is really take the lead in providing relevant user centric products - i agree music is a no brainer to start with.. i would integrate searchme.com as a default search due to the killer visual rendering tech they built.. nothing would be cooler than browsing profile pages in a visual way like searchme does it.

Other than that I say they need to get the business rolling in terms of providing a better service for users that ties in revenue immediately.

Re: SearchMe Announces Integrated Search Results Visually - Pages, Video, Music All-in-One Result

John Furrier — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:50:19 -0000

i really like the searchme approach especially the traction that they are getting in the most important emerging area - user 2.0 - this search is perfect for Facebook, MySpace, or anything display-heavy with content.

Browsing and navigating is easier and it's simple to understand - and the ad-model is content specific. All of those factors make a great search produc†. I'm definitely a fan boy of search me plus Randy Adams is a great entrepreneur who has vision - he gets it. For a company with a product less than one year old it's solid. "Me likes SearchMe"

Thanks for the link to spacetime

Re: Unsolicited Advice for the Newspaper Industry

John Furrier — Mon, 04 May 2009 20:40:20 -0000

Loved the line about "life coaching" companies in social media.."part of what we do here at SiliconANGLE is help out companies that are in need of social media life-coaching"

Funny just on Friday someone from a Fortune 100 brand called SiliconAngle Labs the "private version of Forrester meets McKinsey Consulting".

On the newspaper front I like you have been following them drive themselves over the cliff..it's sad. The reality is that they have more assets then they imagine. They need to kill their own business first then rebuild. If they don't eat their own the market will certainly finish the job... the outcome is inevitable.

I have yet to get a call from anyone in mainstream media.. they will cut their nose off

Re: There Was (and There Will Be) Blood

John Furrier — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:47:16 -0000

Nice post Sean. I agree that the issues around broadcast are changing and to force any static argument is crazy. To me the content owners need to be prepared (hint: look at the newspaper guys for an example of what not to do). My angle: the notion of a "network" has to include the new notion of distribution. The opportunity is what I call focusing on the "social lubricant" and incenting accounting in the distribution via more lubricant (money) and roll up all the ads in that network. Everyone wins. Soon the hunting and pecking for those elusive links will be over.

For those not understanding the above just email me and I'd be happy to explain further. SiliconAngle Labs is researching this exact thing now...

Re: MySpace Launching an Online Reality Series and a Marriage [New Media Minute]

John Furrier — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:56:47 -0000

Daisy,
Welcome to SiliconAngle we love your work and shout a huge endorsement!

The best spent minute in new media. Great job!

Re: Google Further Along in Future of Search Than Most People Know

John Furrier — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:46:27 -0000

That is good famebook. I would say to that comment..Google has looked into the abyss and came back and realized everyone is driving mach 100 right into it... they are laughing at everyone while the hypesters think they have the holy grail.

Don't underestimate Google's play here - especially on the competitive strategy side. Half of Google wants to jump up and down and say "look how smart we are" and the other half of Google thinks like "lets fool everyone and let them (competitors) think they are relevant"... being in search and tech infrastructure it's clear how they use their "naming conventions"...

Re: It’s Time for Webmail Giants to Open the Checkbook to Make Email Relevant Again - Is It The “Social InBox”

John Furrier — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:41:13 -0000

Kawika, as I write this I have 7,660 unread messages. Thank god that Gmail has a great search inside email. Without that I'd be dead. Once you go gmail your can't go back to Outlook. I've been an Outlook user for years but gmail just blows it away.

Organizing the convergence of online and offline has to be on the top of the agenda because with smart phones those worlds are now one. We need a better solutions faster than ever before. Facebook mail isn't it. Facebook mail sucks bad.

