As Media & Entertainment continues to try to innovate to support new platforms like Facebook, Twitter (and Google), there continues to be new research that resurrects mobility, i.e., cell phones.

It’s not just the iPhones that are driving your studio I.T. divisions insane, but if you really want to go global with your media footprint, you no longer can ignore developing hard for mobile platforms.

The mobile runway is open, but will be getting very crowded; which is okay, because there’s no longer a walled garden - or to use my ‘runway’ metaphor, a secured airport - so there’s plenty of room to take-off with mobile.

• 10x number of new mobile devices each computing cycle (smatphones, Kindles, Nooks, Couriers, tablets, netbooks)
• Mobile adoption curve is 8x steeper than desktop
• iPhone + iTouch ecosystem fastest hardware user growth in tech history

After the jump, the Morgan Stanley presentation from Mary Meeker’s Web 2.0 presentation…

In the spirit of covering topics that my readers are interested in, today’s blog topic comes from a good friend and former colleague of mine (Ed) who wrote to me recently asking if I could write a “how-to” article of sorts about how to navigate the angel investor waters. In these challenging economic times, coupled with the complex landscape found in the venture and private equity worlds, angel investors occupy a very worthwhile niche within the start-up ecosystem. They offer a combination of funding (at lower amounts) and hands-on assistance that the majority of bigger money shops can’t or don’t offer - although as we’ve read recently a handful of them are starting to set up “seed bet” funds.