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Privacy is Dead and We Killed it

Privacy is Dead and We Killed it

By Jacob Morgan on July 30, 2014

Privacy…everyone keeps talking about it and apparently everyone is concerned with it, but does it matter? I recently watched the documentary, “Terms and Conditions may Apply,” which provides a fascinating look at how organizations such as Facebook, Google, Apple, and others have changed the way they look at and approach privacy. After watching the movie […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Apple, data, facebook, foursquare, future of work, google, iphone, linkedin, privacy, twitter | 1 Response

The Inevitable Cloud Outage: 5 Key Essentials to Safe Guard Your Application

The Inevitable Cloud Outage: 5 Key Essentials to Safe Guard Your Application

By Ofir Nachmani on June 4, 2013

A while back, I was starting up an EC2 instance on the AWS cloud when it entered an endless restart loop. All the application deployment efforts we’d made (installation and service configuration) over two weeks just went down the drain. So we called support. The support rep redirected us to his team leader who simply […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Infrastructure, Strategy | Tagged Amazon Web Services, aws, backup, business continuity, cloud computing, cloud outage, disaster recovery, enterprise 2.0, foursquare, High Availability, paypal, Service level agreement | 1 Response

Carrot Beats Stick

Carrot Beats Stick

By John Taschek on January 19, 2012

WooHoo: You’ve just unlocked the URL of Blogville Badge! With Hostess becoming as bankrupt as the nutritional information in a Ding Dong and Kodak redefining the Kodak moment of another kind of bankruptcy, I immediately thought of my childhood. Thankfully those cheerful marketing images that blanketed the store shelves were replaced by a different set […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Strategy, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Alys Woodward, Bo Lykkegaard, Constellation, foursquare, Gamification, gaming, Hawthorne Effect, idc, industry, innovation, Mayor, ray wang, social

What to do When a Tech Giant Decides to Eat Your Lunch

What to do When a Tech Giant Decides to Eat Your Lunch

By Mark Suster on June 13, 2011

  An edited version of this post originally ran on TechCrunch. This version has some additional details on a portfolio company I’ve invested in, which are disclosed below. WWDC. The annual Apple event where no real hints about what products they plan to release are floated in the public domain in advance. No private head […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged box.net, DocStoc, dropbox, facebook, foursquare, google, Startup Advice, Tech Market Analysis, techcrunch, textPlus

Mobile Devices Privacy and GPS

Mobile Devices Privacy and GPS

By Dan Morrill on May 10, 2011

We all love our smart devices that latch onto anything so we can surf the internet, do e-mail, and basically roam at will with our handy mobile devices. A bonus of this is the idea that we can also share our GPS coordinates with people through games like Foursquare and other programs that keep track […]

Posted in Technology | Tagged foursquare, Global Positioning System, gps, Mobile device, police, privacy

This Post Has Nothing to do with #SXSW

This Post Has Nothing to do with #SXSW

By Mark Suster on March 13, 2011

  This post originally appeared on TechCrunch. For the next four days if you’re in the tech industry you’re going to hear a non-stop stream of information about SXSW. It’s the time of year when many new startups are struggling to rise above all the noise and be heard. And when everybody is shouting it […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Austin, conferences, Entrepreneur Advice, foursquare, sxsw, SXSW Interactive, techcrunch, twitter

API, API, API, API, API, API

API, API, API, API, API, API

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 11, 2010

If you imagined a tech CEO or an evangelist or a pundit jumping up and down like Steve Ballmer and shouting “API, API, API, API, API…….”, it may come true faster than you ever expected. In this cloud based world where every service wants to be a platform (see my PaaS Is The Future of […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged api, Apigee, cloud services, enstratus, foursquare, linkedin, paas, paypal, soundcloud, twilio | 7 Responses

Angel Investing Skill 2 – Domain Knowledge

Angel Investing Skill 2 – Domain Knowledge

By Mark Suster on September 14, 2010

This is the second article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs).  Part 1 – Access to Great Deal Flow – is here. I have talked extensively about “social proof” in fund raising in the past.  But the problem is that most […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged angel funding, foursquare, Fred Wilson, google, Ron Conway, Startup Advice, startups, Tech Market Analysis, twitter, VC Industry | 1 Response

