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from <a href="mailto:patrick@vadver.com">Patrick R. Koppula</a>Patrick Koppulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14965115801842725875noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325445.post-84794666704087512732008-10-08T19:01:00.000-07:002008-10-08T19:05:28.210-07:00Suddenly the most useful tool on the internet is a little know feature on Bankrate.com it's a rating system for places you might have deposited your money and you are not sure anymore whether you should move it. It's called Safesound. It occurs to me if we all checked it out, make a move for the safer and stopped hoarding, this crisis will blow over because the antidote to a debt crisis is lquid Patrick Koppulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14965115801842725875noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325445.post-32159551582318250062008-06-02T23:12:00.000-07:002008-06-02T23:14:15.552-07:00Wow...all this writing finally got me Forbes...as a writer. Go figure. The whole series is good...execs and analysts weighing in on Microsoft vs. Google will fall out in their neck of the woods.Patrick Koppulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14965115801842725875noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325445.post-59737647977072347032008-02-12T17:41:00.001-08:002008-02-12T18:00:03.667-08:00Microsoft buying Yahoo may be bad for data portability, I just realized. I was reading through some recent articles when I put two and two together on this topic.Most people, I suspect, don't know that while Google and Yahoo pretty freely let people import their contacts into social networking sites (and theoretically site's of any kind), Microsoft restricts this simple data portability function Patrick Koppulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14965115801842725875noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325445.post-55199066478718840882007-11-01T17:53:00.000-07:002007-11-01T18:03:11.774-07:00Speculating on Facebook's next move Nov 6th in NY... just occurred to me but don't have time to consider in detail right now. Could Facebook do any better than to launch a SocialAds (social advertising network to Google's search advertising network) AND announce that SocialAds (but not Facebook.com) would support OpenSocial. Wouldn't that put them in position to reap the benefits of OpenSocial Patrick Koppulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14965115801842725875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325445.post-31276106004056574992007-11-01T13:00:00.000-07:002007-11-24T11:39:05.629-08:00Facebook vs. the Internet...that's what I spoke with new friend David Spark about at lunch day before yesterday. If you read my posts from when the Facebook Platform launched, you know I expected this to happen, but talking it over with him I was inspired to extrapolate a little more. What is new to me is the role Google is playing in pushing this process forward. Let's review the history shall Patrick Koppulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14965115801842725875noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325445.post-12549952996944040862007-10-15T09:18:00.000-07:002007-11-24T11:41:25.859-08:00I just made a bunch of comments on a post Steve Rubel made on the "economics" of Web 2.0 where he tries to offer economic defense of his argument that "It's going to get very hard for advertiser-supported startups to get any scale when it comes to revenue.". I thought it might be useful to collect my comments here: Steve misstates his point but in the way most people misstate it for shorthand:Patrick Koppulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14965115801842725875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325445.post-88733394876086532042007-10-01T14:39:00.000-07:002007-10-01T14:57:52.427-07:00Replacing "Fame Creation" with "Fame Transfer" is the next transition for the music industry.A realization was triggered by the news of Radiohead's new album download pricing scheme: pay what you want, $1 - $100. This isn't a new idea, nor is it at all the first implementation of the idea. What's new here is that Radiohead, a band with singular brand power, is doing it. And that got me thinking..Patrick Koppulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14965115801842725875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325445.post-2247601774734045702007-09-14T18:02:00.000-07:002007-09-15T11:36:22.458-07:00James Currier (a founder of Tickle and currently of Ooga Labs ) is my hero for the week. On Wednesday we both spoke at the STIRR Founder Hacks event and James was by far the best of the three of us "seasoned" entrepreneurs who spoke. Not surprisingly he is the most seasoned, Tickle actually being a site that informed a part of the ffwd.com marketing strategy. Regardless, he had the best lock on Patrick Koppulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14965115801842725875noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325445.post-63080579477695914522007-08-29T15:42:00.000-07:002007-09-10T11:43:31.238-07:00We just reached out to the industry press for the first