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Reboot Snippets

May 31st, 2007

So Reboot this year is on humanity….here are a few tidbits from this morning illustrating the breadth of the discussions:
On humans (Robert Paterson)
Humans take in 1.5 tons of matter each year. 98% of atoms in your body are replaced within a year.
On humanity and Second Life (Adam Arvidsson, the only academic I have seen talks […]

next07 in Hamburg Tomorrow

May 2nd, 2007

Tomorrow the Next07 conference will be going on in Hamburg. For once an interesting conference that doesn’t require more than a subway ride (for me) to get to! It’ll be my pleasure to introduce and throw some questions at Nico Lumma, who’ll certainly also tell us a thing or two about his new project, Shoppero…

Community in Web 2.0 - What’s New, What’s Different?

May 4th, 2006

Next week, I’ll have the pleasure to speak at Sinner Schrader’s birthday event here in Hamburg. I’ll have the opportunity to spend 15 minutes talking about “community” in the context of Web 2.0. As I was sitting down to think about what I might have to say, I thought it would be a good idea […]

Netvibes getting funding

March 22nd, 2006

Many people are writing about it, so just a quick pointer in case you missed it: Another European start up, Netvibes, is getting funding by great backers. See Techcrunch.

Convisual IPO - 7 days later

January 21st, 2006

Last Friday, German-based Convisual went public (Lightreading). The company is in the business of wholesaling entertainment content to mobile operatos. I was curious on how the stock would do, and have been surprised by the strong uptick. (Yahoo quote)

Given conventional VC wisdom, an IPO is an extremely lucrative way to exit an investment and achieve […]