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Second Life

I haven’t talked about this yet but I love Second Life and the way the edges between virtual worlds and real worlds are blurring.
Now an Amazon store has opened
And this weekend Dell opened a real store in Dallas!!!

Posted on July 31st, 2006 under Comment, News, Web2.0. Comments: None

More on Social Networks business models

Since my last post I have learned a few things:
1) MySpace is flying - traffic wise - and has passed Yahoo! and Google in terms of page views. See Jeff Clavier for all the good news there. Although some claim that MySpace’s design produces a large number of extra page views - maybe 2-3 times as [...]

Posted on July 31st, 2006 under Comment, MySpace, Web2.0. Comments: None

Social network business models and value - Bebo and Myspace

In the wake of the Benchmark Bebo deal and Myspace NewsCorp sometime before that I have been thinking about what these companies are worth.
On the one hand they have A WHOLE LOT OF TRAFFIC - so there is unquestionably some value there. The question, is how much?
Now I’m an old fashioned guy when it comes [...]

Posted on July 27th, 2006 under Comment, MySpace, Social networks, Web2.0. Comments: 2

Trust and certificates

The promised post on trust awaits your perusal below.
In what is starting to be a tradition in this blog lets start by postulating what trust might be (and I’m talking in the very specific context of web trust systems - there is a very interesting wider debate on trust in society which I’ve blogged about [...]

Posted on July 12th, 2006 under Comment. Comments: None

More on Web2.0 models

This has been a big week for us - spin out from Caz and merger with Prelude completed. Office move started, and ongoing…..
All good fun and very exciting. I might have managed to have a few beers on Friday as well. And then a barbecue at Bob Hook’s house on Saturday for all the new [...]

Posted on July 6th, 2006 under Comment, Web2.0. Comments: None