An article in the (London) Times newspaper on Tuesday talked about the extent to which newspapers have been slow to embrace the ‘era of unbundling’. What is unbundling? The author, Jonathan Weber, recalls a remark from Bill Gates in the early 90s. Newspapers, Gates said, bundle together a lot of different stuff, local, national and [...]
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ROI follow-up
October 3, 2006 – 7:48 pm
Like a number of you, I expect, I attended Charlene Li’s webinar in relation to her ‘calculating the cost of business blogging’ post (covered here, three posts down). Powerpoint slides and an MP3 of the presentation ought to follow shortly - I’ll update when they are.
A lot of the content was covered in the original [...]
The ROI of Business Blogs
October 3, 2006 – 10:51 am
Forrester research consultant Charlene Li has begun a project to address the important issue of calculating the ROI of business blogs. It’s too easy to simply say “blogs are good for your business because X, Y & Z”. That statement may be true, but when the hard-nosed Financial Director wants to know why you’re spending [...]
Bebo Looks For Revenue 2.0
October 2, 2006 – 4:06 pm
An interview in the Sunday Times yesterday said that Bebo head Michael Birch seemed prepared to wait before earning much money from the service:
Birch, 36, is almost dismissive of the need for Bebo to generate revenues at this stage. For the next two or three years, his priority is to establish the firm as one [...]
Writely Getting Tightly
September 20, 2006 – 8:17 pm
More tightly integrated with its owner, that is. I’ve always wondered how Writely was supposed to make any money. Today’s email brings a clue. New users or the users you invite to collaborate on documents will need to get themselves a gmail/gcalendar/gpersonalised account to participate. Good move, I think. Writely is a cool tool, but [...]
MySpace to Reinvent Web 2.0?
September 13, 2006 – 10:23 am
News Corporation’s COO Peter Chernin told investors at the Merrill Lynch Media & Entertainment Conference that MySpace could move to develop its own applications to rival or dominate other Web 2.0 services:
“If you look at virtually any Web 2.0 application, whether its YouTube, whether it’s Flickr, whether it’s Photobucket or any of the next-generation Web [...]
Good News for Homepage 2.0
September 8, 2006 – 12:29 pm
It’s not important for you to know my name -
Nor I to know yours
If we communicate for two minutes only
It will be enough
For knowing that someone in this world
Feels as desperate as me -
And what you give is what you get.
It doesn’t matter if we never meet again,
What we have said will always remain.
If we [...]
PG Tips
September 3, 2006 – 7:13 pm
Techcrunch has posted a great interview with angel investor Paul Graham, which covers some different ground to the one he did with me. Especially interesting, I thought, is Graham’s point that new software startups can effect social and political change:
Frankly, even though I’m supposed to be an investor, the ideas that excite me most are [...]
Should papers be more like blogs?
September 1, 2006 – 11:28 am
Following its report into the extent to which US newspapers have adopted Web 2.0 approaches, such as blogs and podcasts, The Bivings Report offered a list of ten pieces of advice to help the papers avoid their predicted demise:
Start using tags.
Provide full text RSS feeds.
Work with external “social†websites.
Link to relevant blog entries.
Get rid of [...]
Google was framed
August 19, 2006 – 8:51 pm
For many observers, one of the key lessons of the Kiko tits-up episode is that startups need to watch out for the evil empire that is the Google Operating System. Mike Yamamoto’s comments in “Google, slayer of Web 2.0 start-ups” seem typical of the sort of conclusions being drawn. One of Kiko’s mentors, Paul Graham, [...]