Re: Google Trivia: Win A Free Passes To Google Developer Event - Google I/O

John Furrier — Mon, 18 May 2009 12:05:07 -0000

Sam, Tim and Mike,
I was out all weekend with Soccer so sorry for not replying. You got a free pass. Thanks for replying

Here are the answers to the questions:

What year was the Google Search Appliance launched?
2002

What was the original name for PageRank?
Backrub

Who once likened Google Apps to technology from an advanced alien civilization?
Adrian Sannier, UTO, Arizona State University

What was Google's third largest acquisition ever?
Postini

What Google product did the White House use to host a recent online town hall?
Google Moderator, hosted on Google App Engine (either is ok)

When was Google Apps first released and what was it called?
Feb 2007, Gmail for your Domain

List 4 Google Apps APIs.
http://code.google.com/apis/apps/overview.html

What feature did Google recently launch to give developers who work on cloud-based business apps access to behind-the-firewall data?
The Secure Data Connector

Re: Wolfram-Alpha Isn’t the Future of Search, It’s Much More

John Furrier — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:27:28 -0000

Totally agree. Reminds my of the Monty Python saying "Now for something completely different".. different it is. Relevent - hmm ?? pun intended

I was going to spend the week digging into WA but I wanted to take a look at it as a "dumb user" before I did anything. The user experience sucked bad. Why I was expecting user results. After three attempts nothing came up. Finally typed in my home town. Big Yawn!

First search isn't broken it's changing. I agree with you're view that this isn't a google comparison. Cuil for example went after Google - result epic fail.

Wolfram has potential but until they can get an "app" to show off it's tech - it will be stalled.

Re: Welcome to the Stream

John Furrier — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:24:05 -0000

Nova,
Damn good post!

Re: Will Upfronts (Eventually) Be Supplanted by New Media Surrogates?

John Furrier — Thu, 21 May 2009 10:03:28 -0000

Love that video. It's funny but so true. Branded content can work but the advertisers have to get out of the way and let the creative forces drive the content. I love endorsements but it has to be real.

Online video is a huge opportunity but it needs a better performance metric now. One off elements don't scale and that's the problem with many approaches in online video.

I love this group getting together - well said at the end of the video - "there has to be a better way to do this"

Re: Content: To Optimize or Not To Optimize [Twitter Tips]

John Furrier — Fri, 22 May 2009 01:57:57 -0000

SMO - Social Media Optimization

That sounds like an industry waiting to be born and it won't come from the PR side

Re: How Leo Laporte May End Up Owning Twitter

John Furrier — Tue, 26 May 2009 12:02:39 -0000

I am a moron in tech and think that Leo has a case. All Twitter has to do is throw Leo some stock and it's gone. Leo has been more than "cool" since Twitter launched. We all know each other and never has Leo thrown the confusion issue in Twitters face. In face Leo has been a big supporter of Twitter in the early days on his show and his platform. I take my hat off to Leo for how he's handled this whole thing.

The thing for @ev and @biz to do is take care of Leo with some shares.

Re: The Defenestration of Seth Godin

John Furrier — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:17:35 -0000

Hi Seth: thanks for reading and commenting. Historically, the word defenestration was used to refer to an act of political dissent.

TV failure and the oncoming failure of broadcast advertising was right on. I think of the concept of permission marketing in the next ten years as I sit here at Google's I/O developer event. To me the evolution of permission is a moving train - even Facebook there is known and unknown permissions being granted and at TOS (terms of service) that is just a vague.

I'd love to get your input on the following: With the value of data available from user behavior now being mined both implicitly and explicitly it is driving new experiences, discoveries, and value on the web. What do you think the next 10 yrs of marketing will look like ? This is something of interest to us in our research an area that makes opt-in and permission marketing look like simple concept.

I'd love your "Angle" on that.

Re: The Success of Android

John Furrier — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:51:00 -0000

Had some interesting emails from this story come to me complimenting Suzanne and some were bold to say things like many of the apps built for Android had the HTC devices as the only target--they run but have screen sizes or input presumptions that aren't met by a smartbook. Moving past those will be a challenge for developers. It might be compared to the iPhone vs. MacbookAir challenge: how
many iPhone apps would run on an Air? How many of them would be needed, when there are more general apps to do the jobs?

