Archive for December, 2006

Blogs & Brands

December 18th, 2006

Once again, I am in San Francisco and between the obligatory Christmas shopping had a little time to peruse the New York Times…and came across a really interesting article: Brands for the Chattering Masses (note to German media publishers: NYT provides a permalink for each of their articles). It’s a bit too focused on Buzzmetrics […]

Back from Le Web 3

December 13th, 2006

The third event seems to be a tipping point for yearly conferences: Finally word has gotten from the insiders to the mainstream that it’s the place to be. That’s why there were more than 1000 people at this year’s Le Web 3 conference. For me, the action was clearly in the hallway. Much like at […]

Le Web 3 - Politicians entering the scene

December 12th, 2006

The Le web 3 conference is taking an interesting turn: After word got around that French minister Mr Sarkozy will be speaking later today, everyone wants to use this conference for promoting their own political agenda: The UDF’s lead candidate invited himself to the stage and was suddenly joined by two well known French journalists […]

Zudeo Launches

December 4th, 2006

One of the privileges of being a VC is being able to see your portfolio companies grow and be successful. One of these companies is Azureus , which is currently launching its new product called “Zudeo“. I will spare you a lot of the details since you probably caught them already on GigaOm […]