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Re: Tough Times Ahead For The Web?

Alexander Ainslie (@AAinslie) — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 14:08:23 -0000

At the end of the day one has to have a recession proof revenue model. Everything else is window dressing!

Re: List of “White Label” or “Private Label” (Applications you can Rebrand) Social Networking Platforms, Community Platforms

Alexander Ainslie (@AAinslie) — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:39:41 -0000

Jeremiah,

I am currently looking to build a multi-network social networking platform for charities to use for free. This will be mated to our Fundraising-as-a-Service engine which will offer an aggregate of generic and proprietary, low-friction, fundraising mechanics which we have proven in the UK market for over 10 years.

Any suggestions or pointers to a list of platforms that are downloadable and preferable with non-proprietary code etc.?

Thanks in advance,
Alexander

Re: Confirmed: Live Video On YouTube This Year

Alexander Ainslie (@AAinslie) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:21:54 -0000

In addition to gLive Video, I believe there is high probability of some sort of deal, link-up or service between YouTube and Seesmic in the not too distant future.

Takers anyone?! What do you think?

Re: Getting things done with Stephanie Booth (and Seesmic du Jour 107)

Alexander Ainslie (@AAinslie) — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:54:49 -0000

GTD & some options on RWW:
http://www.readwriteweb.com...

Re: Why+We%26%23039%3Bre+Suing+Facebook+For+%2425+Million+In+Statutory%26nbsp%3BDamages

Alexander Ainslie (@AAinslie) — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:01:15 -0000

Mike:

In case this is not a hoax, why don't you boost your personal brand value further by committing to donate half of the 25 million or whatever you end up getting to charity!

Re: MySpaceTV Inks Content Distribution Deal With ShineReveille International

Alexander Ainslie (@AAinslie) — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:56:52 -0000

Shine Group was founded by Elizabeth Murdoch.

A deal with her Dad's MySpace was only a matter of time!

Re: Social Entrepreneurship and Alphabet Soup Corporations

Alexander Ainslie (@AAinslie) — Sun, 25 May 2008 11:25:32 -0000

Hi Jay,

Interesting post. US "B" corporations seem to be a weaker, light, version of CIC's (Community Interest Companies) in the UK. See: http://www.cicregulator.gov...

Just ran across your blog (and your services) through the FR post on Term Sheet Glossary.

Alexander Ainslie
Paris, France

Re: Social Entrepreneurship and Alphabet Soup Corporations

Alexander Ainslie (@AAinslie) — Sat, 31 May 2008 06:52:02 -0000

Bonjour!

You are welcome. Ping me directly and I shall be happy to share more
on the subject and also some "hybrid" structural combinations that I
am involved with that may interest you relating to "Socialprise" (I
think that's what they are trying to call this now!). FYI, my
personal focus is on Charitable or Compassionate Capitalism oriented
business models.

You may also find this interesting:

A Letter to Facebooks Founder
from The Deal Professor (Steven M. Davidoff)
http://dealbook.blogs.nytim...
founder/index.html?partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

Alexander

Re: Widgets Lab on the Blog Commenting Space

Alexander Ainslie (@AAinslie) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:15:53 -0000

Who would you pick as most likely to win this race from the existing field of players?

Re: A Deep Dive Into The Paris Startup Scene

Alexander Ainslie (@AAinslie) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:39:07 -0000

I was planing on stopping by the Pont Party this evening to say hello to Mr. Freemium ;) himself but something came up.

I was looking forward to pointing you to a foundation technology I discovered while researching secure, scalable messaging systems to power one of the apps we are building. The developers are rockstar Swedes based in SF. Their tech and approach may help sort out some of the issues you are having with twitter.

You are welcome to ring me directly on my Paris number +33660664111.

Re: Breaking: Clearspring acquires AddThis

Alexander Ainslie (@AAinslie) — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:16:11 -0000

If you were to pick a horse, which one would you put money on?!

Re: Breaking: Clearspring acquires AddThis

Alexander Ainslie (@AAinslie) — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:33:39 -0000

Do they have a "feature" or a "business"?

