Fred Wilson writes a cautionary tale of Techmeme. He’s watched his own and other blogs written by individuals fall off Techmeme to have their place taken by professional news services and other aggregators. He has some concern that part of it may be his writing isn’t as interesting as it was when it was on the Techmeme leaderboard, but he … Read More ›
Month: November 2007
IBM has released a fascinating report that heralds what it calls the end of advertising. One of the more fascinating items in the report is the result that 11% of those surveyed would pay a small premium to have a service without advertising. This is something I’ve proposed before, and I believe it would actually result in more revenue for … Read More ›
It’s time to monetize the social networks. They’re near their hype peaks, significant competitive activity from Google is at the doorstep, and they’ve gotten really big and have commensurate large burn rates. MySpace alone has hired 150 people from places like Google, Microsoft, and eBay to focus on monetization. That’s real money to pay 150 salaries for such folks. How … Read More ›