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Last Friday, Apple has finally released its latest version of Mac OS X Leopard. If you want a comparison between Mac OS X Leopard and Microsoft Vista, this guide by Engadget will help you in deciding your next computer to be a Mac or PC. Well, no worries, nowadays, a Mac can run windows with an Intel chip. It has made 2 million sales by today, as spoken by AppleInsider.
I often tell people who want to go into web 2.0 that one should be fast and nimble, given the last dot com boom ended in a bust. This article from New York Magazine entitled Web Bubble 2.0 may offer some perspective for those who are moving into this space.
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John Nesheim offers some advice on Raising VC Money: From one or more VCs? and also offer advice to entrepreneurs about HIDDEN TRICKS: Know the terms of your VC deal.
Other good reads include: With FriendCSV, Data Sneaks Out Facebook’s Back Door from TechCrunch about data in online social networks, and perhaps, some upcoming thoughts on the coming release of Mac OS X Leopard from Chris Pirillo. If you don’t have anything on tonight, drop by E27 Garage for the FaceBook Developer’s Garage later.
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“What is your startup worth? What terms should you accept from investors?” John Nesheim offers his perspective in the article “STARTUP VALUATIONS: VCs are getting expensive“.
This article from Reuters by Scott Hills “Companies shifting virtual world strategies” tells us about 2nd Life being overhyped. If you want to know how much has been invested into virtual worlds, you can refer to the list here.
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Let’s start from our local scene. PopOut! 2007 has been a great event, and kudos to The Digital Movement for putting it together. Most of the IDM community have found another chance to have a get-together. You can read the views of Ian Timothy, Aen Tan, Highway of Life, Thought Monkeys, BitBot (Su Yuen from TDM), Singapore Infocomm Technology Federation (SITF) and Simply Jean on what they think about the event. Honestly, Herryanto’s BookJetty stole the day.
Now, something more educational, John Nesheim recently wrote a good series about board of directors, from the why and how to engage them. Here are the three articles which you should take a good look about Board of Directors: Friend of Foe?, How to pick the people and Seek wisdom & perspective. Most importantly, for all of you out there, have a good weekend ahead.
September 21, 2007 by SGE
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Do you know what is going on in the TechCrunch 4.0 2007? Here is a review of the event from James Seng, our local guru currently in California. You might also want to check out the company Mint, the company that took the 50K prize from the conference.
For those who are in the aggregator business, Jeremiah’s list will provide some perspective for you. As you know that Business 2.0 is finally ending with the last issue, TechCrunch has written an “eulogy” for them.
September 14, 2007 by SGE
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Web Strategy (Advanced): Applying a Social Computing Strategy to the entire Product Lifecycle by Jeremiah Owyang offers the “online strategies for your company or organization, specifically using social media and computing tools to reach, connect, and build communities around your brand”.
Guess what, the iPhone is now unlocked in 32 countries and 69 carriers. Guess which one of the three telcos you can use in Singapore. Have you started thinking whether to buy a iPod Touch? Here is some advice from Engadget.
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10 Future Web Trends by Richard MacManus from Read/Write Web talks about the ten interesting trends after the rise of web 2.0.
For those thinking of utilizing the power of social networks into search engines, here are two articles which I believe are of interest to entrepreneurs: Facebook’s Public Search Listing Has Problems For Both Personal And Business Users by Publishing 2.0 by Scott Karp and People Search Business Just Got More Complicated As Facebook Enters Market by Michael Arrington offers some perspective on the limitations based on privacy laws. Lastly, our local Mr Brown is getting mention by our friend Nathan Torkington in his article Great Blend: The Future of Media.
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We start off with an interesting article from Presentation Zen entitled PowerPoint tips that are clear and to the point. In this article, the author offer three goals from Kosslyn’s book “Clear to the Point”: (1) Connect with your audience, (2) Direct and hold their attention, and (3) Promote understanding & memory and give explicit details on how to engage the audience listening to your presentation.
Following on, we have John Nesheim, talking about MANAGING VALUE PROPOSITION: Clarity + Numbers = Unforgetable, and it looks like that we are not the only people who advocate hard numbers for a value proposition. Finally, from Jeremiah Owyang, the web strategist, he presents an interesting article The Three Spheres of Web Strategy (and the skills required) that offers a perspective on how one should balance between technology, business and in our current web 2.0 era, community.
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Train your reasoning and analytical skills when evaluating anything in life - be it that business plan that just came into the mail, or a claim that your friend just made. Scott Berkun asks us to question fundamentals and premises which claims rest on in How to Detect Bullshit.
Todd Hoff gives a low-down on the YouTube architecture. Great for all web 2.0 startups seeking to understand YouTube better, learn from their process and perhaps emulate some of their practices. A startup I know uses its example of living off credit cards – may not be the smartest idea, but perhaps one of the few viable ones at the beginning.
For the past few days, Singapore hosted the conference “State of Play V: Building the Global Metaverse“. It brings down academics, industry players and even lawyers down for this conference. One of our editors from SGE is currently working (with the help of The Digital Movement) on a narration of an informal meeting with with Xu Hui (CEO and Founder of HiPiHi, a virtual world platform from China that utilizes a different set of ideas and technologies from the renowned 2nd Life), which will be published in a few days time. Meanwhile for our readers, you can read interesting accounts of the conference through our local technologists/bloggers, Van Tan and James Seng, and also from a famous Korean blogger, TechnoKimchi (who wrote a few entries on this event), who was also present in the conference.
