Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media
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 talked about [...]
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 ad networks [...]
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 [...]
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 to loose these [...]
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 about Russell [...]
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 of course true [...]
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 building an ad network [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot about widgets recently and the recent Valleywag and Fred Wilson posts made me want to get my thoughts down in writing. I started with the hype but I think there is something important going on here, so don’t give up in disgust if the Valleywag stuff offends you.
In his Valleywag post Nick [...]