I am happy that hot off the heels of Google I/O we have many Android developers reading SiliconAngle (SA)

Thanks Suzanne for joining. Can't wait to do a SV Android meetup. If we can get a sponsor I will do it in Palo Alto

Re: What Is Twitter - A Platform for Broadcast or for Conversation - A Twitter Conversation on Facebook

John Furrier — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:47:33 -0000

Rex you're saying that Twitter is just a shiny new object that has everyone all in tizzy. I would agree and add that the data will enable something compelling to your point web 3.0. Props

My Angle: The Federation will be in charge (couldn't resist the Star Trek reference). We need federation to scale twitter. Interoperability will trump everything in terms of value... Twitter has a great approach for developers - open data hence my line about "data being the developer kit". Next up for Twitter - The Federation.

Re: What Is Twitter - A Platform for Broadcast or for Conversation - A Twitter Conversation on Facebook

John Furrier — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:06:27 -0000

More comments from Facebook...

George Lanzaro

Thanks for all these interesting posts and topics John. SiliconAngle is really on top of the industry and we in Silicon Alley truly appreciate the insight you share. Its spot on.
I see twitter as a modern day CB or Direct Connect 2.0.
The early adapters who know how to use it have a huge opportunity to reach the masses. From my view the masses ... Read Moreuse twitter as a form of entertainment at first, then as a users network grows, it becomes both entertainment and communication platform. The evolution of twitter should interesting to see as it decides on, and develops a business model, grows its user base and encourages more engagement from it. As this occurs the impact twitter has on a local level as a peer to peer, group to group, one to many communication platform will become more evident. The HBR research seems to point to the classic 80/20 rule.
10-4 over and out bandit ....

Donnell Burch

This makes sense. I get a little confused about all those requests to follow my non existent feed about, what(?), my kids(?), on twitter.

Re: What Is Twitter - A Platform for Broadcast or for Conversation - A Twitter Conversation on Facebook

John Furrier — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:09:37 -0000

George Lanzaro
John, want to share this with you. It maps out the twitter currency quite nicely. i would only add an Educational component to it.

http://applicant.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04...

enjoy

Re: Online Liquidity Around The Corner?

John Furrier — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:25:02 -0000

Moneymaking is certainly a priority agreed. All the bullshit companies are getting weeded out now and the ones that have real value will monetize. The issue of monetization is not a company issue it's the market. Look at Facebook can't even monetize that so how does a startup with a few rounds of venture or a bootstrapped growing business scale with no revenues from the market. They don't.

The ad model has to change or the user's ability to pay has to change. Both are stalled right now. That being said I agree with you. Hooman's company will be around imho, but others won't.

Note the market is gaining ground Dow 10k coming soon.

Re: Intel Software Launches Online Video Network

John Furrier — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:32:27 -0000

I love what Intel is doing.

My Angle:
Josh B over there is on top of social media and has been from day one. I like the blended model of content development with a social component that involves real knowledgeable people - the community manager. This configuration will be the model for social media. The emphasis on content quality not polish is another think that impresses me. They can add that later when the ROI starts rolling in (and it will). Others do polish and no content and no community mgr.

Web programming on targeted segments- very good; vertical media

Four shows
Primary show will be Parallel Programming Talk hosted by Aaron Tersteeg. This show has been on for a year that has 14k listeners mainly on blogtalkradio in the past now appearing on Intel.com every Tuesday at 8am PST

Three new shows
1. Teach Parallel that will be every other week targeting the academic community by Paul Steinberg. Tuesdays at 10:00 am PST

2. Visualize This – targeting the visual computing community hosted by Steve Pitzel and Arti Gupta . Tuesdays at 2:30 pm PST every other week

3. Manageability hosted by Ajay Mungara – coming soon dates to be announced

Also a special show will be held on June 9th at 4pm PST a special one-time show called Moblin will debut on the Intel Software TV site. This was in the news just this week re: android. Moblin is very important trend & tech to watch.

Overall a great move by Intel that combines high quality informative content with dedicated community managers leading the charge. This in our opinion is a great implementation of social media and one to watch as the model of success.

In addition and coming soon to Intel Software a social media newsroom to provide content and social media to initiate and extend conversations about developing new technologies for the future of computing.

Happy to see Intel focus on quality with peers and peer content development verses trying to be popular. Here being popular will come from the value of the content and that means social media conversion.

Obviously this blog is about quality people and quality content so I fully *endorse* this new direction. Kudos to Josh and team.

