Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media
In the last week or so I’ve read two posts which stress the importance of personality on social media sites. First Danah Boyd’s essay on why Myspace won out over Friendster has a whole section which describes how Myspace founder Tom Anderson was a nice guy and popular with his members whereas Friendster founder Jonathan [...]
A week ago Dan Greenberg wrote a post on Techcrunch which describes how to game YouTube to make videos go viral. This has created quite a storm - check out the 493 comments for yourself to get a full feel for the passion, but as Alan Patrick points out (and thanks for the tipoff to [...]
I have blogged a couple of times on the one internet versus two question, and it seems the debate is still raging - Alan Patrick wrote a great post on the subject last Sunday over on Broadstuff.
There are a couple of things I want to pull out from that post. Firstly his concise statement of [...]
Regular readers will know I have been pondering the question of what people are actually doing during the hours they spend on social networks each week. My earlier posts are here, here and here.
I think this will be the last post on the subject, and this little thought journey has led me to the conclusion [...]
Carlotta Perez has long had a strong influence on my thinking, and a key part of that is the belief that the organisational structures and cultures that were optimal in the past may not be best going forward. She argues persuasively that the command and control mode of organisation that characterised the most successful firms [...]
A couple of weeks ago I posted some details on Facebook’s new advertising platform. I described what they are doing, said it was smart that they are trying to leverage the trust/friend relationships in the site, but warned that the execution would be difficult.
The key risk, as highlighted in the comments, and also by Alan [...]
Thanks to Nnamdi again my understanding of what is actually going on under the hood on social networks is on the increase. This learning by writing is one of the things I like most about blogging.
In a comment yesterday Nnamdi pointed me to Fred Stutzman’s blog. Fred is a really insightful thinker on the whole [...]
According to the Economist this week:
In the first half of this year the increase in consumer spending (in actual dollar terms) in China and India added more to global GDP growth than that in America.
It seems the term ‘emerging markets’ is increasingly a misnomer.
Yesterday I was wondering what people actually do on social networks. Now we have an answer, at least a partial one, thanks to a comment from Nnamdi which pointed to this research from North Carolina University on Facebook usage.
For students, who make a up a large part of the Facebook user base apparently:
The most [...]
This is a question that has been pre-occupying me for a couple of days now, and it doesn’t seem like there are any really good answers.
It is important because it goes to the sustainability of social networks - as individual companies and as a nascent industry. As with any new web service there is an [...]
