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My buddy Paul Fisher of Advent published some research last week showing that venture capital investments into ad technology are over $580m so far this year. Moreover Europe counted for 45% of the total in this sector, which is a lot when you consider that we only account for around 20% of venture investment [...]
There is good, if rather long, piece on ReadWriteWeb this morning about the future of the desktop. This topic is of wide ranging significance, particularly for anyone with an interest in cloud computing, desktop apps and the browser.
I would highlight these points the article makes: None of the webtop services around today have [...]
VRM is CRM flipped on its head. Instead of vendors collecting data in systems like Siebel and managing customers the idea is that customers start storing and managing their own data and using it to manage suppliers.
At the moment this is little more than concept stage stuff, championed by Doc Searls and being [...]
Reporting on Slide‘s rumoured $500m valuation Ivan on Snipperoo looks again at the question of widget business models. Apparently the valuation is based on Slide turning itself into an ad network. Ivan isn’t too thrilled and says:
It looks like all widget companies are trying to turn themselves at one level or another into [...]
Fred Wilson announced today his “first investment in a company that has no website”. Hot on the heals of yesterday’s announcement that Flip is becoming a widget only social network Union Square invests in Zynga Game Network – which exists only as widgets inside social networks (Fred says they will probably get a website [...]
I haven’t written much about widgets for a while, but Ivan Pope’s Flip widgetises itself caught my eye this morning. (And Ivan, the respelling of widgetises is deliberate – if we’re going to make up words let’s do it in English…. lol)
Ivan wrote:
paidcontent.org reports that Conde Nast‘s teen site Flip has decided [...]
I attended Ivan Pope’s Widgety Goodness conference in Brighton yesterday – and I had a great day. There were lots of interesting speakers and I returned to London more educated than ever before on the widget-sphere.
As I checked my notes this morning though I found myself wanting to write not about widgets, but [...]
Look at those shoes! Now look at the rush of social networks looking to follow Facebook’s lead and by offering API’s and turning themselves into platforms for third party applications. This is unlike the shoes, in that this type of platform is not useless and I’m betting it is no fad. It is [...]
I missed this Techcrunch post on monetising Facebook apps back in July. It describes three companies that are experimenting with differing monetisation models:
fbExchange which allows Facebook app owners to trade space with each other – basically a cross promotion scheme Lookery founded by Scott Rafer of Mybloglog fame – he is [...]
One of the challenges in writing a blog like this one is knowing which of your posts are the good ones – ie the ones that you, dear reader, enjoy the most. The comments and Technorati’s list of blogs that link to mine help a lot – but they are both blunt tools. By [...]
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