Web 2.0 venture capital increasing, but real success hard to find…
“A Dow Jones research subsidiary just published a report on Web 2.0 venture capital investing, and it contains a few surprising finds. Out of $13 billion in VC investments in the first half of 2006, only $262 million went to Web 2.0 companies.Before going any further, let me clarify what the report counts as a [...]
Web application project, part I: In the beginning
I’m not one for giving up, especially when I’ve committed time & money to something I believe in. For over four years, I’ve been (both directly and indirectly) working on developing a range of web applications for creative businesses. Initially, much of my effort was simply thinking through the idea and looking for ways of [...]
When it comes to the environment, not in my back yard!
So you let your dog loose. Running across a mist-shrouded field on some autumn morning. He disappears into the distant trees emerging eerily from the blanket of fog to tend to his early morning ablutions. Moments later he re-emerges, and the two of you return home.
An act repeated not just once that morning in your [...]
When newspapers, ‘blogging, recycling and wireless access meet…
For those that know me well, they know that I like to follow trends. I love to explore patterns, especially those of a technological slant, and even more especially if there’s a social connection, which there inevitably is.
So futurology is my thing. And exploring socio-technological trends is where I’m to be found most happy prognosticating [...]

