Archive for July, 2008

Free Music Search Engine: Mix Turtle

I love finding anything that includes a combination of: simple + free + music. Mix Turtle, welcome to my life.
Here is a very simple idea that works very well… a search engine that looks for songs you want and lets you listen to them for free. Not sure how the mechanics work or if [...]

KISS Your Features Away

How do you decide what features are essential to the needs of your users (and which ones will suck and fizzle away) when getting ready to launch your new idea? This is a theme that is central to many a startup and the answer is often times blurred by our own grandeur vision and features [...]

Will Barcelona be the "Palo Alto of The Mediterranean"?

I popped over to ifest 2008 the other day and sat in on a few interesting talks regarding business and innovation and the entrepreneurial scene in Europe. Both Herve Lebret and Nick Leon touched on the theme of innovation within societies and contrasted the U.S. (primarily Silicon Valley and Boston) with Europe, and tried to [...]

Recap: Mobile 2.0 Europe

Yesterday I attended the Mobile 2.0 event and got a concentrated dose of what’s happening in the mobile world here in Europe. Lots of great companies presented and there were some excellent panel discussions (mobile social media, VC perspectives, operator perspectives and open business models). The big take aways for me were:
1) We [...]