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Send In Your Questions For Ask A VC With Battery Ventures' Brian O'Malley
This week on TechCrunch TV’s Ask a VC show, we have Battery Ventures partner Brian O’Malley in the studio. As you may remember, you can submit questions for our guests either in the comments or here and we’ll ask them during the show.
O’Malley leads Battery’s Seed & Early Stage practices, while focusing on investments in eCommerce, online marketplaces and internet applications. His investments include Bazaarvoice, BoostCTR, BrightEdge, Coupa, Duetto, H.BLOOM, Insitu (acquired by Boeing), J. Hilburn, Joor, HotelTonight, Peerflix (acquired by Live Universe), Serena & Lily, Skullcandy, Sociable Labs, Sosh, TradeKing, Viddy and World Golf Tour.
Prior to Battery, O’Malley spent several years at Bowstreet (acquired by IBM), as Director of West Coast Technical Sales and earlier as the company’s Technical Evangelist preaching the future of web service-based APIs. He started his career as a web developer for Motorola Computer Group while only a sophomore in college.
O’Malley has invested in a number of startups that are aiming to transform offline industries, so we’re interested to hear where he sees the next big opportunity in offline industries that are in need of transformation. And considering that O’Malley is a seed investor, we’re curious on his thoughts on AngelList’s Syndicates.
Please send us your <a href=”mailto:askavc@techcrunch.com”>questions for O’Malley here</a> or put them in the comments below!
Internet Explorer 6 Market Share Finally Falls Under 5%
The Internet Explorer 6 death watch continues, but the end is near. Microsoft’s ancient browser may still haunt web developers’ nightmares, but according to the latest data from Net Applications, its global market share has now finally dipped under 5 percent.
Even Microsoft will be quite happy to see this, especially given that, for Internet Explorer as a whole, the last month was pretty good (though it still has IE6 at 6.1 percent global market share).
While other browsers barely registered any changes in their global market share last month, all versions of Internet Explorer together now account for 57.79 percent – its highest number this year. Most of this is still driven by IE8 users, however, who account for 21.39 percent of users in Net Application’s stats and still make it the most popular browser version in its rankings. The reason for this is that Windows XP users just can’t upgrade beyond IE8 and as long as those XP machines are out there, that number isn’t going to change all that fast.
The launch of IE11 for Windows 7 and 8 is just around the corner. Microsoft’s latest browser is probably its best so far, but the IE legacy will forever be tainted by those earlier versions that got so much wrong and the fact that Microsoft has essentially abandoned them without any upgrade path beyond switching to another vendor.
While IE8 and 9 at least include some HTML5 features, IE6 predates so many of these efforts that drag-and-drop and @font-face are really the only semi-modern web technologies it supports.
Maybe now that it has fallen under 5 percent, developers can finally completely forget about it. IE8, however, and in some ways, has already become the new IE6, thanks to its lack of an update path and support for the latest web technologies.
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