After writing my last post, I circulated it to a mailing list and had a bunch of nice responses. There was some interesting conversation and some interesting ideas, which is always a good thing. One interesting email came from a business school classmate of mine who’s working on an interesting concept to disrupt [...]
Posts under ‘internet’
Apples and oranges, an EU Zappos?
Okay, this is going to be my last post around cultures in Europe, I promise (fingers crossed behind my back just in case).
Tech Crunch UK Europe (sorry Mike) has a post up about Spartoo.com raising 12M Euros today, calling the company the “Zappos of Europe”, sure Zappos and Spartoo both sell shoes, have an s [...]
Some thoughts for 2010
Had an interesting back and forth this morning with my friend Natasja about best of versus prediction lists. I like being nostalgic, but my preference is for thinking forward. Natasja’s point about lists being based on the “now” and not saying anything new, is a good one. But still which trends are [...]
Owning the conversation
I love Disqus. It’s made managing comments on my blog pretty easy, between that and Facebook, I feel like I can engage with the people who read my posts pretty well. I own the conversation. I can’t always control where the discussion goes, and nor do I want to, I’m not a [...]
Being amazing
Umair Haque wrote a post for the Harvard Business Blog a couple of months ago talking about “Awesomeness”, the principal being that being Awesome will trump innovation. Personally, I prefer amazing to awesome. Being amazing… well it amazes. It leaves people with their jaw open, tweeting people, facebooking people, whatever it [...]
My thoughts on LeWeb 09
Earlier this year, I set myself some objectives and gave my year a theme. 2009 was to be the year of “Learning to do”. I spent previous years, thinking, pontificating, learning but not really doing much. So, I told myself that by LeWeb in 2009 I wanted to have done some stuff [...]
Beyond Google part two, for marketing
Duane over at Kashflow wrote a great blog post about SEO as a marketing strategy over at the Kashflow blog. I couldn’t agree more. His main point is summed up nicely in this bit:
“Whilst free traffic (as opposed to paid-for Adwords) is highly desirable – and we certainly do well from it ourselves [...]
Beyond Google part one
There’s lots of news around Newscorp and getting Google to pay for the content on Newscorp newspapers. I don’t like is companies using Google as a scapegoat.
Newscorp feels that Google should be paying for access. MSFT is talking about paying Newscorp for their content. The rationale being that perhaps this will [...]
Give stuff away, offer value, make money
Two articles today got me thinking about giving stuff away to make money.
First a survey on the Independent shows that on average people who admit to illegally downloading music actually spend more on music than those who claim that they never down music dishonestly. I totally buy this. People who download music illegally [...]
Tip Black Tech
Is Google wave overhyped? Maybe. Is it a wash of productivity destruction and the worst of IM and email? Maybe. *Robert Scoble seems to think this about Google Wave and a whole lot worse. But people said the same thing about Facebook, and then joined and spent hours daily on it. [...]