Re: ‘Too Small To Fail’…The Layoff Lie

Alexander Ainslie (@AAinslie) — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 06:40:46 -0000

Loic:

Courage! Come back home and sell Seesmic to a French media co. this timing will be right and you have a different kind of credibility here in France.

French map out digital economy: L'auction d'analogue, et apres: http://bit.ly/1VxoVY

Re: Qoof Goes All-in-One With Video Retail. Outta the Way, QVC.

Alexander Ainslie (@AAinslie) — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:48:07 -0000

@Paul: I think you may want to modify your article heading from "Outta the way, QVC" to "QVC's Web 3.0 hedge bet" ... Why? ... Kara Nortman - Vice President, Mergers & Acquisitions, IAC, is on Qoof's Board of Advisors.

Coincidence? I think not. Barry Diller is one smart cookie in this domain and it looks like he has someone on the inside of Qoof. He was the first guy over the age of 50 to "get" the commercial potential of the internet - and this was 10+ years ago.

@Richard: you also may want to build in a "quasi-video" feature that allows sellers without video pro filming resources to build animated sequences using existing photo assets (jpgs; tiffs; gifs etc.) - I am referring specifically to you building a "Ken Burns Effects" photo editing engine with the ability to do voice overs and also a simple online video editing UI which can combine a Ken Burns sequence with a video narration/presenter. This may give you the ability to push your model further down stream from the macro user (i.e. buy.com) to a micro user (smaller eTailer) but giving them (even those of us who are not technically or creatvely inclined!) the ability to build a rich, visual, product animated sequence using assets already at hand. I have some other Ideas and suggestions - if you are interested, ping me on LinkedIN.

Good luck QOOF!
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Kara Nortman - Vice President, Mergers & Acquisitions, IAC
Ms. Nortman is Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions for IAC/InterActiveCorp. In this role, she is responsible for identifying, recommending and executing corporate mergers, acquisitions, investments and divestitures, as well as executing cross-company business development projects. Previously, Ms. Nortman worked for Battery Ventures from 1999 to 2002 and again from 2004 to 2006. During that time, Ms. Nortman focused on investments in the Internet, communications and new media sectors. She was previously involved with The NewsMarket, Spot Runner, The Loan Page (acquired by HouseValues), EnvoyWorldWide (acquired by PAR3 Communications), Kashya (acquired by EMC), and Cbeyond Communications (Nasdaq: CBEY).

Ms. Nortman has held a position in Microsoftâ€™s corporate development group, where she evaluated product strategies in the gaming, healthcare and mobile markets. She has also worked in the Private Equity Group at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter where she analyzed investment opportunities in telecommunications for a $1.9 billion private equity fund. Ms. Nortman holds an AB in political science from Princeton University and an MBA from Stanford University.

Re: Congratulations, Senator. Now the Real Work Begins.

Alexander Ainslie (@AAinslie) — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:51:45 -0000

Roger:

One more item for your list!

Legalize and tax online gambling and alternative lotteries (the latter of interest to one of my European focused ventures). Stop, once and for all, the failed logic of the Bush legacy which has caused billions of dollars per year to be transferred from the safety of US shores into the hands of European and off-shore based operators (both in white listed jurisdictions and wild west like jurisdictions like Costa Rica).

Alexander in Paris.

Re: Facebook Connect: The Pros and Cons

Alexander Ainslie (@AAinslie) — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:07:34 -0000

The recently launched service, RPX, from Janrain provides an aggregated SSO capability encompassing most of the major ID platforms: http://www.janrain.com/prod...

Re: Facebook Connect: The Pros and Cons

Alexander Ainslie (@AAinslie) — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:17:39 -0000

Also see RWW for a good overview of RPX:
JanRain Offers Distributed Social Options Galore, Interscope Geffen A&M Bites
http://www.readwriteweb.com...

Re: CoolFlick: Flickr Embedding Cooliris Style

Alexander Ainslie (@AAinslie) — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 10:02:38 -0000

CoolFlick could also integrate with http://tineye.com for "Reverse Image Look-up" to give users the ability to research attribution and source of an image. From my limited use of the service, TinEye isn't perfect yet. I suspect it will get better over time as the data set gets richer.