Re: Google Enterprise The Enterprise Cloud

John Furrier — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:46:03 -0000

Had a great chat with google team and they are focusing on transparency.

Re: Hadoop is Becoming the Go To Platform for Data Analysis

John Furrier — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:22:01 -0000

For readers interested in this topic you have to follow my friend Amr Awadallah the cofounder of Cloudera. He's a great guy and "wicked smaaaart".

Amr is at twitter.com/awadallah

Re: Will Someone Please Show John C. Dvorak an Aggregator?

John Furrier — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:00:01 -0000

John C D is a one of the smartest guys out there and very entertaining. His point was pure entertainment in it's opinion. He of all should know the power of Twitter as a news source, but I think that he might be on to the main problem which is signal to noise. As more users come on board the noise level gets higher..

Don't forget YouTube :-)

Re: The FTC is Opening a Hornet’s Nest [ANGLE Round-Up]

John Furrier — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:23:34 -0000

This entire FTC debate is comparing apples to oranges. Trust is something that is earned one user at a time. Can't regulate trust.

Chris Anderson's 'long tail' distribution analysis is at play here. I think that the biggest issue is the lack of viable monetizaiton for publishers and that FTC regulation today will "kill" or "stunt" any possible innovation in targeted advertising solutions that can reward legit publishers.

Re: Inside the Beltway: Why the FTC is Absolutely, 100 Percent Right on ‘Sponsored Blogging’

John Furrier — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:26:49 -0000

I have to say that I'm in agreement with Andrew on many things. This isn't one of them. I believe we need standards but the FTC ...

Here's the rub: the FTC and many don't even know the game that is being played.. how can they enforce rules from another dying game.

As an aside I like the Kara Swisher ATD reference they are doing great "reporting" but they are heavily funded by Dow Jones.

This past week I was talking with CJ Cornell from ASU and I am working on a post about journalism and the current "process journalism" BS that is being tossed around.

Bottom Line: you can't confuse journalism from online communities. They are two different animals. Once you know that then it's clear. The issue is around the word "reporting" ..

Re: Mobile Ad Network Catfight: AdMob vs. The World

John Furrier — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:50:51 -0000

I think that AdMob is pissing off developers and that isn't a good thing. In an emerging and growing segment like global trust and reliability are keys to success. If AdMob is truly trying to force a lock in spec for developers then they are cutting themselves off at the legs.

It would seem that a 4th place company in share would want to enable solutions that move them up not down. AdMob is being quiet on this and that makes me wonder what is really going on.

Re: Social Media Fact-checking [Michael Jackson’s Confirmed Death]

John Furrier — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:01:10 -0000

It is now confirmed - he has passed. I've done a many of moonwalks in my day in college..

He was good.

Re: One More Time: Iran Isn’t Using Deep Packet Inspection

John Furrier — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:42:07 -0000

Comments on Friendfeed where more insight is being shed on this subject. Specifically John Craft has data to share.

Re: True Ventures - The True Story

John Furrier — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:42:18 -0000

Here is my comment that I left on PE Hub

The Angel racket has been unreliable for many years. Now that you no longer need to be in the inner circle boys club because of things like social networks, twitter, and the web. Deals can be sourced all over the world. Look at the Boston VCs doing all their deals in CA and Silicon Valley.

As an entrepreneur I don’t care if the VC or seed fund is in Boston or Silicon Valley - I want a partner who will pony up cash after the 500k is gone. Most traditional angels fall down there. That my friends is what kills the dilution factor because the entrepreneur is at the mercy of the VC. Nothing is worse for an entrepreneur with a viable venture and no money left in the bank and they are desparate for a VC round.

VCEntrepreneur: that is when your dilution argument #fails. At that point the entrepreneur is fired and the VC owns 60-80%.

True’s formula is transparent and for companies less than $8 pre then the percentages will statistically work in favor of the entreprenuer yet True gets a good cut.

For me that is why I started the SiliconAngle.com incubator in Palo Alto. It is designed to get the zero to early stage going and all the projects we are working on are way to early for any traditional VCs. Plus entrepreneurs are excited by all the recent activity in new funds being formed for early stage like Marc Andressens new fund among others that already are doing great like First Round Capital.