AbleAdvisory: Foursquare Halts Talks With Facebook, Completes Next Round

AbleAdvisory: Foursquare Halts Talks With Facebook, Completes Next Round

By Guest Authors on June 25, 2010

According to Kara Swisher, Foursquare is close to completing a funding deal with the Andressen Horowitz, the firm that "had publicly dissed the hot social location site and walked away from earlier talks.The last curve came with serious talks for Foursquare to be acquired by Facebook, which very close to happening–”one inch to the end […]

Posted in General | Tagged acquisition, facebook, foursquare, vc funding

Foursquare Check-in Etiquette

Foursquare Check-in Etiquette

By Hutch Carpenter on May 12, 2010

Anyone remember the early complaints about Twitter? That people were posting updates about what they’re eating for lunch? Robert Scoble noted this phenomenon in a blog post from last September about Twitter’s rise: It tells me that Twitter isn’t lame anymore. Remember those days when Twitter was for telling all your friends you were having […]

Posted in General | Tagged bart, facebook, foursquare, gas stations, geek, gowalla, location based services, pizza, twitter | 1 Response

Facebook Big Mac Attack – Not For Me, Thanks.  Top 10 Reasons to …

Facebook Big Mac Attack – Not For Me, Thanks. Top 10 Reasons to …

By Zoli Erdos on May 7, 2010

Oh, just what the Doctor has ordered: more junk food coming your way, left and right, from the social network that’s taking over the Internet: Facebook.  McDonald’s will be the first advertiser taking advantage of Facebook’s soon-t0-be-releasing location feature. The first reaction from most is this will kill leading location-based services: Hey Foursquare, Time To […]

Posted in Mobile, Security | Tagged android, facebook, foursquare, gowalla, location, mobility, privacy, Security, twitter | 1 Response

Reputation and Game Mechanics Are the Future of Social Software

Reputation and Game Mechanics Are the Future of Social Software

By Hutch Carpenter on April 2, 2010

I still think that reputation and game mechanics are the future of social software. Tweet by Paul Pedrazzi, VP, Strategy & Innovation at Oracle Corporation What an intriguing, and provocative, statement by Paul Pedrazzi. At first blush, I can hear your thoughts…”What? C’mon!” Which is exactly how most innovations start. The reason it’s provocative is […]

Posted in Enterprise | Tagged dachis group, enterprise 2.0, foursquare, fun, game mechanics, motivation, repurank, reputation | 1 Response

Competitors Rush to bring the Latest Timesinks to the Enterprise

Competitors Rush to bring the Latest Timesinks to the Enterprise

By Zoli Erdos on April 1, 2010

It’s nice to see competitors come together to bring the most popular timesinks productivity boosters to the Enterprise.  We’ve long been predicting Foursquare would soon hit the Enterprise, and no the wait is over, with Atlassian releasing Fourwalls. There’s a lot we can learn from this app – otherwise how would I know that @barconati […]

Posted in Just for fun | Tagged april fools day, atlassian, chatroulette, e20, enterprise 2.0, foursquare, fourwalls, humor, socialtext

Google Maps Experiment with Hotel Prices – Just Remember to Check In

Google Maps Experiment with Hotel Prices – Just Remember to Check In

By Zoli Erdos on March 23, 2010

How many times were you looking for the right hotel at the right price, close enough to your conference, customer or just a particular location? Finding the right one typically includes juggling multiple sites – hotel search, price comparisons, many with teaser prices that turn out to be unavailable, maps, reservation systems…etc.   Not for long, […]

Posted in General | Tagged foursquare, geo fatigue, geo services, google maps, gowalla, hotel search, hotels, location based services, price comparisons, search, travel | 1 Response

The Two-Year Lag from Web 2.0 to Enterprise 2.0

The Two-Year Lag from Web 2.0 to Enterprise 2.0

By Hutch Carpenter on March 17, 2010

The Enterprise 2.0 sector draws heavy inspiration from innovations in the Web 2.0 world. Indeed, the name itself, Enterprise “2.0” reflects this influence. From a product management perspective, Web 2.0, and its derivations social networking and social media are great proving grounds for features before coding them into your application. A fruitful area to review […]

Posted in Analysis, Enterprise | Tagged enterprise 2.0, foursquare, geek, gowalla, location, social networking, techcrunch50, twitter, web 2.0, wikis

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