Category Archives: business model
With privacy there is no middle ground
Lots of posts the past few days about the current Facebook privacy issues. Mark Zuckerberg is under attack. Not just for the latest Facebook update, but also personally for an alleged chat session that suggests he isn’t very respectful towards … Continue reading
Why trying to make add block users feel guilty will never work
Ars Technica has a post up in which they argue that ad blocking software seriously hurts their main revenue stream (advertisement). A quote from that post: My argument is simple: blocking ads can be devastating to the sites you love. … Continue reading
To be free we need to break free of web 2.0 thinking
You’re meeting someone at a party for the first time. He introduces himself to you. “Hi. I’m Tim Eastwood. I’m 29 years old, live in San Francisco. I’m married to Laura, have 3 children Joe, James, and Jenny.” During the … Continue reading
Posted in business model, Facebook, privacy
Tagged business models, Facebook, identity, privacy, web 2.0
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A User-Centric Web needs brand agnostic service providers
A User-Centric web is by design a brand agnostic web when it comes to identity. There is only one brand, and that is you. The current web causes different types of problems that can be lead to possibly 2 design … Continue reading
Posted in advertisement trap, business model, freedom, OpenID, user centric web
Tagged advertisement trap, business model, freedom, OpenID, user centric web
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Building a People-Centric web is a fight for a lost cause
A number of posts drew my attention this week. First, 2 respectable media outlets explain us that the Facebook exodus has started. While I am not a big fan of Facebook (its their business model I don’t like), both the … Continue reading
The difference between a good and a great entrepreneur
Michael Arrington provides good insight into a current dilemma for Twitter. Should Twitter turn revenues on or keep them off? The dilemma being that a revenue-less but growing company will lead to speculative valuation and therefore possibly a high acquisition … Continue reading
Growth and traffic are no guarantee for a profitable online business
37Signals has a great post up, entitled “The bar for success in our industry is too low”. The author, Jason, takes several examples where respectable media (NY Times, GigaOM) take a story of a web company showing growth, traffic, and … Continue reading
Posted in business model, social media, web 2.0
Tagged business model, growth, social media, traffic, user value
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About leveraging the Facebook platform successfully for your business
Yesterday I read a post by Jesse Stay entitled “Hey businesses, you’re using Facebook wrong”. Let me start off by saying I have a lot of respect for the author. I think Jesse is right about the power that Facebook … Continue reading
Posted in business model, Facebook, user centric web, web 2.0
Tagged business, Facebook, revenues, user centric web, web 2.0 business model
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The difficulty I have with privacy controls on Facebook
I’m not a regular user of Facebook. I’ve joined a long time ago, have given it a few tries and then stopped using it. There are many reasons I don’t use it. I’ve written a post a long time ago … Continue reading
Posted in business model, Facebook, on-line advertisement, privacy, Social Advertisement
Tagged business model, Facebook, on-line advertisement, privacy, SocialAds
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Freemium and the art of letting it sink in for a few weeks
There is so much to read, so much to say, and no time to do all of that. This week several interesting posts about my favorite business model, Freemium appeared. All of them triggered by Chris Anderson’s new book, “Free”. … Continue reading
Why the iPhone will never be the biggest money generating platform
Tomi Ahonen has written a very long post about the history of mobile phone development in Europe and the United States. Tomi is a well known authority in the Mobile space and is the author of the well known Communities … Continue reading
Posted in business model, Facebook, iPhone, Mobile Internet
Tagged business model, Facebook, iPhone, mobile data, Tomi Ahonen
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Everybody loses in the battle over our online identity
Facebook announces user names. It generates a lot of buzz on Techmeme. TechCrunch reports the obvious (vanity), but Chris Messina is the only one that is actually analyzing what Facebook is doing and what impact it can have on our … Continue reading
The potential power of Google Wave is far bigger than its demo
I was just reading this CNET post on wave. Rafe Needleman and Stephen Shankland (both working for CNET) answer questions about Google Wave in an attempt to explain what it is. Sadly, they don’t really get past the Google Wave … Continue reading
Posted in business model, Google Wave, user centric web, web 2.0
Tagged business model, Google Wave, user centric web, web 2.0
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Shifting the balance of power inside out solves many web 2.0 issues
What are the most important aspects for a User-Centric web to me? In a User-Centric web: I get to own my data and my interactions I control my privacy Services travel along with me, instead of me traveling to those … Continue reading
Posted in business model, Google, Google Wave, privacy, user centric web
Tagged business model, Google Wave, privacy, user centric web
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An important revolution in the web can’t be driven by technology
Yesterday I tried logging into a service I hadn’t visited in a while. I couldn’t remember my user name or password. After a few frustrating and unsuccessful attempts I gave up. Recognize this? Happens to me all the time. Currently, … Continue reading
Posted in business model, user centric web, walled garden, web 2.0
Tagged user centric web, walled gardens, web 2.0 business model
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The Open, Social web needs plumbers
Chris Messina has a long and good post up about the open Social Web. He hits on a topic I have written about many times as well: Moreover, by commoditizing certain fundamental features, service providers will move to compete on … Continue reading
The fundamental problem of ‘owning’ user data
I do not often agree with Facebook, but I do agree with their decision to make privacy settings of their users more important than opening up the vast amount of data they track to 3rd party developers. Marshall Kirkpatrick writes … Continue reading
Posted in business model, Facebook, freedom, privacy, social networks, web 2.0
Tagged business model, Facebook, privacy, social networks, web 2.0
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Questions
Networks and destinations 1. If everything becomes open and connected, what will happen to the big destinations? 2. Why is the web rapidly evolving into uncountable databases with connections, instead of one database where everything connects? 3. If all services … Continue reading
Status update: the future of the web is here!
/rant on I read a number of posts in the last week that seem unrelated but ended up making me think about this social media circus we are in. Unless you are deaf, blind, and have been sitting on a … Continue reading
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