Blog of Mehrdad Piroozram

Widgets und Apps - Eine strategische Metabetrachtung

Letzte Woche habe ich einen Artikel mit Joel bei Gründerszene veröffentlicht , der sich mit Widget und Apps aus einer Metaperspektive beschäftigt.

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O'Reilly Radar

API Strategies

by Lawrence Coborn (sexywidget blog)

 

Web 2.0 Summit / internet Trends / Mary Meeker

Web 2.0 Summit - Mary Meeker

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Amazon finances S3 User

This is a cool modell to setup a portfolio. Smart Move! Amazon is doing a good job again!

Animoto one of the second wave widget start-ups in us got financing by amazon. They are S3 users as well. This an other modell to setup tech portfolios and technical due dilligence will be delivered by the investors ;-)

This is an other major new way within the investor space, after bay partner´s facebook only fund about 100$mil and KPBC 100$mil for iPhone Widgets this year.

Would love to know the size of the "S3 Fund"!

via mashable:

Animoto: When Using Amazon Web Services Gets You Funding

Btw: I am lead angel investor of animoto´s  european competitor, the german imageloop (via iSteps Widget Ventures).

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Mehrdad Piroozram

my posts about that topic:

July 11, 2007:  Fund per eco-system! Why not?

Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco

Tuesday 22th, first expo day and night:

had a good talk with a us based widget company we gonna invest in. Will write more about in may.

Was at the clearspring and rockyou party in the evening and met lots good widget people there.
Had a good japanise dinner with view web 2.0 people after that.

widgets are realy discussed everywhere and slide.com, rockyou, clearspring and gigya are definitly on the top of the widget wave. the us player are fare away from the european player and they play it realy fast. in the same time
the combinations of traffic, content and transaction exchange challenges my european friends, they still think to much in 1.0 rules.

here a sfo party picture :-)

Red Herring Malta 2008

Red Herring (8)
Originally uploaded by Matt Colebourne

Right back from Malta, after a quick day trip joinig RED HERRING 100.

Had some quick chats with view friends an companies and saw a good widget company as well :-)

Gratulations to our friends Ramin and John blauarbeit/portal united, SSP, webjam, ...

Cheers

Mehrdad Piroozram

Cebit 2008 Trendforum

update:
Related LINKS:
- Speaker Profil
- Short Speaker Profil
- Impression

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- Berichterstattung auf Portel.de
- Vorberichterstattung auf Xonio.com (Hennings Handy-Welt)

QUOTES:

Referent John Maeda: "The relationship between more and less is that you want more when you (...) [can] enjoy - but you want less when it hurts. (...) Simplicity is about living life with more enjoyment and less pain."

Nicholas Carr in seinem Vortrag "The Big Switch": "(...) If you look at the statistics you see how incredibly inefficient IT has become. (...) You can drive down the price of IT dramatically (...)."

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Cya Mehrdad Piroozram

Myspace API

Hi,

I am departing to london for the myspace api presentation. Will tell you more later.

They start in San Francisco this week ...

"...In other words, the night MySpace started kissing up to the widget makers with tasty burgers and big techie hugs."

full Story:
http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080206/myspaces-san-francisco-debut-in-living-color/

OMD 2007

Back from my visit at the OMD (focus on online ads) in Düsseldorf with some brief impressions:

• The Widgets-story is arriving in Germany
• No German Widget ad modell on air right now
• The american web 2.0 ad sellers are not on the radar of web 1.0 sellers
• People learn to accept Myspace in Germany but all prefer facebook
• Doubleclick is good prepared

Cya

Mehrdad