Web 2 Ireland

A good link, capturing the changes occuring in the US VC community.

The Tough New Venture Market

In open-source style, Karl Fogel has made his book, Producing Open Source Software available online under an open copyright.

Toni Schneider's Blog Are Companies Really Getting Cheaper to Build?

Online networking clicks among friends / And investors sense profits from Web sites linking people

EarlyStageVC: Web 2.0 Needs Business Model 2.0

O’Reilly Radar > VC Pitches in the Web 2.0 era

Great post from Tim O’Reilly on the web2.0 investment bubble….

TechCrunch Top Five Web 2.0 Venture Capitalists

Good list…

Innovation 2.0: Why Web 2.0 companies might have to flip to avoid being flopped

food for thought……..

Check out this presentation – some great data points.

Morgan Stanley

As we prepare for the Web2.0 conference, Tim O’Reilly has a great article on “What is Web2.0″.

(btw, I always guessed Tim had Irish blood…)

Ian Kennedy of Yahoo has a great summary on Tim’s article, as well as the “web2.0 company acid test”

* Services, not packaged software, with cost-effective scalability
* Control over unique, hard-to-recreate data sources that get richer as more people use them
* Trusting users as co-developers
* Harnessing collective intelligence
* Leveraging the long tail through customer self-service
* Software above the level of a single device
* Lightweight user interfaces, development models, AND business models

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