Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media
Kara Swisher of Boomtown has an interesting post today; When Twitter Met Facebook: The Acquisition Deal That Fail-Whaled. That was news to me, although according to Techcrunch there had been prior rumours.
Apparently the deal being discussed was that Facebook acquire Twitter for $500m in Facebook stock at the ‘Microsoft valuation’ of $15bn, and it fell [...]
I’m a big fan of open and extensible platforms (ideally open-source extensible platforms) - with Wordpress.org for blogging and Mozilla/Firefox for browsing being my two favourites.
So I was pleased today to read Mozilla’s announcement that they had crossed the one billion mark for add-on downloads since they started counting in 2005. See chart below.
Note also [...]
As reported on ReadWriteWeb yesterday Google plans to replace the words ‘Subcribe to this blog’ with ‘Follow this blog’ in the sidebar of every blog on Blogger.com around the web.
I’m constantly hearing stories of how small changes like this have a massive impact on key site metrics - e.g. conversion, and this could be the [...]
Tim O’Reilly has a post this morning about the growing trend for sites to link to themselves so they don’t lose traffic. I was called out for doing this the other day by Nils Geylen, which made me think about the issue for the first time, and it isn’t a good development.
O’Reilly cites numerous [...]
I got an email from Twitter this morning saying that outside of the US, Canada and India they are no longer going to provide free outbound SMS updates. The web announcement is here and predictably there is a bit of chat in the blogosphere here, here and here. Unsurprisingly the reason is the [...]
A year or two ago blogs were at the centre of citizen journalism - fast forward to 2008 and you can see two trends which are undermining that position.
Firstly, the initial flush of enthusiasm for the medium has gone and some people are getting bored of blogging. I think there are a number of [...]
Over on ReadWriteWeb Corvida argues that Filtering is the Next Step for Social Media.
Too right. Couldn’t agree more. And I would say for all media, not just social media.
As she (he?) points out with aggregation services like FriendFeed and others there is so much social media content these days that it is impossible [...]
Techcrunch reports the following March stats for Twitter:
Total Users: 1+ million
Total Active Users: 200,000 per week
Total Twitter Messages: 3 million/day
These are apparently not official figures, but they are consistent with the rumours I have been hearing.
I’m a big Twitter fan and it is one of the few services I use every day, but given all [...]
Information overload appears to be a growing problem for people in the web era. Today on Techmeme there is a post entitled Web2.0 Expo Preview: Torture by Information Overload:
Now that the first burst of enthusiasm for social networking has died, people are realizing that web 2.0 is actually a huge time sink.Facebook, Twitter, [...]
As I have been bemoaning the demise of Blogfriends and wondering where to go for a replacement it was timely to find this post from Fred Wilson on where his traffic comes from.
There is a lot of detailed analysis and a couple of different takeaways, but for me the main one was that sites like [...]
