Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media
This is the second post inspired by Fred Wilson’s 2007: The end of the page view. This one is about widgets, the atomisation of content and the separation of value and revenue.
To take a definition from the Apple Store, widgets are:
mini-applications that let you perform common tasks and provide you with fast access to information
They [...]
Fred Wilson wrote a great post about the increasing problems with page views as a metric for websites. His words have stimulated two post ideas for me. Next I will write about widgets and the new challenges for VCs investing in web2.0 companies, but today I want to stay on the topic of measurement.
Much has been written about [...]
As many of you know I love ‘Second Life gets real’ stories. As part of our 21st century Christmas I was wandering around Second Life yesterday with my dad and I was struck by a few things about the game Tringo. Tringo is a popular multi-player skill based casual game that was developed within SL. [...]
That’s all from me now until the middle of next week.
I hope Santa brings you something nice.
Thanks for reading.
Nic
What is it with us Brits and agencies?
They are everywhere in this country, much more so than in the US, for example.
I`ve been feeling it most in advertising through our investment in Buy.At, and estate agents have been figuring prominently in my thoughts about the property sector (of which more below and in a later [...]
After yesterday’s rather cerebral post these passages might help ground things a bit.
This sentence is probably redundant, but if not it is well overdue. At the highest level, when I talk about Enterprise 2.0 I am talking about enterprises using of social software, like blogs, wikis and social bookmarks.
These two sentences from the FastForward blog help explain what enterprise [...]
I’m pleased to see that Sam Sethi and Mike Butcher have moved the work they used to do at TechcruchUk to a new home - Vecosys. (You can view their profiles here - not sure how recent Sam’s photo is though….)
Good work guys, and good luck with it. We need you out there beating the drum for the [...]
The inspiration for this post was Dion Hinchcliffe’s review of enterprise2.0 in 2006. He cites the blog of Harvard Professor Andrew McAfee who posts a lot of intelligent thoughts about enterprise2.0. It caught my attention when he said enterprise2.0 is about:
Emergent Structures, Rather than Imposed Ones
This fits well with my notion of enterprise2.0 being about the adoption [...]
I am a fan of using off the shelf sofware for managing internal processes wherever possible. Custom development nearly always comes back to haunt you in the end, tempting as it might be for talented programmers to believe that for them it will be different. Requirements
change, maintenance becomes a chore, and the solution gets brittle. [...]
There has been a lot of talk about reviews recently. I’m a big fan, the web is a great efficiency tool, but it lacks the personal touch of a (decent) shop keeper and reviews go some way to solving that problem. That much is clear from the way they increase conversion rates.
There are still some [...]
