Tom Foremski
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Color: A Quick Review
It’s a shame that the $41m funding of Color Labs has dominated the news about Color, a radically different type of mobile app, because that’s what’s interesting. Color shares photos with everyone around you that has the app on their iPhone or Android device. There are no privacy settings and you don’t need to “friend” ...
Is Curation a Flash in the Pan?
It’s clear that the interest of Internet users can be very fickle indeed. Sites and services can have sudden boosts of popularity and then pretty much disappear from view. I’m thinking of Quora as one example. But also Digg, MySpace and many others… And whenever there is a burst of hype around a topic it ...
Coming Up: Poland Day Investment Seminar At – Facebook Palo Alto
This Saturday, March 26, the US-Polish Trade Council is hosting “Poland Day” a seminar focused on business investments and the relationship between Silicon Valley and Poland. The event starts promptly at 8am and finishes at 11.45am at Facebook, 1050 Page Mill Road, Building 2, Palo Alto, CA. There is also a dinner on Friday March ...
Color: A $41m Bet on a Radical Social Mobile App
Last week I was in Palo Alto, drenched by torrential rains but happy to catchup with serial entrepreneur Bill Nguyen and hear about his remarkable new startup Color, which today launched its iPhone and Android based mobile app. Color has raised $41 million from a stellar group of investors. This is a huge amount of ...
Here’s Why Google Should Bid For T-Mobile
Foremski’s Take: The potential acquisition of T-Mobile by AT&T [T] is bad news for Silicon Valley with its strong focus on the consumer: search, social networks, and a spectrum of cloud based services. The reason is that the distributors of all that wonderful Silicon Valley content and services, from Google, Facebook, Twitter, and a myriad ...
Twitter Turns 5: What’s Its Future? It’s In The Tweets
Twitter celebrates it 5 year anniversary today. It’s a fascinating service, one that has been very useful to me and my line of work. And others like it too. I’m always fascinated by how much, or little, a company’s founders/top execs use their own service or product. I think it is key to the future ...
Kevin Covert: Preparing For a Silicon Valley M&A Boom in New Media
Investment banker Kevin Covert is increasing staff at his company, Covert & Co, up to prepare for an M&A bonanza in Silicon Valley. He says that the conditions are great for M&A especially in new media. Mr Covert lives in southern California but he is no stranger to Silicon Valley, having been very active here, ...
Curation Can Create A Snapshot Of Our Digital Lives
As our lives become increasingly digital curation tools can provide a good way to document our activities, capturing a snapshot of key events and moments. For example, the South by South West Interactive conference that is winding down in Austin, Texas attracted a lot of people, sharing lots of ideas, conversations, product launches, and more. ...
Craigslist Planning Big Expansion?
There was an interesting tidbit in Therese Poletti’s Tech Tales on MarketWatch this week: Another recent move was by Craigslist, which had long occupied a Victorian in the mostly residential Inner Sunset neighborhood. The online classified ads firm, which was started as an email list of San Francisco events by Craig Newmark in 1995, moved ...
Zediva: Rent A DVD Player + Movie Online for $2
Zediva launched today, a service that allows you to rent and watch newly released DVD movies online at the low price of $2 each. This is about half-the price of other services and it includes movies that might not be available online for months. How does Zediva get access to new movies while other, larger ...