Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media
From Mashable yesterday:
The so-called social Web just became legitimately open, as MySpace has launched the two first implementations of its Data Availability initiative on Flixster and Eventful. Simultaneously, the company is announcing that it will support OpenID, allowing its users to sign into any OpenID-enabled website using their MySpace credentials.
yahoo-google-and-myspace-versus-facebook Mar-25-2008 I think [...]
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I particularly like the lists on pages 125-6 - “10 commandments of receiving feedback” and pages 175-6 “10 things you can do to create amazing customer experiences”.
Thanks to Nnamdi for the pointer - you come up with a lot of great stuff!
Update: Just pre-ordered Tara’s new book The Whuffie [...]
The NewYorkTimes today has an article entitled Buy.com Deal with eBay Angers Sellers which covers a couple of interesting things.
Firstly:
Consumers appear to be tiring of online auctions, and rivals like Amazon.com are attracting more shoppers with fixed-price listings, while eBay has been struggling for growth.
This came as a bit of a surprise to me, but [...]
Silicon Alley Insider yesterday wrote up the latest bad news for Google as it struggles to monetise it’s media assets. Despite showing around 1bn video clips per day YouTube revenues are only expected to come in at around $200m this year.
Running the calculations that comes out to CPMs of around $0.5 (making the rough [...]
I have had a few conversations recently about the difference between media and communications. The dominant idea for as long as I can remember has been that media and communications are converging - and this is undeniably the case in the sense that many of us buy a blend of media and entertainment from [...]
Techcrunch reports today on Yahoo!’s facelift for MyYahoo, and in the article they give user numbers for both MyYahoo and iGoogle. Neither company is going to be overjoyed with this performance:
The interface has been in need of a facelift for some time, as Yahoo has watched its userbase dwindle from 56.9 million users last November [...]
As reported on Techcrunch yesterday Myspace fully luanched Data Availability service. Going forward developers will be able to access a livefeed of Myspace profile information for use in their own third party services. Reading the Myspace Developer Team blog it looks to me like this will include friend lists.
What developers won’t be able [...]
Andy Warren left a great comment yesterday in response to Social networks as entertainment. He wrote:
There’s been an interesting episode on Faceparty (see The Register for more details) where an almighty row has occurred between the users (who don’t pay anything for the service) and the providers (who don’t get paid to provide the [...]
I write from time to time here about mass collaboration - and it is something I have been thinking about more recently as I read Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody. In a nutshell I’m excited about this space because the way the internet lowers the cost and barriers to collaboration has the potential to [...]
There has been a lot of chat in the blogosphere recently about Facebook overtaking Myspace, then on the value of international traffic compared with US domestic traffic - both on Techcrunch and GigaOM, and finally asking if the implication of Facebook over-taking Myspace is that network effects for social networks have been overstated (this is [...]
