Tim Draper blames impatient entrepreneurs.Tony Perkins discussed digital media and the entertainment industry with venture capital insiders Tim Draper, John Jarve, and Brad Feld during ... More
As AlwaysOn Insiders know, since our founding in 2002 we’ve been committed to the free-market, merit-driven approach to media. We daresay that few other media brands have encouraged such a liberal mixture of member participation and... More
Consumer-generated media's a real contender, thanks to zero-cost distribution.
Tony Perkins discussed digital media and the entertainment industry with venture capital insiders Tim Draper, John Jarve, and Brad Feld during a recent breakfast panel. ... More
Brad Feld: You might as well stick crack in a cellphone.
Tony Perkins discussed digital media and the entertainment industry with venture capital insiders Tim Draper, John Jarve, and Brad Feld during a recent breakfast panel.
At the end of 2003, I invited entrepreneurs from all over the world to post their ideas to my AlwaysOn blog. I then selected 10 entries from over 110 postings, and these winning entrepreneurs had the opportunity to pitch their ideas to me face-to-face, using VidiTel's videoconferencing. ... More
A contemporary holiday poem, with apologies to Clement Moore
Twas the night before payroll, when all through the company The place was abuzz, Would they layoff, any? The CVs were out on the Internet bubble… ... More
Well, I posted something on Sunday about Tesla and, lone behold, they are in the news again with more internal turmoil.It seems that Martin Eberhard, the visionary [ousted] founder of Tesla was ... More
I was at Tesla in March, hosted by Kurt Kelty, their head of battery technology. As I'm sure most people who are following Tesla know, it's basically a stretched Lotus Elise with a different body.... More
As many of you may have heard, Skype today dropped an appeal of their GPL violations case, accepting a lower court decision that they had violated the GPL (the details of the case are available here).... More
Sprint Nextel and Clearwire's reported $12 billion joint venture to roll out ultra-fast wireless Internet access would be a significant boost to the cellular aspirations of Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Google.... More
I've gotten a number of questions in the last few weeks about Linux desktops and OpenOffice. These have come from enterprise users, the press and venture capitalists. It's interesting, because this seems to be a meme that is revived every few years.... More
Nuru Rimington-Mkalif is a 21-year-old, unknown, London-based filmmaker who suddenly finds himself represented by William Morris Agency and positioned to make a Hollywood feature film -- because of an online contest. ... More
Nuru Rimington-Mkalif is a 21-year-old, unknown, London-based filmmaker who suddenly finds himself represented by William Morris Agency and positioned to make a Hollywood feature film -- because of an online contest. ... More
Former Wall Street Journal Publisher Gordon Crovitz phrased the problem facing newspapers succinctly: "Print revenue has declined much faster than online can be built up," he told the audience at the ... More
I read just now that liberal agitator MoveOn.org has attracted 3 million people to vote online for its "Obama in 30 Seconds" contest to pick which Obama advertisement gets picked for national TV.... More