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Making happiness your business model

I first read the presentation below from Tara Hunt about a year ago and when I agreed to send it to a friend earlier this week I thought I would find it on here already – but it turns out I never posted it. A situation which I’m rectifying now.

In a nutshell her [...]

The power of market dominance – browsers

Firefox, and to a lesser extent Safari and Chrome continue to gain market share at the expense of Internet Explorer – see the charts below, (which comes courtesy of Asa Dotzler). What is surprising (to me at least) is that despite the decline in market share IE has still gained 100m users in the [...]

The future of games: Trip Hawkins, CEO of Digital Chocolate

Digital Chocolate is now the number one game company on the iPhone and Trip’s view is the future for games is casual and social, and that they will be free to play with revenue coming from virtual goods. Hear his views in full on the video below.

Thanks to my friend Rob Majteles [...]

Growing a consumer internet business – the LinkedIn lesson

Consumer internet is not a very popular place to be right now – the advertising market is difficult (although I sense getting a little easier) and the profitability challenges of Facebook and YouTube, plus the history of Bebo post the AOL acquisition and Myspace post the high point of their Google search deal, have [...]

Apple’s App Store is like AOL in the 90s

Reading this morning about the upcoming first anniversary of the App Store in Mobile Entertainment I was thought for the first time about the parallels with AOL in the 1990s. In both cases an end to end solution, walled garden solution provided the best customer experience in an environment with the following characteristics:

Narrow [...]