Concentration once again. It looks like advertising on all possible media is the number one priority for our GYM friends. There are public anounces or non public certified rumors almost once a week about staisfying Google, Yahoo or Microsoft’s appetite for startups.
This time Google makes one step in the promising in feeds ads business by buying (at a rumored high $100M) Feedburner.
The trend is that the GYM are rapidly becoming powerful omnimedia (web, mobile, feeds, mobile, physical…) ad farms, transitionning more and more from pure web to physical world.
The advertising space is really very dynamic, interesting to observe and will be the souce of a lot of innovations, business models and acquisitions in the coming months & years.
Technorati Tags: google, feedburner, acquisition
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Well, in fact a link to the summary since Rod McLaren did a good job here!
He raises a key question for the success of mobile widgets which is openness.
The answer (in the comments) is that Webwag mobile will be completely free and open to any developer that wants to create widgets (same as the web).
With simple html/scripting skills, anybody should have simple widgets running in minutes!
Technorati Tags: momo, mobidgets, webwag
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For the London citizens, try to drop by monday evening to get a chance to see Webwag mobile widgets live!
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Well, I’ve had the news for a while now but waited until this became public to reveal it, even on les echos.
So, my old company has been sold to a small industry player at a really ridculous value, meaning that my shares are now worth nothing :’(
Anyway, I certainly won’t give lessons, knowing how complex it is to set-up a company, grow it and make it a profitable business. I will however give some clues about why I think IN-FUSIO failed.
- The “I want it all” syndrom: IN-FUSIO had the will to be:
- A mobile games service provider
- A mobile games technology provider
- A top ranked mobile games publisher
- On all continents, all technologies…
Seems ambitious, with interest conflicts? It is. When you’re small, you can’t perform well on so many different (even if complementary) segments. Even worse, how do you can you have your competitors adopt your technologies (a game engine in this case).
- Mobile games not taking up as expected: The mobile games market overall in Europe and US has been growing at a much lower rate and with lower prices than expected.
- Big players with big bucks: All the game industry players are coming to mobile with huge means, EA, Ubisoft… These guys are in an industry that is bigger than the movier industry, if they have decided they want to compete in the mobile space, the small players stand with a few chances.
Anyway, good luck to the new entity and to the ex-IF employees!
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So, with no more speech and merchandising, here are the first round results:
Nicolas Sarkozy: 31,1 - Impressive Score!
Ségolène Royal: 25,8 - Not very big but she’s in the second round.
François Bayrou: 18,5 - Not too bad but not as good as expected.
Jean-Marie LePen: 11,5 - Much lower than 2002, a good thing.
Thanks http://twitter.com/rodrigo1971 
where you can find all estimations
I’ll update the post with the real scores at 8:30 but in the end, the two favorites are still in the race.
Update done @ 20:16
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