How do locals go global?
I often get asked to listen to pitches for new web companies, mostly with the idea of offering advice, suggestions or helping someone take a project to the next level. I am always eager to participate in these sessions, because it gives me a good idea of how people perceive the opportunities that the [...]
Who’s where doing what on web 2.0…
Business Week feature an excellent chart that neatly sums up the state of the web wrt to the US audience.
They divide the web audience into six categories:
Creators publish web pages, write blogs, upload videos
Critics comment on blogs and post ratings and reviews
Collectors use RSS to gather information
Joiners use social networking sites
Spectators read blogs, watch videos, [...]
If I owned FaceBook, I’d licence it out.
Yahoo has tried to buy Facebook for an initial price of $750 million, and supposedly took the offer all the way up to $1.6 billion before the end of the talks. According to Executive Summary, which uses a leaked slide of Yahoo’s evaluation techniques and projects them for current figures, Facebook is now [...]
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