Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Sramana Mitra on Strategy

Sramana Mitra on Strategy

Deal radar 2008: Motionbox

Posted: 18 Jun 2008 12:27 PM CDT

Motionbox is an online video sharing service based in New York City. The brainchild of Chris O' Brien and Andrew Wason, MotionBox was dubbed a Youtube clone. It seems to have some interesting features though, and may be a reasonably priced acquisition for a larger player with distribution looking for an online video angle.

Towards Personalization: Strands Founder Francisco Martin (Part 3)

Posted: 18 Jun 2008 01:59 AM CDT

SM: Had you already built an initial version of the software by the time you received your first round of funding?

FM: At that point and time we had launched our first version of Recommender as an online service. We separated the Recommender engine from the final product since the very beginning. However, the best way to show off the Recommender is to tie it together with a consumer facing product. We built the music recommendation tools as a capability demonstration.

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