From The New York Times:
SMALL-BUSINESS GUIDE: The New Rules of Angel Investing
The deal makers still exist, but they are pickier and less tolerant of risk.
Archive for October, 2009
The New Rules of Angel Investing
October 30, 2009It’s good to see the price of spam increase
October 30, 2009From The New York Times:
Web Marketer Ordered to Pay Facebook $711 Million in Anti-Spam Case
Facebook sued Sanford Wallace for accessing users’ accounts without their permission and sending phony posts and messages.
Visiting PIE
October 29, 2009
Blazers to stream all games? I will gladly pay.
October 29, 2009http://blog.oregonlive.com/siliconforest/2009/10/playing_with_blazers_new_onlin.html
I’ll pay for it (it needs to be all games, not just the subset on local broadcast TV).
From the Oregonian’s Mike Rogoway:
The real goal is to expand this for Comcast’s exclusive games for fans who aren’t in Comcast’s service territory or aren’t subscribers. Mensah told me Comcast is contemplating the idea in several markets, and has indicated the service might be available at the start of 2010.
Reva: The Tiny Leader of the EV Pack
October 28, 2009The Tiny Leader of the Pack
Reva, which has been making stubby electric cars for eight years, may be the dark horse of the industry.
Really cool fully electric motorcycles made in US (Oregon even)
October 26, 2009Newspaper web audience grows while revenue declines
October 26, 2009An average 74 million people visited a newspaper Web site each month in the third quarter of 2009, equaling just under 40% of all active U.S. Internet users, according to the Newspaper Association of America, citing research performed by Nielsen Online.This is the most unique visitors recorded since the NAA and Nielsen began tracking newspaper Web site audiences in 2004; the previous record was 73.3 million in the first quarter of 2009.
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On the other hand, this impressive growth in audience only serves to highlight newspapers' continuing inability to monetize online audiences at anywhere near the rate of their legacy print products in their heyday.
Total newspaper online advertising revenues have declined for six straight quarters through the second quarter of 2009, according to the NAA. They are likely to continue declining in the third quarter — in stark contrast to the 8% increase in audience size.
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=116036
Classic Portland Weather
October 26, 2009
Inside the App Economy
October 23, 2009These are such early days, no one knows exactly how big the app economy is. Companies make money from selling apps, from ads within apps, and from selling digital goods used in apps. Add it up and analysts figure it’s at least a $1 billion market today, headed for $4 billion by 2012. Not bad for a brand-new business…
The game makers compete for users across all sorts of technology platforms. The big targets are Facebook, with more than 300 million members, and Apple’s App Store, with more than 50 million iPhone and iPod touch users…
The rapid growth and sharp rivalries have drawn comparisons to the early days of Web pioneers such as Amazon.com (AMZN) and eBay (EBAY). One significant difference is that the apps business has virtually no barriers to entry, meaning it is hard for any company to maintain a lead. Today there are thousands of small developers who crank out apps that don’t make a dime.
Visiting the Leftbank building
October 21, 2009
