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Re: Where To Go For Inspiration?

mjm — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:47:45 -0000

I think you are correct. The major tech blogs simply compete as news organizations - who can be the first to break a story. There is very little thoughtful analysis.

Re: Heading For The Exit Lane

mjm — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:44:00 -0000

The sky is falling, the sky is falling.......come on. We pay US$8.40 plus per gallon here in Germany and have for some time. You will get used to it and as a result start to conserve energy. The sun will still rise again tomorrow.

Re: TravelMuse launches a good looking vacation recommendations site

mjm — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:31:41 -0000

Its a well presented site. But why does this site exist? We have enough travel recommendation sites and lets face it, there is more than enough travel media available.

The target audience is too broad. There is no focus or editorial voice. The content is very "me too". Very little here that is "authentic".

Nice design. Great colors. Nice packaging. But no real business........

Re: Endless Conversation: The Unfolding Saga of Blogs, Twitter, Friendfeed, and Social Sites [Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog]

mjm — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:05:54 -0000

twitter and friend feed are compressing time.......the synchronous web....but are they all that conceptually different than msn messenger was at that point in the conversation? i there is value in that the technology makes it easier to participate...and as some wise man once wrote...web 2.0 is all about participation.

Re: Social Network Sites Are The Emperor’s New Clothes

mjm — Tue, 20 May 2008 05:12:34 -0000

neil. won't the basis of value change over time as "social networks" change?

won't data portability enable growth opportunities (by lessening user friction) for new communities focused on specific interests, while creating pressure to maintain scale for large sites such as FB? creation. destruction. creation.

this debate reminds me of the first social network - AOL. as AOL gained traction there was a significant conversation around prospects for their "walled garden" versus the world wide web. we know who won that argument.

at the time, the issue of data portability came to the fore front with the IM. would AOl allow other IM's (Yahoo for example or MSN Messenger) to interconnect? eventually consumers required it and AOL yielded....

if the large social networks don;t give users what they want, someone else will........

Re: Social Networking Sites: Dead in Two Years

mjm — Thu, 22 May 2008 04:27:49 -0000

Certainly the "extended web" is quickly becoming a reality. Mobile will be an important interface, as will specific desktop applications.

We still need a "container" for all this data and the large social sites will likely continue to play a role as a data pool. Think "yellow pages" for the web - basically a social index server.

The interesting social interactions are going to devolve to smaller communities of common interest. There are over 4000 social networks now and many of the faster growing communities are thematic.

And younger people will use FB and others as the new "email", e-invite and e-match.com where the size of the communities actually works for them....

What a wonderful new world we live in.

Re: Is Web 2.0 Joining the Deadpool?

mjm — Tue, 27 May 2008 11:33:01 -0000

This sounds like a post from 1999 or 2000....

Many Web 1.0 managed to gain revenue traction. Web 2.0 will also.

The differences today though are worth noting. In 2000 the web was essentially a medium for communications and information exchange. Transactions were just emerging.

Today, we have an enhanced capability as a communications platform (FB, MySpace), transactions are evolving towards services and we can now overlay content distribution and creation. It is a much broader set of addressable opportunities.

Secondly, the quality of consumer technology is now at a standard similiar to or better than enterprise level. So, cost of deployment is far less.

I think the future is pretty bright. The Valley is usually early and in this case probably right.

Re: FriendFeed Fans Fantasize About Death of Twitter

mjm — Tue, 27 May 2008 11:36:26 -0000

I use both as well. I am interested in understanding why one is gaining dominance or traction while the other is not. The story is unfolding before us and it is an interesting case.....

Any thoughts on why Twitter is gaining release velocity?

Re: Want Some Invites to Pheltup?

mjm — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:20:37 -0000

This is an amateurish attempt at a new product intro, that it is comical. Are these ex-myspace marketing execs?

Re: 2008/05/17/facebook-cable-company/

mjm — Sun, 18 May 2008 05:01:19 -0000

To be a bit more "balanced", is a increasingly frequently used analogy. why? valuation. FB and MyS are presented as the next Big 3 of the media space...it is a pretty easy story for a fund manager to understand

Re: 2008/05/17/facebook-cable-company/

mjm — Sun, 18 May 2008 05:01:45 -0000

To be a bit more "balanced", this is a increasingly frequently used analogy. why? valuation. FB and MyS are presented as the next Big 3 of the media space...it is a pretty easy story for a fund manager to understand

Re: Lycos Europe Courts AOL, Others; Asks For $315.2 Million: Report

mjm — Tue, 27 May 2008 15:39:11 -0000

While I can understand buying a growing business, why would anyone buy a dying business for Euro200 million?

If this deal gets done the bankers will really have earned their fee...