Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media
Techcrunch reports today on Yahoo!’s facelift for MyYahoo, and in the article they give user numbers for both MyYahoo and iGoogle. Neither company is going to be overjoyed with this performance:
The interface has been in need of a facelift for some time, as Yahoo has watched its userbase dwindle from 56.9 million users last November [...]
In more stuff from the Web2.0 expo Techcrunch reported Yahoo!’s announcement that they will integrate all their services to be accessed via a single unified profile, and that they will make everything social.
For me this is a big deal - if you have one profile, you have one friends list which suddenly means everything can [...]
It seems every man and his dog is becoming an ad network these days. The latest to join this rather crowded party is Disney subsidiary SOAPnet.com. In the words of the Wall Street Journal (no link due to paywall):
The business of brokering ads across clusters of Web sites has become one of the [...]
It is starting to look like Microsoft is going to be successful in it’s bid for Yahoo!. I say that on the back of reports that Microsoft will ‘do what it takes’ to win and that Yahoo! is simply holding out for a higher price. Further, Yahoo!’s second largest institutional shareholder came out [...]
One of the things I like about blogging is that it forces me to think about a topic in detail every day, and often that takes me down paths I might otherwise never have found.
Today I started reading a Fred Wilson post on how well delicious search is doing. He doesn’t source the data [...]
This morning I read in my paper that advertising revenues at the New York Times had fallen 13% year on year and that Google disappointed in it’s latest quarter blaming the difficulty of advertising on social networks for it’s poor results.
It seemed that both new media and old media were suffering as audiences deserted their [...]
Facebook is hitting some growing pains at the moment. At the 60,000 ft level it’s momentum is incredible to see (posts like this from Australia are all over the web) but at the same time it is getting blocked by increasing numbers of corporations and some power users are starting to find it annoying.
The complainants [...]
As I was playing with a new Facebook app on Friday that uses my friends list to filter blog posts (of which more later) I began thinking again about the power of Facebook as a platform for friends. As I wrote in the post I just linked to it is crazy that we have to [...]
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 [...]
This week Eric Schmidt of Google said he would help us answer questions like “What am I going to do tomorrow?”. I applaud the sentiment here, I really do, but I don’t think Eric is the right guy for the job, and he certainly isn’t going about it the right way.
A lot of people [...]
