The term “social network” is pretty abstract with today’s social networks providing diverse ranges of functionality including entertainment, personal messaging, media sharing, self-expression, networking and gossip distribution. By “gossip”, I don’t mean negative or slanderous talk about others. More generally, I am referring to any casual information about other people in our social circles lives. [...]
Categories: Internet
Tagged: Communication, Distribution, Facebook, Gossip, Myspace, News Feed, Social Feed, Social Networking, Updates
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- February 12, 2008 – 3:59 pm
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- By seph250
Business Week has an interesting article Generation MySpace Is Getting Fed Up suggesting that social networks are being hurt by attempts at monetization. It has some interesting data points to analyze: The average amount of time each user spends on social networking sites has fallen by 14% over the last four months, according to market [...]
Categories: Internet
Tagged: Bubble, Comscore, Facebook, Internet, Myspace, Social Network
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- February 8, 2008 – 4:04 pm
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- By seph250
Marc Andreesen, successful entrepreneur (Mosaic, Netscape, Loudcloud) and investor (Digg, Plazes, Ning) provides a nice analysis of the potential effects of a Microsoft-Yahoo acquisition to the likelihood of smaller startups being acquired. His conclusion is that there will be no effect : The Microsoft/Yahoo deal, if it happens, means very little for the entrepreneurial climate [...]
Categories: Internet,Startups
Tagged: Internet, Microsoft, Search, Startups, Yahoo
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- February 6, 2008 – 9:25 pm
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- By seph250
Ashwin Navin, the president and founder of Bit Torrent Inc. gives a podcast describing how Bit Torrent Inc was started. Bit Torrent was originally an open source peer to peer file sharing protocol developed by Bram Cohen to deliver large amounts of data over the internet quickly. Initial users and evangelists of the protocol were [...]
Categories: Startups
Tagged: Bit Torrent, Media, Startup
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- February 5, 2008 – 11:47 pm
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- By seph250
A recent article on the Wired Blog details the strong response E-Bay users have had to a recent change in E-Bay’s user feedback rules. Apparently E-Bay wants to make it harder for store owners to post negative feedback about their customers. E-Bay suggests that there is increasingly “retaliatory feedback”. “We’ve seen a four-fold increase in [...]
Categories: Internet
Tagged: Credibility, E-Bay, Internet, Product Reviews
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- February 4, 2008 – 1:48 pm
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- By seph250
I’ve recently become a fan of Stanford Technology Ventures podcasts of interviews with entrepreneurs. What a great source for information directly from the mouths of successful entrepreneurs. To hear these points of view, you typically have to go to an expensive conference (or enroll in an MBA program) and Stanford lets you download them for [...]
Categories: Startups
Tagged: MBA, Podcasts, Stanford, Startup
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- February 3, 2008 – 10:13 pm
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- By seph250