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Bernard Moon

Bernard Moon is an entrepreneur and advises various startups, such as GoingOn (B2B social media platform), Innotive (interactive multimedia platform), Fidgt (Web 2.0 address book), and Fan Media Network (citizen journalism for sports).

Posts by Bernard Moon

U.S. tech trends for 2008

Bernard Moon | December 20th, 2007 | 25 Comments »

A couple of months ago, my wife and I visited Seoul, South Korea—a trip that inspired me to come up with a list of technology predictions for 2008 and beyond. The land that brought us bottle service, massive multiplayer online role playing, and paid online casual gaming serves as a good place to consider emerging trends…

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Life after Facebook, and the coming “Dark Period”

Bernard Moon | October 4th, 2007 | 15 Comments »

Recently, I’ve felt like Bill Murray in “Groundhog Day” hitting his alarm clock and rolling out of bed over and over again. I’d seen it before. The same thing happened with MySpace a few years ago, and with Friendster before that, only Facebook has taken social networking to new segments of society.

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Funny or Die — and the challenge to the Long Tail

Bernard Moon | May 10th, 2007 | 12 Comments »

A marriage between Silicon Valley and Hollywood talent led to the birth last month of a video start-up Funny or Die. What took YouTube to do in six months, Funny or Die did in six days.
Its traffic exploded after the release of its first 2-minute clip, The Landlord, starring Will Ferrell. The video drew [...]

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