Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media
The web is abuzz this morning with news of Facebook’s traffic, with most headlines focusing on the 10% decline in US unique visitors from March to April.
However, as the chart below shows, year on year traffic still grew at 56%.
The interesting question therefore is whether the decline in uniques is being covered by the increase [...]
A couple of weeks ago Alan Patrick wrote an interesting post on socnet usage patterns. Back in November in a post on the essence of social networks I wrote about the difference between object-centred socnets (e.g. Flickr, Delicious) and ego-centred socnets (e.g. Myspace, Facebook, bebo) and commented that:
most of the activity on ego-centred sites [...]
Last week I wrote about Forbes reporting declining social network traffic.
In the comments some of you said that traffic to niche social network sites is increasing - and this is certainly something we are seeing at WAYN (DFJ Esprit portfolio company), where monthly unique visitors this month will be up circa 185% on a year [...]
As you probably know Hugh MacLeod writes a great blog at GapingVoid - and he has been writing a lot about social objects recently, including a good post on social gestures and then yesterday one on social markers.
The social object concept is a powerful one when it comes to understanding social networks. Despite only [...]
I have been thinking for a while now that I should start experimenting with advertising on TheEquityKicker - and the observant amongst you who have visited my site rather than just reading me in a feed will have noticed that there is now a banner for Lovefilm in my left sidebar. This is an [...]
Everyone is talking about Facebook at the moment from Ben Holmes and I chatting over lunch last week about whether it might become a $10bn company to Fred Wilson’s Open Facebook post on Sunday - naturally that has got me thinking, and nine times out of ten when that happens my two cents worth end [...]
It seems to me there is a lot of confusion in the world about widgets right now, and that thinking about the old fashioned concept of value can help us see through the fog.
To set the scene, along with many others I believe that widgets are big news. Content is getting atomised and widgets are [...]
There is a bit of chatter in the blogosphere today about the beauty of “free”. Fred Wilson repeats his assertion that starting with free is a great thing to do, and he cites RedEye VC who makes the great point that demand drops off massively at the introduction of any charge at all - even if it [...]
I have written before about the internet re-organisng around people - and I even said a few words on the subject at an Internet People event in London last night. (Great event btw - in his own inimitable fashion founder Robert Loch is really driving the London internet scene forward with this community - if you [...]
The following definition of a viral internet service is from Nisan of StartUp Review, but posted on Mashable:
A viral Internet service is one where each new user must involve friends to derive personal value from the service. This is best exhibited by communication and hyper-social services.
He gives Skype and Xfire (an IM service for gamers) as [...]
