The folks at Chinwag were kind enough to ask me to chair a panel on the topic of freeconomics last night. I’ve written extensively about ‘free’ as a business model extensively before, but to recap the argument for free is that more and more goods are being delivered digitally, the marginal cost of delivering [...]
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There has been an interesting debate unfolding on Techcrunch over the last week on the future of interent advertising. The debate covered both search and display advertising, but I’m going to focus only on the display side of the story here, as that is the one that is important to the vast majority of [...] Let me start with an admission – I have never been an Apple fan. My issues stem from my time working at my dad’s computer rentals business – we used to rent computers for as little as one day and were constantly moving them around the country, changing memory configurations, swapping [...] This article from Slate captures the problems with the games industry brilliantly. It describes how despite record sales of around $32bn last year all the leading games publishers are now losing money (including Activision-Blizzard, owners of World of Warcraft). Then comes the (obvious) explanation: So how can publishers lose money amid such incredible sales [...] This is the latest in a series of notes from Facebook which show how seriously they are taking realtime. From their (I think excellent) response to all the negative feedback about the new redesign: With the recent home page changes, we’re trying to present the right balance between what’s happening right now and [...] The market for mobile display advertising is still small, according to eMarketer. As of March last year their estimate was that the market size for 2008 would be $142m and for this year $338m. It is a safe bet that between March last year and now those forecasts have come down. This tells me [...] In my perennial search for the NEXT BIG THING I have recently been writing about shared data services and realtime search. This morning I find the two spaces might be coming together. Salesforce.com’s Service Cloud, perhaps one of the best examples of a service which shows the potential for sharing data, has announced that [...] This morning I discovered Zimbio the second fastest growing ‘member community destination’. Hat tip to cnet and Nielsen. Zimbio is a content site that mixes UGC and professionally produced content, using proprietary technology to filter and classify stories and help users find relevant content. In their own words: Zimbio seamlessly blends the best of [...] If you ever doubted the pace of change and therefore the need for innovation and startups this video is full of great factoids for you. My favourite: It is estimated that a weeks worth of the New York Times contains more information than a person was likely to come across in a lifetime in [...] Techcrunch reports today that Microsoft’s Adsense competitor Pubcenter is getting good reviews from it’s beta testers: PubCenter is being tested by a small subset of web publishers. Our tipster says that he is receiving from four times more in revenue from Microsoft than Google AdSense. And the money isn’t the only advantage PubCenter [...] |
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