View Article  Guy Kawasaki Talks Truemors.com

Why Truemors ? an extract from the About us section of Truemors.com

Take a note of their belief in demonstrative technology — products/solutions that enable the open exhibition and expression of information, emotions, and opinions. 

" First, call us romantics, but we believe in the democratization of information—that is, access for everyone to everything. A long time ago royalty and religious leaders had scribes. Around 600 the Chinese printed using negative reliefs. Around 1450 Johann Gutenberg combined hundreds of years of progress into the screw printing press.

Fast forward to 1985 when Apple (Macintosh), Aldus (PageMaker), and Adobe (PostScript) produced “desktop publishing.” A few years later people could create web sites. Then blogging appeared on the scene. Still, people needed a computer and a blogging tool like WordPress or TypePad to disseminate information.

As Steve Jobs would say, “There must be a better way.” Not that Truemors is in the same league as Gutenberg, Apple, Aldus, Adobe, etc., but now people just need a phone or web access to tell the world.

Second, we also believe in demonstrative technology—that is, products that enable the open exhibition and expression of information, emotions, and opinions. Where democratization implies that the many can read the content of the few, demonstrative technology enables the many to create content too. Thus, Truemors is the melding of democratization and demonstration—and you thought it was just a web site. "

View Article  Video Market Heating Up
When I was in Silicon Valley a few weeks ago one of the responses I had from a VC was, "Video is a hot space. But its been hot for a while now. So we are very selective now. You are never too late for the party, but you will have to have developed the business to a higher standard this year than you would have last year, to get our attention".  Sounds fair enough to me.

But it appears that as the announcements come faster and faster the dynamics of both what is of interest and what the values are are changing rapidly too. Microsoft bought aQuantive (at a big multiple too!). And now rumours that Google is going to buy Feedburner. That in turn seems to be increasing the temperature of the marketplace.... particularly for investments in video related businesses.

This week we should be ready for the Vquence Alpha to be released. Timing, timing, timing....
View Article  VQUENCE meets Guy KAWASAKI

I had an opportunity to meet Guy KAWASAKI last week at an AMCHAM event in HK.

 

An Apple Fellow, and now MD at Garage Technology Ventures www.garage.com , Guy makes for a compelling funny and pithy speaker.

 

I got talking to him about VQUENCE and his main comment was show people what a vquence is and also – so when do you ship ?

 

He sent me a copy of his ppt. centered around his latest book ‘The Art of the Start’ and I managed to get a picture with him “advertising” VQUENCE.

 

In conclusion he told us to 'kick butt' and after reading our white paper said " ..I could make the case that it's a very valuable service for people who are pushing out video. "

 

He also mentioned a neat company called iStockphoto.com which he is mentioning around on his travels - it's cool .

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