Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media
Posted by mobile phone:Respected research firm Enders are predicting the UK online ad market will be £3.6bn - coming in just ahead of TV which will be £3.4bn.
They have online growing at 26% and TV declining 2.5%.
That statistic alone answers a lot of questions about the impact of the credit crisis on web [...]
Check out this deck on Slideshare for an awesome update on where we are in social media. Here are some of the headline stats:
57% of internet users are now part of a social network
There are now 184M bloggers worldwide
72% of “active Internet users” (or 346M worldwide) regularly read blogs (up 20% in two years), [...]
I have written a couple of times before about luck. First I leant on Taleb to think about the necessity of distinguishing between luck and success when evaluating decisions and performance (focus on the process not the result) and then Andreessen to discuss the possibility of making luck for yourself (keep busy to maximise the [...]
A week ago Dan Greenberg wrote a post on Techcrunch which describes how to game YouTube to make videos go viral. This has created quite a storm - check out the 493 comments for yourself to get a full feel for the passion, but as Alan Patrick points out (and thanks for the tipoff to [...]
Lots of people are reporting that Facebook is turning over $150m and making $30m in profits. These are small numbers when compared with the rumoured $10bn valuation that Microsoft is considering for a $500m investment. As the Guardian points out that equates to $238 for each of their 42m profiles - which compares [...]
There was a great piece in the FT yesterday about Microsoft’s struggle with innovation. Despite some bold moves and substantial investments into new areas (most notably games consoles and mobile) it’s market cap has been stuck around the $300bn mark for some time now.
In that time Apple and Google have both exploited new areas [...]
When Nokia launched their mobile ad network back in March I wrote about how crowded the space was getting crowded, and how mobile and online adserving would converge.
That seems to be happening at pace now. Since then Microsoft acquired ScreenTonic, AOL acquired ThirdScreenMedia, and now (reported in NMA this week) UK online ad networks Unanimis, [...]
In case you haven’t heard the OpenCoffee meetings are moving to a new venue (apparently we were too popular for the Starbucks in Esprit).
It will now be in the 5th View Bar at the top of Waterstones, 203-206 Piccadily. TrustedPlaces review here.
More details about all things OpenCoffee can be found on Saul’s blog.
I go along [...]
Last week I wrote about the Separation of revenue and value, and I predicted that content bundles will continue to disappear and that we will have to get used to paying for each unit of content as consumer - either via putting up with advertising, or via micropayments.
Fred Wilson says the same sort of thing, [...]
I have just found my notes from an event I attended a couple of weeks ago where Mike Carr, head of the BT research lab was presenting.
First he said:
1% of global telco research is done by the 3,500 researches at BT’s lab at Astral Park.
At this point I was thinking, OK - quite a lot [...]
