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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-14

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-07 http://goo.gl/fb/mMIi # A reminder on the economics of venture capital http://goo.gl/fb/o3Dw # Good post on Flash and HTML5 – we will live with both for some time RT Techcrunch http://tcrn.ch/9p9x5U # Good explanation of how Demand Media works http://nyti.ms/duAdqU – it is better content than I thought but [...]

February 14th, 2010 | Category: Weekly Twitter digest | Leave a comment

Yahoo uses Nectar database to improve targeting

Tim Bradshaw has a piece in the FT today describing how Yahoo and offline loyalty card company Nectar are teaming up to help target display ads on Yahoo’s properties:

Online advertisers will be able to target shoppers based on their high-street purchases for the first time in the UK under a [...]

February 12th, 2010 | Category: Advertising, Yahoo! | 4 comments

Warner comes out against free music services

As you may have seen Edgar Bronfman Jr, CEO of Warner Music Group, yesterday came out against free streaming services, saying the following (full article on the BBC website):

Free streaming services are clearly not net positive for the industry and as far as Warner Music is concerned will not be licensed. [...]

February 11th, 2010 | Category: Music | 3 comments

danah boyd interview on how people use social networks

As most of you probably know Danah Boyd is one of the pre-eminent thinkers on how and why people use the web for social purposes.  She is currently working as a researcher for Microsoft.

Behind this link you will find an interesting 10 minute interview on iPlayer she did as part of their Virtual [...]

February 10th, 2010 | Category: Social networks | 2 comments

Internet trends

Comscore has just published a review of internet trends in 2009 and it is jam packed full of interesting stats (link to download here).  I’m going to pull out just one here, but if you have a broad interest in how the internet is developing the whole paper is well worth a read.

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February 9th, 2010 | Category: Advertising, Facebook, MySpace, Social networks | 2 comments

A reminder on the economics of venture capital

Bill Bryant, former entrepreneur and now one of our US venture partners, recently described the maths of venture investing at a conference in Seattle.  This write up is from the Xconomy blog, and in it Bill it explains why VCs need to price in 10x returns:

Bryant explained that “Despite doing [...]

February 8th, 2010 | Category: Venture Capital | 8 comments

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-07

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-31 http://goo.gl/fb/ALTK # Publishers fighting to keep price of digital books up – I predict a losing battle http://bit.ly/drinBt # It was light when I finished my run this morning – a watershed moment in the passage of winter every year for me # RT @jasonsparrow: You can often [...]

February 7th, 2010 | Category: Weekly Twitter digest | Leave a comment

An Apple doesn’t change its spots, but it is still the sweetest fruit

Developers have been encouraged of late by improvements in Apple’s App Store approval process.  Reportedly, approvals are happening faster, tolerance of banned private code has increased, feedback to developers has improved and rejection decisions are being reversed following appeals.

That is all good news, but it doesn’t change the fact that getting approval [...]

February 5th, 2010 | Category: Apple, Google, Mobile | 4 comments

Social networks drive traffic to retailers and news sites

The Hitwise chart below gives a shot in the arm to the credibility to the social network business model.  It shows that social networks and forums are driving a lot of traffic to retailers websites and that the volume of traffic is increasing very fast.

It also looks like that traffic has a degree [...]

February 4th, 2010 | Category: Facebook, Social networks | 5 comments

Social media RoI

@markgyles linked me to the presentation below after reading my post this morning about measuring social media.  As the first slide makes clear the point of the presentation is to say that it is all about the money.  It has to be.  All other objectives (website traffic, blog comments, Facebook fans etc.) are unimportant [...]

February 3rd, 2010 | Category: Advertising, Social networks | One comment
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