What are your predictions for consumer Internet in 2010? Here are my top 5.
It is the time of the year for predictions – here is what I think will happen in 2010 in consumer Internet: Facebook will lock down on its dominance of the social graph: Facebook Connect will become the standard for the social web with every major website implementing it. Other social networks like MySpace, Hi5, […]
Search? Social media? Implicit user behavior? Differentiating good from bad content.
Michael Arrington’s post about search optimized content creation (“The end of hand crafted content“) started an interesting discussion about the role of social media in differentiating good content from bad content (check out Fred Wilson’s “Why social beats search” and the counterargument by Chris Dixon arguing that passed links will be critical inputs to better […]
New opportunities in marketplaces for creative services
While the past 10 years have seen a big focus on marketplaces for physical goods (eBay, AbeBooks, etsy, et al.), there have been a few success stories of marketplaces for creative services in the past couple of years and it feels that this sector is poised to really take off. The most important success factor […]
The challenge for Canadian VC’s
VC funds go through challenging times world-wide but the situation in Canada is probably worse than in many other places. Most VC’s in this country have been focused on the domestic market, both for raising funds as well as investing their money. Turns out that this created returns that were about 10% below the returns […]
How the government can help build the tech sector
I often get asked what governments can do to help build a tech sector so I wanted to put together a few thoughts on this blog what I think works and what doesn’t: Have a vision and speak with one voice: one of the largest problems I have seen in the past is that governments […]