Re: Affluence, The Social Network That Makes Your Life Better ... If You're A Millionaire

Alexander Ainslie (@AAinslie) — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:00:34 -0000

@Jennifer:

How is it that you are able to [invite everyone that I "see" apply for membership today to my friends list on Affluence]?

How do you "see" them. Do you work for Affluence?!

Re: Dependency.

Alexander Ainslie (@AAinslie) — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:01:51 -0000

Prenez le temps pour aller vite!

Re: Markets in everything: p2p education

Alexander Ainslie (@AAinslie) — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:25:57 -0000

Congrats on the SoE round.

An SoE API throttled through www.Mashery.com and plugged into the Open Source www.Moodle.org 's ecosystem should help SoE grow fast. Moodle has 29+ million users!

SoE as a Moodle partner could provide bi-directional synergy for both to grow value. SoE get's access to loads of teachers/students and Moodle teachers get access to the SoE market/platform (distribution channel).

Google have realized the value of Moodle and implemented an integration of Google apps into Moodle CRM in colloboration with a Moodle partner, Moodlerooms. See: http://moodlerooms.com/ & http://bit.ly/rgaUb & http://bit.ly/ACfvt

For more structured teaching/learning, SoE could also provide a Moodle powered bespoke Course Management System (SoE Services) on a free, freemium or premium subscription basis. I am sure you have though all this through and my comments are likely redundant.

The Moodle ecosystem has:
Registered validated sites: 50,899
Number of countries: 208
Courses: 2,685,791
Users: 29,306,810
Teachers: 1,868,246
Enrolments: 21,523,739
Forum posts: 36,858,465
Resources: 21,377,965
Quiz questions: 28,720,142
See: http://moodle.org/stats/

As a matter of fact, SoE could probably base its entire platform on a bespoke Moodle CRM if you wanted to and with www.Alfresco.com integration thrown in for document management - way better than Sharepoint - Alfresco is FOSS (Free Open Source Software) to boot!

BTW, if you need an Open Source systems integrator to stitch it all together, try www.optaros.com

Getting a distribution deal with http://sharethis.com/ for the SoE "Learn This" & "Teach This" buttons may help tap into a strong, relevant, viral loop. As you know, ShareThis is fast becoming ubiquitous.

In the UK a cross marketing agreement with P2P mentoring exchange www.horsesmouth.co.uk may help grow SoE.

SoE is a brilliant venture. Good luck!

Re: Markets in everything: p2p education

Alexander Ainslie (@AAinslie) — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:41:19 -0000

Yet another new Market - this time its for Product Placement: www.placevine.com

Re: Use Topify to Manage Your Twitter Life with Email

Alexander Ainslie (@AAinslie) — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:24:54 -0000

Just signed up to Topify and got my first "Topify Powered" new follower "enhanced" notice on my regular email. Brilliantly simple and very useful granular info. Will be a great time saver.

I for one was not concerned about handing over my login details for one reason and one reason ONLY: Ouriel Ohayon (@ourielohayon) has put his name and reputation on the line. Got people locally in Herzeliya Pituach and France who can find him if Topify messes around with my account! ;)

@ourielohayon you may want to build in a simple counter to show people how much time they are saving, in aggregate, by using the Topify "push info" service as opposed of having to leave email and go to twitter or another service to discover to follow someone or not.

Re: Review: Silverback, Usability and the Mac

Alexander Ainslie (@AAinslie) — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:29:03 -0000

Apparently folks are finding it cumbersome to export video from Silverback.

Solution: Perhaps the Silverback team can look into integrating the Seesmic API and offload the video part to the Seesmic platform and give your users access to the video this way. Just a thought!
@AAinslie

Re: Review: Silverback, Usability and the Mac

Alexander Ainslie (@AAinslie) — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:29:03 -0000

Apparently folks are finding it cumbersome to export video from Silverback.

Solution: Perhaps the Silverback team can look into integrating the Seesmic API and offload the video part to the Seesmic platform and give your users access to the video this way. Just a thought!
@AAinslie