Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media
Social feedreader and Facebook application Blogfriends has closed down. You can read their announcement here.
This is a great shame. I have been a big fan of the service since it launched, it has brought efficiency, variety and serendipity to my feedreading to the extent that I have pretty much stopped using any other [...]
I have written before about how whilst the growth of the leading socnets is flattening niche socnets seems to be accelerating and the success of Ning is further evidence of that trend.
These charts from Techcrunch tell the story.
In both traffic and socnets they host they have grown 5-6x in a year, and a quick bit [...]
Thanks to those of you who pointed out the errors that were appearing in the text of my blog posts. They were being caused by Sribefire, the post editor I use. They have just released an upgrade which has hopefully eliminated the problem.
Please let me know if you see any other problems.
I’m a [...]
Over on Snipperoo Ivan is pushing the idea that the destination site is on it’s way out. The idea follows on nicely, of course, from his obsession with widgets, but as usual I think he might be on to something.
Ivan’s main point is that many, many people use search engines to get to sites, [...]
Scoble blogged an interview with Mitchell Kutzman, partner at Hummer Winblad under the headline VC admits he hates boring powerpoints. I echo that. Scoble wrote:
At PodTech the CFO told me to be quiet when I told them that their Powerpoints should look like Steve Jobs did them. He wanted the boring “pack tons [...]
In my experience board packs (i.e. the pack of information sent by a company to the board prior to each board meeting) could often be better and are sometimes the source of conflict between management and their non-exec directors. That happens because as documents they have their own history and inertia to change which [...]
I attended an NMK seminar on vendor relationship management (VRM) last night (thanks to Ian Delaney for organising a great event). This is an area I have been getting excited about recently, and I posted some early thoughts here (the comments are also worth a read).
Unfortunately I had to leave the seminar early so I’m [...]
A couple of weeks ago Alan Patrick wrote an interesting post on socnet usage patterns. Back in November in a post on the essence of social networks I wrote about the difference between object-centred socnets (e.g. Flickr, Delicious) and ego-centred socnets (e.g. Myspace, Facebook, bebo) and commented that:
most of the activity on ego-centred sites [...]
The Sunday Times had a feature on the AOL Bebo deal this weekend. It contained the following passage:
What intrigues analysts is that Bebo looks cheap in comparison with the
valuations placed on Facebook and MySpace.
News Corp spent $580m to buy MySpace in 2005. The site is No 1 in America and
analysts value it at between [...]
Phil Wilkinson wrote an interesting post on data portability today. He is of course thinking about things from a social shopping perspective, but his points are relevant for all social applications.
I think by now most of us are sold on the idea that we should be able to extract our data from sites like Facebook [...]
