Tag Archives: Rolf Skyberg
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
What do Skype, eBay, the iPhone, Robert Scoble, Friendfeed and noise have in common?
Rolf Skyberg of eBay has an interesting post up called “Skype: proof that Voice is not the killer app”. Rolf is an excellent pattern hound and he has come with another interesting pattern after he looked at Skype. Skype was … Continue reading
Posted in eBay, Friendfeed, noise, Robert Scoble, Rolf Skyberg, Skype
Tagged eBay, Friendfeed, iPhone, noise, Robert Scoble, Rolf Skyberg, Skype
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The question is more important than the answer
Yesterday I wrote about the trend that every bit of content that is produced on the Internet seems to get aggregated, producing yet another view of what is already out there. Instead of delivering us inspiration, aggregation brings us more … Continue reading
Web 2.0 has brought democracy, but it comes at a cost
I read a few different posts this morning and they inspired me for this one. First there was a post by Betsy Schiffman writing about the Web 2.0 Expo. She writes: Now that the first burst of enthusiasm for social … Continue reading
Facebook popularity will decline because of a wrong business model
In Dutch culture people rarely stand out of a crowd. There are a lot of sayings that (badly translated) essentially say something like: “just act normal, that’s crazy enough”, or “don’t stick your head out”. We all try to fit … Continue reading
Posted in advertisement trap, Beacon, Facebook, Facebook application, Firefox, Microsoft, Rolf Skyberg, Social Graph, social networks, SocialAds, Uncategorized
Tagged advertisement trap, Beacon, business model, decline in Facebook users, Facebook, Firefox, Microsoft, Rolf Skyberg, social networks, SocialAds
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Big brother is watching me
A lot of different, seemingly unrelated, things are happening right now in the tech world. Looking through different feeds most of the discussions are about: The mash-up of content seems to be important right now. I see it everywhere. People … Continue reading
Marketeers are idiots
There seems to be some discussion on TechMeme about a research report just released by Burst Media. The report describes the behavior of consumers watching on-line video and their perception to advertisement placements within it. Research results, can we call … Continue reading
Looking back at 2007 with a few lists of the best of..
It seems everyone is closing off 2007 with all different kinds of lists. I haven’t done that yet, but to make up for it, here are a few of mine: My own 5 top posts in 2007: De zin en … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander van Elsas, Cluetrain, Doc Searl, Fred Wilson, Jonathan Harris, Lynette Webbe, Rolf Skyberg, Tara Hunt, Top 5 list 2007, Uncategorized, Ze Frank, Zephoria
Tagged Alexander van Elsas, Cluetrain, Doc Searl, Fred Wilson, Jonathan Harris, Lynette Webbe, Rolf Skyberg, Tara Hunt, Top 5 list 2007, Ze Frank, Zephoria
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Observing social behavior through a fishbowl
Is human behavior changing because of the way the web has allowed us to interact, or are we still following the same basic social rules as, lets say 10 years ago? My guess is that human behavior is affected around … Continue reading
Freedom to the people
We are nearing the end of 2007 so human nature forces me to look back and forth, thinking about things that happened and things to come. I am by no means a good trend or technology predictor, but here’s my … Continue reading
Posted in Android Mobile OS, Beacon, business model, Facebook, freedom, Google, iPhone, Mobile Internet, OpenSocial, social networks, Uncategorized, web 2.0, web 3.0
Tagged Android, Beacon, Facebook, Google, iPhone, OpenSocial, Rolf Skyberg, social networks, web 2.0, web 3.0
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Free (ad-based) Social Networks versus payed Social Networks
Rolf Skyberg posted his prediction that users will eventually pay to network, as free social networks tend to provide “value”a user is not really looking for. I have been thinking a lot about that since I started writing on my … Continue reading
Social Networks from the service creators point of view
There was a panel discussion organised at Picnic 2007. With Jyri Enstrom of Jaiku, Matt Biddulph of Dopplr, Felix Petersen of Plazes, Biz Stone of Twitter, and Raymond Spanjar of Hyves as panel members I was waiting for an interesting … Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Internet, Rolf Skyberg, social behavior, social network, web 2.0
Tagged Dopplr, Hyves, Jaiku, Mobile Internet, Picnic 2007, Plazes, Rolf Skyberg, social networks, Twitter
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Tara Hunt video presentation on Social Capital at Eday
Just saw a very nice and complete overview of all the different presentations at Eday in the Netherlands. Thanks to Frank Janssen of FrankWatching for this. One that stands out for me is the presentation by Tara Hunt, called “how … Continue reading
Posted in community marketing, Rolf Skyberg, social capital, Tara Hunt
Tagged community marketing, Rolf Skyberg, social capital, Tara Hunt
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Web 2.0 according to Rolf Skyberg of eBay
Marketingfacts pointed me to a nice presentation of Rolf Skyberg, disruptive innovator at eBay. Rolf discusses the evolution of the Internet and puts it into a historical context. When reading it this way, he shows us that the evolution to … Continue reading
Posted in eBay, evloution of the Internet, Rolf Skyberg, web 2.0
Tagged eBay, evloution of the Internet, Rolf Skyberg, web 2.0
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