A couple of years back there was a wave of social shopping startups (e.g. Kaboodle, Crowdstorm) looking to combine reviews and recommendations with friend lists to help people shop more smartly. Unfortunately none of them got too far – but the idea is back, now called social commerce, and maybe this time it will [...]
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A friend of mine is currently considering taking a senior role at integration software vendor Tibco, a business I’m pretty familiar with from my Reuters days. We were discussing their long term prospects as applications move increasingly to the cloud, which raised the question of how companies will integrate (or share data between) the [...] There is an article on the front page of the Financial Times business section today which reports that the ‘architect of Vodafone‘s push into internet services is quitting amidst signs that the mobile phone operator is retreating in its battle with Apple and Google over the wireless web’. He follows a couple of other [...] Many of you will be aware of the ‘angel gate’ saga enveloping the US ‘super angel’ scene which started a week or so ago with Mike Arringtons’s A Blogger Walks Into A Bar post which describes his encounter with a bunch of ‘super angels’ who he alleged were meeting in secret to collude on [...] Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-09-19 http://goo.gl/fb/OSnQ0 # Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-09-19 http://goo.gl/fb/umOJr # Interesting tail of caution for GroupOn merchants http://bit.ly/aU2CFH # Twitter followers are more valued than Facebook fans http://goo.gl/fb/wDVdR # @hkanji thanks Hussein, interesting link in reply to hkanji # EA CFO says Android will be important going forward and [...] You may well have heard talk recently about Facebook’s $33bn valuation and similarly high valuations for other private companies on SecondMarket. I’m writing today to share a few thoughts on why we need to be careful with these numbers, but before I go any further, I want to make the point that I think [...] Mark Zuckerberg gave a long interview to Mike Arrington at Techcrunch yesterday (full transcript here) and whilst most of the commentary is about whether Facebook is or isn’t building a phone to me the most interesting thing is the range and extent of development Facebook feels it needs to undertake to get the features [...] There is a good post on Techcrunch today about the impact of Google Instant on SEO. SEO company RankAbove has done some research and from the two weeks of data available it seems that one of the big changes is reduced traffic to long-tail keywords, here’s why: Because Google Instant focuses the user’s attention [...] Regular readers will know that in the past I’ve been critical of Apple’s attitude towards its partners in the mobile ecosystem. I have argued that their insistence on controlling and approving everything and on adherence to the Apple way of doing things makes life harder for startups and stifles innovation. Jobs’ Thoughts on [...] I have a long standing bet with an old friend from university that 50 million people will Tweet in December this year and over the weekend he pointed me to articles on ComputerWorld and sociamediatoday saying that as little as 17% of Twitter users actually send Tweets and that Twitter seems to be positioning [...] |
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