Thanks to Dennis Howlett, I picked up news of Fred Wilson’s blog post about Twitter earlier today. His post is about the potential business models for Twitter. I’ll write my own views about Twitter’s potential later, but for now, I’d like to discuss ‘business models’ vs ‘scale’. In his post, Fred states that he agrees [...]

Rather than type what I think, I’d like to share with you, my thoughts about the real difference between Europe and the Valley, as articulated by Eric Eldon on a TechCrunch post.
This the best version I’ve read to date. My favourite quote is ‘think Hollywood for geeks’.
Why is anybody comparing an entire continent to a [...]

I was going to post this as a comment on TechCrunch but my response was getting too long. It may prove beneficial to some of my readers anyway.
The TechCrunch post to which I’m commentating on is entitled “Dear VCs: Look at the idea, not the postcode”
Here’s the letter which forms the basis for Mike’s post
Hi [...]

Thanks to Steve Clayton for the link on Twitter. I’ve always said that Facebook isn’t a social network like Bebo or MySpace. Facebook is more of a platform/technology which we use to connect with people we know within our network. We can then build communities using our social network.

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft Corp. is in [...]