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- The Accelerator Conundrum
- The Startup Velocity Question
- Platform as a Service
- Man and Superman
- Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS)
- The Future: End of Capitalism
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Blogging Networks
At the conclusion of my post Blogging: Time vs. Money, I said that I would write about how I see blogging networks evolving in the future. It seems to me that many of us are in this zone of time versus money trade-off wrt blogging, and don’t have the time to do all the functions
Blogging: Time versus Money
Chris Anderson in The Long Tail writes a good analysis on the amount of time we’re all putting in to Blog, and not paying attention to the ad dollars : DON’T QUIT YOUR DAY JOB. He quotes : An interesting tidbit from Guy Kawasaki’s wrap-up of his first full year blogging. Note that his blog
Online Focus Groups
Robert Young writes a very pertinent piece: For Social Networks, 2007 is all about MONEY. College Kids & Teenagers, two very important demographics within the social networking phenomenon, could, however, be effectively monetized and advertising dollars from Coke, Pepsi, Nike, GAP, Adidas, Bebe, Cover Girl, etc. can easily be harnessed by acknowledging the fact that
Triumph of the Nerds
The theme has been played with so many different storylines over the last thirty some years. And now, yet again, the web’s developments are rewriting another new script along these lines. On the Internet, if you are trying to launch a new product, service or site, and if the Geeks have appetite for your offering,
Sports Portals & Social Networking
Being in India these past few days, I am reminded how much of the content that is marketed in India (and the world) is related to Sports. The newspapers devote a lot of front page real estate to Sourav Ganguly’s ups and downs, as India plays South Africa. The IFA Shield soccer tournament is on,
Om Malik’s New TV
Aligning with a clear trend on the internet, Om Malik has launched a site called NewTeeVee.com to cover everything under the sun on online video. Unquestionably, the next decade will be about online video gaining popularity and broad adoption, so having a central clearinghouse to check on related news is a great idea. My 2c:
LinkedIn Has Found Its Groove?
Here’s a good article on LinkedIn. I have written about them before, a year or more ago, and at the time, they hadn’t yet quite hit their stride. Since then, the social networking craze has become a mainstream phenomenon. LinkedIn’s positioning seems to have become a “see and be seen” place for professionals, with recruiters
Content Packaging
Rafat Ali reports on a Bear Stearns report suggesting that content packaging is the key opportunity going forward, with the following image of the content foodchain: Om also has his 2c to add about the fatbelly, saying that the MyYahoo or NetVibes kind of personalized content aggregation plays are the most important going forward. There