time and this was the result:http://newteevee.com/2007/08/23/vadver/So let me begin by saying, Liz gets it. She understands who our competition is, what sets us apart, what will be critical to driving early adoption, and even why some of our out there ideas might be good ones.I also appreciated her willingness to engage in a conversation Patrick Koppulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14965115801842725875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325445.post-14986137819592311572007-08-14T13:53:00.000-07:002007-08-14T14:54:12.655-07:00Flattery is the highest compliment, right? Well, while everybody is trying to "compliment" Apple, iLike (along with Last.FM and MOG) should be doubly flattered that Apple is "complimenting" us. It's a classic turnaround from a company that has often succeeded in be a strong second or third mover in a nascent market: great for the ego, but really a threat with little if any upside.Then again, it'sPatrick Koppulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14965115801842725875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325445.post-37999217118767603792007-07-17T11:24:00.000-07:002007-07-30T15:28:12.317-07:00I was struck this morning with a clear vision of the fundamental strategic battle going on among web technology businesses today. It allowed my to finally understand three often ignored oddities that I've had a hard time explaining away and I think provides a framework for predicting the endgame in this cycle of innovation.Oddity #1 - Yahoo and AOL are still relevant.Oddity #2 - Social networks Patrick Koppulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14965115801842725875noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325445.post-3699381672427865812007-05-31T16:17:00.000-07:002007-07-18T14:53:40.477-07:00Building a cross-platform application took on new meaning at the end of last week with the launch of Facebook Platform. In a sense what Facebook has accomplished is a tantamount exhibition of Tim Orielly's notion of "The Web As Platform", coupled with a brilliant competitive lock on, "Data...the Intel Inside". All of that is to be expected, thought they still deserve kudos for execution.What's Patrick Koppulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14965115801842725875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325445.post-44708678070608556672007-03-30T09:08:00.000-07:002007-03-30T10:41:57.228-07:00Online video is like online music part two...In part one I considered the habit of making comparisons between music and video that just don't apply. Most of the mistakes fall into this category. The flip side of this is missing comparison that they should. I think the largest gap of this type is not seeing that YouTube will follow a similar path and most likely suffer a similar fate as mp3.com Patrick Koppulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14965115801842725875noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325445.post-9673118924085331312007-03-22T23:36:00.000-07:002007-03-23T12:37:34.938-07:00Online video is like online music (mostly) because TV networks are like record labels (except when they are not), but video is not at all like audio (despite being created the same). Confusing? Such is the attempt to draw parallels between disruptions in the various entertainment industries. On a very high level digital video is repeating the history (in the Hegelian sense) of digital music (andPatrick Koppulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14965115801842725875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325445.post-25593084094933114022007-01-25T11:04:00.000-08:002007-01-30T09:44:18.885-08:00The iPhone is not for me :( That was my initial reaction to the product announced at Mac World and after trying hard for a few weeks to convince myself otherwise, my lack of interest wouldn't budge, so instead I spent the next few weeks trying to figure out why.Why is it surprising that I don't want this phone? Any one of the following facts would be sufficient evidence, but taking them all Patrick Koppulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14965115801842725875noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325445.post-37782904301697216282007-01-01T18:05:00.000-08:002007-01-01T23:49:40.968-08:00Happy New Year everybody! I usually refrain from reporting news in this space, preferring to comment on the news, or comment on other people's comments on the news. But what I want to share today needed to be kept out of the public eye and so there is no news about it to comment on...until now.I'm starting a new company!It is still stealth under the name Vadver and I invite you to visit http://Patrick Koppulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14965115801842725875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325445.post-90084834728407119472006-12-23T14:57:00.000-08:002007-01-01T16:52:34.461-08:00Merry Christmas iLike, Gcast, and GarageBand users and other music lovers (i.e future users). Actually, Christmas came a little early this year. On December 20th, 2006 iLike closed a $13.3 million dollar investment from TicketMaster! It is a high point in a way, but more