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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-30

Published a new post: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-23 http://cli.gs/bpUEt # Published a new post: A great presentation on corporate culture http://cli.gs/jnTqE # Brad Feld comes out against angel groups charging entrepreneurs – http://bit.ly/Plghx – I agree # I'm looking forward to this Apple Tablet – http://bit.ly/1iYXiG # I forgot to credit @wreeve [...]

Opinion: the news industry needs to look beyond news to find a business model for 21st century business

I originally wrote the post below as an opinion piece that was published on paidcontent yesterday – although I’ve changed the title here to one I think is a little better.  Ahhh, the joys of being one’s own editor.

News Corp (NYSE: NWS). and other traditional news businesses are hand-wringing over how [...]

Good website design presentation – espescially on sign up processes

This presentation from design consultant Joshua Porter has a lot of great tips/reminders for maximising the efficacy of your site from the point of first contact with a new customer through to maintaining and increasing engagement over time.  I particularly like the pointers on registration processes.  Like me you may have noticed that for [...]

Remnant inventory sometimes not worth selling?

There has been a big wave of interest in remnant inventory on the web in recent years, most notably with the acquisition of Advertising.com by AOL for $475m (a deal we backed when I was at Reuters Venture Capital) and RightMedia by Yahoo in an $850m deal.

The thesis behind these [...]

Apple should eliminate their app review process

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After reading a great post from Joe Hewitt I’m going to argue today that Apple should completely eliminate the app store review process.   This goes a step further than previous posts where I have argued that Apple should adopt a more open approach in its management [...]

A great presentation on corporate culture

UPDATE – when writing this yesterday I forgot to thank Will Reeve for the pointer.

This presentation from Netflix has some fantastic content. I particularly like the way the explanation of how values need to work in a company, the detail behind the values and the emphasis on managing using strategy and context rather [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-23

Published a new post: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-16 http://cli.gs/9L2y5 # Published a new post: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-16 http://cli.gs/Z3yGp # @fredwilson is not a fan of milestone based tranched investments – I agree – http://bit.ly/f6jRh # Someone has hacked Disqus to leave 57 comments on my blog promoting Uggs boots # [...]

Ownership of the social graph less important than eyeballs?

The news this morning that Facebook will soon enable people to syndicate upadates from pages from Facebook to Twitter got me thinking that as social networks become more open ownership of the social graph is getting less important.

In the first phase of social networking everything was closed, meaning that [...]

The lessons of iLike’s low valuation

As you may have seen it is heavily rumoured that Myspace is about to acquire social network based music site for around $20m (including $6m for employees).  On the face of it that seems like a low valuation for a business with 50m registered users, that is profitable and had offers from multiple buyers, [...]

Games publisher value add in an iPhone world

At the GDC conference in Cologne this morning I attended a panel session which was addressing the question of how games publishers add value to games developers in the iPhone ecosystem.  This is a topical question because in traditional games publishing the ability to deliver retail shelf space was beyond most [...]