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Riya’s founder and CEO Munjal Shah, has written a fantastic account for the launch of Riya. The first post “Episode 1: March 21 6am PST to March 28 6am” is a great account of all the ups and downs a start-up goes through during its launch. I think that many of us really can identify [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 7, 2006
My good friend and Maxthon partner, Morten Lund (early Skype-investor) & his team at LundKenner has just made a strategic investment in Israeli Start-up Spearcast. I am very happy of being responsible for making this happen. Morten will take a seat on Spearcast’s Board of Directors (I am already on Spearcast’s Advisory Board). Spearcast, recently [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 5, 2006
Robert Young, a frequent guest columnist on OM Malik’s Blog, has written a very accurate description about the changing media landscape and the power balance between consumers and corporations. The post is called: Social Nets and the power of the URL. According to Young, one of the most effective ways to measure the shifting balance [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 14, 2006
The Personal Bee is yet another news website, getting ready for launch of its aunch of its do-it-yourself news service. According to the company it self it is: “a social media company that believe that the combination of RSS, smart analytics, and user collaboration will lead to a better way for you to find news on [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 13, 2006
New York Times has a good write up about how user generated content and how it is changing the media landscape. The article’s conclusion, is that most amateurs are just happy for having their clips posted on sites for everybody to see. However, more and more media companies are offering prices or even paying for [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 9, 2006
NPR’s All things considered , has a very interesting piece on Podcasting in China. Like everything else Internet-related in China, podcasts are exploding in popularity. From film parodies to pornography, audio and video downloads are pushing the boundaries of the law and decency. There is any interview with Irishman Ken Carroll started podcasting Chinese lessons just [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Piper Jaffray held their third Annual China Internet & Technology Conference in Beijing last week. From the discussions & presentations held at the conference, the following key take aways emerged: 1. The economy is less of a risk, compared with last year2. Leaders are emerging within the sector3. Companies are more realistic about market opportunity [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 16, 2006
Guy Kawasaki from “Let the good times roll”, by provides us with some valuable advice about the art of creating a community. Having been involved in quite a few “community building companies”, I think that Maxthon by far exceeds them all. The thriving, ever growing and passionate Maxthon community is build by users and with [...]
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Wednesday, May 31, 2006
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