importantly it is a launching pad for far greater things...like landing on the Moon on the way to Mars. We just had an offsite Patrick Koppulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14965115801842725875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325445.post-85955168469912623202006-12-08T11:50:00.000-08:002006-12-24T01:08:14.001-08:00Seems like everthing is going John (Doe, rhymes with video), these days:Om Malik just launched a new blog, NewTeeVee that aims "to cover online video from end to end and front to back."There seems to be no end in sight to the parade of "we'd be happy with one percent of YouTube's market value" companies.And now my blog has extended its focus to include all media types (i.e. video).On the other Patrick Koppulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14965115801842725875noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325445.post-57768581875453768182006-11-13T13:22:00.000-08:002006-11-14T11:04:32.613-08:00Okay, so I know I've been a little heavy on the boosterism lately, but come on, can you blame me? We've really been rocking it recently. We have the pictures and video to prove it. (That's me in the hat)Here's another example. This blog was noticeably silent on GooTube. But that doesn't mean I wasn't thinking about it. I was thinking about it a lot, like starting to lose sleep over it. I hadn't Patrick Koppulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14965115801842725875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325445.post-71717668555060124002006-11-07T16:50:00.000-08:002006-11-07T23:59:34.137-08:00What's the difference between the best music you've never heard and the best music you have heard? Apparently the answer to that question is not obvious, as evidenced by the recent article by Techcrunch writer, Marshall Kirkpatrick.Quote Marshall:"while many of us may be interested in discovering new music similar to our existing tastes - the lower production quality and lack of familiarty [sic] Patrick Koppulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14965115801842725875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325445.post-52454234724771349812006-10-30T17:57:00.000-08:002006-11-02T22:58:56.097-08:00Last week we launched iLike.com, a long jab right into the future of music discovery. Today we launched the GarageBand Faceoff, a right hook square in the jaw of music promotion, knocking loose any preconceptions you still have about the music industry:Thought you had to choose between grassroots empowerment and mass media distribution? The GarageBand Faceoff has two bands chosen by the public atPatrick Koppulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14965115801842725875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325445.post-9030017900533514752006-10-25T18:28:00.000-07:002006-11-02T17:56:50.239-08:00Congratulations to the iLike Team! Yesterday they launched into beta...iLike.com. As you might expect from my gushing about the team up there in Seattle, they've exceeded even my wild dream for how something like this could work. Sometime when I'm not so busy, I'll try to biograph the ideas involved, but right now I've got a radio show to premiere.For now, you'll just hafta be content with being Patrick Koppulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14965115801842725875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325445.post-1161907257459546492006-09-15T16:59:00.000-07:002006-10-26T17:09:11.579-07:00Why is Spiral Frog a neat development but ultimately irrelevant? Because it misses the point...or rather three points:Apple sells music so they can sell iPods - iTMS is a service that makes the iPod, nearly everyone's favorite mp3 player, that much nicer and oh btw it locks you into the Apple ecosystem (note: I'm note sure what the stas are, but I can't believe that any more than 5% of music on Patrick Koppulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14965115801842725875noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325445.post-1161886357000663502006-08-14T11:01:00.000-07:002006-10-26T17:23:10.716-07:00And we're off! The new iLike project (was code named iJam) just got funded. I probably won't say much more about it here until it launches but you can follow the progress at the team blog. Suffice to say, I'm very excited to see where these guys (some of the best ajax coders in the world!) go with my little sketch on how to discover music (or frankly anything) socially.Patrick Koppulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14965115801842725875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325445.post-1152142997963379372006-07-03T16:42:00.000-07:002006-10-26T17:09:11.460-07:00Kudos to GarageBand.com Advisory Board Chair, Sir George Martin, for being open enough to new technology and self effacing enough to completely rework some of his earlier Beatles masterworks for Cirque du Soliel's new show, Love. Eighty years old and still on the verge...In other Beatles tidbits:Did you know that the Beatles are the single most cited influence among GarageBand members?Have you Patrick Koppulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14965115801842725875noreply@blogger.com0