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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
- Capitalism 2.0
online media
Who Would Have Thought?
Imagine you are a venture capitalist, and some little punk entrepreneur comes in and presents a business plan that projects that little kids would be adopting virtual pets. Instead of parents having to clean poop and puke, when children come calling for a chocolate lab puppy, they would introduce the little ones to virtual pets.
Concept Arbitrage: Content & Community
A while back, I wrote a popular series called Concept Arbitrage, about ideas that have been successful in America, and have potential in India. Here is the summary of that series from last June. I want to point you, now, to a set of ideas that have been gaining traction as content-community digital media properties
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:
