subscribeEurope finances the google killer search engine.
Saturday, July 21, 2007
LOL LOL LOL
Stefan Glaenzer the chairman of last.fm and one of smartest angel investors in Europe thinks that
I believe he is wrong. How about 10 years behind? That sounds better to me.
Theseus is a German based project that just got funded by the German government by $165 million. The project aims to build "the world’s most advanced multimedia search engine for the next-generation Internet. Theseus was inspired by a perceived need by European countries to challenge American hegemony on the internet by Google".
How typical of Europe. We are so used to wasting government money or just sit on our butts and complain about no government support instead of building things, trying to hit existing markets, invent new ones, fail, or succeed.
But it gets even worse. France also wants to build the next google! France is discussing a similar subsidy plan with the European Commission that is aiming to give $112 million to a French Google competitor named Quaero.
If you look behind the irony of this post, there is very sad fact. There's no light at the end of the long tunnel. We live in our small world and refuse to face the facts. Here in Europe entrepreneurship is dealt with bureaucracy and is discouraged, +plus we refuse to understand why google or anyone else got so big while we try to fund innovation to be born!
Marc Andreessen has once again hit the nail right on the head:
True innovation will rize from tech povera startups. This is what history taught(?) us.
Stefan Glaenzer the chairman of last.fm and one of smartest angel investors in Europe thinks that
Europe is two and a half years behind the US
I believe he is wrong. How about 10 years behind? That sounds better to me.
Theseus is a German based project that just got funded by the German government by $165 million. The project aims to build "the world’s most advanced multimedia search engine for the next-generation Internet. Theseus was inspired by a perceived need by European countries to challenge American hegemony on the internet by Google".
How typical of Europe. We are so used to wasting government money or just sit on our butts and complain about no government support instead of building things, trying to hit existing markets, invent new ones, fail, or succeed.
But it gets even worse. France also wants to build the next google! France is discussing a similar subsidy plan with the European Commission that is aiming to give $112 million to a French Google competitor named Quaero.
If you look behind the irony of this post, there is very sad fact. There's no light at the end of the long tunnel. We live in our small world and refuse to face the facts. Here in Europe entrepreneurship is dealt with bureaucracy and is discouraged, +plus we refuse to understand why google or anyone else got so big while we try to fund innovation to be born!
Marc Andreessen has once again hit the nail right on the head:
And way off in the distance, $165 million is tossed into an incinerator...
True innovation will rize from tech povera startups. This is what history taught(?) us.
The difference between A-List bloggers and the rest...
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
This is the second paragraph of one of Robert Scoble's blog posts (A new journalism tool? Twitter?):
Using my Nokia N95 cell phone, and TwitterGram. I have a phone number to call, hear a beep, and can record. Then I take a photo and upload that automatically to Flickr. Finally I get back to my computer, write a blog post, copy and paste some HTML, and we have a nice set of reviews.
No wonder why Robert is up there on the A-list.
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