Managed Video Goes Mainstream

Last week, I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at the inaugural Managed Video as a Service Summit, hosted by Envysion at the St. Julien Hotel in Boulder (for those of you not familiar with the concept of managed video as as service, you can read my explanation here).   There was great turn-out for the event, [...]

Crowdsourcing is a Symptom

A lot has been written lately about the age of crowdsourcing, and for good reason.  It is a shift that is changing the way many companies do business.   Recently, John Winsor, the CEO of Victors & Spoils, had a great blog post where he contended that, in the world of marketing, crowdsourcing is being driven by [...]

Managing your social network

There was a spirited conversation this morning at the Boulder Open Coffee Club about how to manage social networks in this day and age of (over?) connectivity.  It is an interesting challenge for those of us who have stuck our toe into the water on anything from Facebook to Foursquare.  Over the last decade we have [...]

An Age of Opportunity

Last week, I was lucky enough to have dinner with a few real visionaries in the digital world.  The conversation focused largely around what makes this such an exciting time to be an early stage investor or entrepreneur.  The conclusion was that we are experiencing a unique confluence of historical events. 
The first and most obvious [...]

The Tangled Web of Patent Litigation

Just to add an exclamation point to yesterday’s post about Apple’s patent claim against HTC, I thought I would share the diagram below.  It appeared in today’s New York Times and provides a sampling of the current patent litigation in the world of mobile technology.  A tangled web indeed. 

(Thanks to Miles Gerson for bringing this to my [...]

Apple and the U.S. Patent Mess

The tech world is atwitter today over news that Apple has finally unleashed its army of patent litigators on HTC.  The Apple complaint, filed this morning, claims the infringement of 20 separate patents relating to the iPhone, and appears to be aimed primarily at HTC’s Android devices.
The complaint shouldn’t come as a big surprise – [...]

changing the world…and their brand

I have to hand it to Pepsi.  No, I’m not talking about their Super Bowl ad, I’m talking about one of their new initiatives called the Pepsi Refresh Project.  The initiative is an incredible example of how a company in today’s world can combine technology, social networks and crowdsourcing to not only do good works, [...]

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