Watching the watchmen

Yesterday, I spoke with Mark Opzoomer. Mark was the MD of Yahoo! Europe between 2001 and 2003. Now he’s involved in a number of ventures, but I was talking to him about his par­ti­cip­a­tion with Garlik. Garlik is set to launch as an online privacy service later this year. The idea is that they’ll scour the web

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Second business

Online world Second Life is to have its own business magazine, SL Business. A flurry of magazines have been launched around ebay to cater to those wishing to create their own business around the auction site. In a similar way, members of the Second Life com­munity are keen to join the likes of Anshe Chung,

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No, you show me the money

So how do you make any money from this Web 2.0 business? Ajit Jaokar has written an inter­esting post on Web 2.0 revenue models. He argues that charging premium fees to a select group of users dis­qual­i­fies sites from being Web 2.0, since the project depends upon mon­et­ising the “long tail”. Similarly, a charged-​​​​for

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1999 and all that

Here’s where you get to help me. What follows is a draft of a chapter about the dotcom bubble. What I am lacking is personal anec­dotes, so I feel it’s a bit dry, though I do have a few to add in. Did you make a mint overnight? Did you lose it again? Did you lose your job or your business? Did you

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Another get-​​rich-​​quick scheme foiled

Thanks to Drew B for drawing my atten­tion to a fant­astic article about blogging in New York magazine. The gist of it is that while blogs can earn money for writers, it’s not very likely. There are a number of issues, but the key is the number of inbound links. A large site with a staff can produce

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