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Facebook – a leading portal to the web but not the only one

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 [...]

May 29th, 2007 | Category: Social networks, WAYN, Yahoo! | 10 comments

What is the widget world coming to?

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 [...]

May 22nd, 2007 | Category: Business models, WAYN, Widgets | Leave a comment

Freemium business models

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 [...]

March 12th, 2007 | Category: Business models, Consumer Internet, Venture Capital, WAYN | 4 comments

Internet re-organising around people

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 [...]

January 30th, 2007 | Category: Consumer Internet, London, Social networks, Venture Capital, WAYN | 9 comments

Getting a consumer internet service to critical mass – some more thoughts

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 [...]

January 26th, 2007 | Category: Business models, Consumer Internet, MySpace, Social networks, WAYN | 4 comments

The next generation of social networks will have a purpose

 

An oft stated theme of mine over the last few months is that the next generation of social networks will be about “doing stuff”.  The first generation – MySpace, Bebo, Piczo et al are primarily about communication and identity, with a bit of music thrown in.

Nothing wrong with that – they [...]

January 9th, 2007 | Category: MySpace, Social networks, WAYN, Web2.0 | 24 comments

Science behind viral marketing

 

Viral marketing is a big topic in the web2.0 world and there is a lot of debate on whether you can force it or whether it is just something that happens to companies that get lucky.  I often talk about the importance of finding ‘a bit of magic marketing pixie dust’ [...]

December 7th, 2006 | Category: Blogging, MySpace, WAYN, Web2.0 | 10 comments
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