What you will see as the next *big trend* is early stage incubators like SiliconAngle.com Labs to team up with these new super seed funds.

Re: Exclusive Interview: HP Labs Takes Innovative Approach to Corporate Research

John Furrier — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:24:38 -0000

Bruce create question HP Labs isn't there yet. I am following up with them on this. Getting new stuff out fast is something on their radar but not fully in play yet (that is Prith's words). They are looking at this though.

HP has always been called the "boy scouts" when it comes to competing and I think a little recklessness is needed..in this fast prod/technology market I think they would be surprised how good things would be if they seeded some stuff out there.

Great points!!

Re: 10 Things Every Entrepreneur Must Be Reading

John Furrier — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:54:53 -0000

Great post. The secret to the Valley is vetting out the "real" opportunities and that is from doing the things you suggested in the post. I would add that there is no one secret formula.

There is a difference in the social media sphere from being popular persona, a connector, or a maven. I agree everyone should have a formulated 'social brain feed' from some of those sources and other ones out there. I would add that the key to success in doing that is not going for some prefabricated recommendation but instead something you find that connects to you.

Aggregation is great but use if for your own needs.. The biggest thing for zero and early stage is "chemistry" of like minds and it's ussually something different than what's popular and trendy.

Re: What you all are missing about Google

John Furrier — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:08:34 -0000

I'm sure Google doesn't mind that their stock price is getting hammered ..now down to 457...

something is being missed for sure

Re: Why YouTube is going long-form

John Furrier — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:57:13 -0000

this is validation for all the naysayers on the long form videos...the value users place on a video is independent on the size of the file but the content in it.

The web is an opt-in platform - if the user wants to watch and get the value they opt-in and long or short doesn't matter. It's the value of the content.

Re: Data And The Future Of The Web

John Furrier — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 23:40:33 -0000

Scott, I've been reading your blog. Good posts and you're never shy to talk about the tough topics.

However on this one Umair all wet data is *not* a commodity. Umair has to take his head out of his "Porter five forces" text book and smell the coffee. I like Umair's analysis but here he's way off base.

Data is not a commodity. Ask Google why they love their toolbar and love their data from those hundreds of thousands of servers. Do you think they can sell it to me? Oh wait its a commodity so I'll just duplicate their data.. not.

Keep posting

Re: Why Traditional Advertising Formats Fail On The Web

John Furrier — Tue, 27 May 2008 11:58:00 -0000

Scott,
Great post. I've been shouting this for years.

I know the answer to the next online advertising trend.. it's somewhere buried in Furrier.org :-)

Short answer: Content is the Ad!

Problem/Opportunity: it's not the content people who will dominate - it's an infrastructure trend (like search that enabled adwords and adsense); Only a small few are tracking this.

keep these posts rolling

Re: The Influentials

John Furrier — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:24:29 -0000

Great start many flaws but it's early no one really has cracked this yet. I've been working on it as well.

Keep on experimenting and testing!!

Re: Can you trust any VC’s under 40?

John Furrier — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:48:28 -0000

We are living in an age of Entrpreneurial Counter Culture

http://siliconangle.net/ver2/2009/09/18/an-entr...

Re: CBS-CNET: Ad Execs Bless The Marriage, Adding 'CBS Isn't Getting Any Younger'

John Furrier — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:53:15 -0000

great reporting guys. Keep this story coming.

I think this is a good move for CBS . CB/NET
http://furrier.org/2008/05/15/cbs-20-cbs-buys-c...

take a look at my friend Fred Davis' post..he worked there from the beginning.
http://fredtime.com/?p=118

Vertical Advertising and Content is the new big trend. Smart for both CBS and CNet

Re: AdMob: Apple's App Market Worth Nearly $200 Million Each Month

John Furrier — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:55:30 -0000

I would love to know who "commissioned" this report? Did AdMob contract with an outside agency or is this the monthly AdMob data.

AdMob still claims to be the leading ad network for mobile when they say "AdMob claims to be the worldâs largest mobile ad network, serving more than 7 billion ads per month to more than 160 countries and territories."

This doesn't jive with our findings at siliconANGLE