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August 29, 2007

The List - August 29

Thelist Every week we run across a number of articles that catch our eye. As a regular feature, we round them up for a little something we call The List:

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August 26, 2007

"It's Rod Stewart on line 2. He's calling about the term sheet."

Given that Israeli venture capital is relatively staid both in terms of business models and investment focus. So it's always nifty to hear about people in the biz trying out much more inventive ideas.

For example:

A boutique London investment bank, Ingenious Media PLC, is financing comeback albums. Last month, it signed UB40, a reggae band that had a No. 1 hit in 1988 with the song "Red Red Wine." Other artists working on CDs for Ingenious include veteran rocker Peter Gabriel, and the techno punk band the Prodigy.

The firm, which specializes in media and entertainment deals, pays for the acts' music production, marketing and CD distribution. Its partners came up with the idea to start two funds to back faded groups three years ago. It has raised $79 million.

Fans often fill up concert venues to hear older acts perform their hits, but they typically shun their new record releases. Ingenious figured with the music industry suffering its worst downturn ever, record companies were reducing spending -- and some veteran acts would be eager for more support.

A different way of skinning a cat to be sure. Which leads to the obvious question: which has-been musical act would you like to fund?

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August 23, 2007

Great ideas for Internet startups

Somehow, I can actually see people brainstorming like this...


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August 22, 2007

The List - August 22

Thelist Every week we run across a number of articles that catch our eye. As a regular feature, we round them up for a little something we call The List:

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August 15, 2007

The List - August 15

Thelist Every week we run across a number of articles that catch our eye. As a regular feature, we round them up for a little something we call The List:

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August 12, 2007

Counting the Web

CountingThe other day, I saw that Roi had posted an item about defining Web 3.0. As it turns out, I've been doing a lot of research lately on the Semantic Web (which is more or less the best candidate for the Web 3 label), and I began to sigh.

Yes folks, here we go again.

For the past two years or so I've had I don't know how many conversations along the lines of, "what is Web 2.0?" or, "there's no such thing as Web 2.0" or, "isn't Web 2.0 a big bubble?"

The thought of having to start all over again with Web 3 just fills me with dread. It also got me to thinking, why Web 3.0? What happened to Web 2.5? Or Web 1.5 for that matter?

I think you guys can see where this is going, but the next logical step was to get on the Google and see where you go when you start counting Web. And here's what I found:

Whew. Now that that's done, I think I'm going back to web 0.5 and be done with it.

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August 09, 2007

The List - August 9

Thelist Every week we run across a number of articles that catch our eye. As a regular feature, we round them up for a little something we call The List:

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August 03, 2007

The List - August 3

Thelist Every week we run across a number of articles that catch our eye. As a regular feature, we round them up for a little something we call The List:

Posted by Shai Tsur on August 03, 2007 at 01:51 PM in The List | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)