A shout-out to the Vancouver web community
Communities get built from the ground up, by passionate people that dedicate their time and energy to organize events, mentor young entrepreneurs or blog about what is going on. And I am really proud about what I am seeing in Vancouver right now – some highlights from the past year? Debbie Landa from Dealmaker Media […]
What are your predictions for 2011? Here are my top 4.
I didn’t do too badly predicting what would happen in the consumer Internet space in 2010 so I am giving it another try for 2011: Android will become the most important mobile platform to develop for – the iPhone platform will be number 2, the rest (RIM, Windows Phone) will only play a marginal role. […]
Looking back at my 2010 predictions
The year is slowly coming to an end and it is time to look back at my 2010 predictions for the consumer internet space – overall, I would give myself a 3.5 out of 5: Prediction #1: Facebook will lock down on its dominance of the social graph: Facebook Connect will become the standard for […]
New investment: Sparkbuy, the Kayak for consumer electronics
In the same way that e-commerce has not innovated for almost a decade until the recent flood of innovation (flash sales, group buying, mass customization, social commerce), price comparison engines still work very similarly to how they were originally designed during the days of the web 1.0. So it is time to shake things up […]
Search Engine Optimization versus Social Media Marketing
Image by dannysullivan via Flickr In the past couple of months many people started claiming that Social Media Marketing is becoming more important than search engine optimization. While there is no doubt about the fact that Twitter, Facebook et al. are driving an increasing amount of traffic to websites, it is also not as simple […]