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Lessons from the trials and tribulations of Yahoo

Techcrunch wrote yesterday about Yahoo’s recent change of the Flickr logo and the other problems they have been having with  the site.  Collectively they show both the challenges of acquiring successful web communities in general and that Yahoo in particular still doesn’t understand how to manage a web2.0 property.

First the rebranding – [...]

September 25th, 2009 | Category: Community, Social networks, Web2.0 | 2 comments

The economics of free – and how they might change everything

My friend Alexis pointed me this morning to an awesome Wired article by Chris Anderson, author of The Long Tail. I’ve seen him speak a couple of times now and following his obsession with the long tail he is now focused on the impact of ‘free’ – which I think is having some far [...]

February 26th, 2008 | Category: Business models, Consumer Internet, Web2.0 | 14 comments

From supply chain management to the future of web hubs

I bought a new video camera on Amazon this weekend, and I also bought an extra battery and a couple of SD cards.  So far so normal.  The amazing thing to me is that I ended up buying each of these three items from different suppliers on Amazon’s market place, and the last of [...]

January 24th, 2008 | Category: Amazon, Google, Innovation, Second Life, Web2.0 | 2 comments

All software to be social

Firstly – Happy New Year to you all. I hope 2008 brings you everything you want and more. For me, it is good to be back in the saddle.

Surfing Jay Deragon’s blog (seems to be down at time of writing) this morning I found the following quote from Marc Canter:

I [...]

January 2nd, 2008 | Category: Business models, Consumer Internet, Facebook, Social networks, Social software, Web2.0 | Leave a comment

Consumer internet – the changing nature of the game – part II

 

This is a follow to my first post on this subject last week.

In that post I predicted that building web2.0 companies will start to become a more expensive business – driven by increased marketing and development spend. 

In this follow up post I will look at what that might mean for the way companies [...]

January 25th, 2007 | Category: Consumer Internet, Entrepreneurs, Venture Capital, Web2.0 | Leave a comment

Consumer internet – the changing nature of the game

I have been thinking for some time that the extreme capital efficiency of many web2.0 businesses is a feature of where we are in the cycle and will start to come under pressure as the sector matures.  So when Max Bleyleben – in his post on Web2.0 bubble debate in full swing pointed me [...]

January 18th, 2007 | Category: 3D, Blogging, Business models, Entrepreneurs, MySpace, Venture Capital, Web2.0 | 2 comments

Musings on the wisdom of crowds and machine intelligence

This is a very provisional post.  It has been swirling around my head since I was talking to Saul Klein before Xmas.  These thoughts are interesting to me as I think more about what it means to build social networks that do stuff, but they are new thoughts, and hence even more than normal I’d welcome your comments. 

It [...]

January 10th, 2007 | Category: Entrepreneurs, Social networks, Venture Capital, Web2.0 | 12 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

Traffic, measurement and the end of page views

Fred Wilson wrote a great post about the increasing problems with page views as a metric for websites.  His words have stimulated two post ideas for me.  Next I will write about widgets and the new challenges for VCs investing in web2.0 companies, but today I want to stay on the topic of measurement.

Much has been [...]

December 28th, 2006 | Category: Advertising, Entrepreneurs, Social networks, Venture Capital, Web2.0 | One comment

Agencies – more English than tea and crumpets?

What is it with us Brits and agencies?

They are everywhere in this country, much more so than in the US, for example.

I`ve been feeling it most in advertising through our investment in Buy.At, and estate agents have been figuring prominently in my thoughts about the property sector (of which more below and [...]

December 22nd, 2006 | Category: Aggregators, Real estate, Venture Capital, Web2.0 | 2 comments
 
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