Re: UKNM: anyone got capital?

[Clay Shirky]

> A number of things

> 

> 1. The amount of capital hasn't been as significant for the usual

> reasons [snip]


This is the best assessment of the NM business climate in the UK I've

seen yet - thanks for this.


> We seem to have a disproportionately small number of "great ideas"

> but they can still happen, viz: Orchestream (nerd technology),

> Moreover (biz e-publishing). And when we do have blockbusters, Keith

> Teare's RealNames and a couple of others, we take them to the

> action, somewhere in the Valley.


The weird thing about this is that I know more New Yorkers than

Londoners who get how important the UK market has become. Everyone on

this list should be getting down on their knees and thanking whatever

gods they worship that Freeserve has upended the market, since it

validates the British internet industry as more than just the

easternmost ecommerce outlet for Silicon Valley.


Britain has already lost ground here - the biggest British search

engine is Yahoo, the biggest British auction site is eBay, the biggest

British bookstore is Amazon, and the biggest UK-based site is run by

the BBC. When the Government can create the most popular home-grown

site going, you know private industry has coming catching up to do.


> 3. Do we have the resources and support networks that are taken for

> granted? London isn't yet great at networking. NY now has NYNMA running

> events virtually nightly; 


Being a transplanted Silicon Alley-ite, I gotta say that whats missing

is not just a London NYNMA but a London WWWAC - a place not just for

marketers but for developers as well, and for new arrivals trying to

find their way around. London needs a mailing list with the necessary

mass of thousands of readers to actually affect the way business is

done when new information needs to be disseminated.


Where do developers hang out? Is there a list for

techies/html'ers/designers akin to UKNM anywhere?


-clay 

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