The above is a question I’ve been pondering a fair bit this weekend. Groupon is, after all, now valued at around $30 billion and is thus starting to attract some significant attention in both mainstream and online media. The striking …
How long before (some) blogs become considered mainstream media?
AOL have this morning announced a staggering $315 million acquisition of hit ‘internet newspaper’ The Huffington Post, in what is only the latest (and so far most expensive) deal in which the media giant has focused on buying up premium content …
Seven steps to a great social product – by Gina Bianchini (founder of Ning)
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This is worth checking out for anyone that’s missed it: a great and accessible overview (in the form of a guest post at Techcrunch) of seven key considerations for building a successful social product by someone who definitely knows a …
An interesting development in the Google vs. Facebook data reciprocity battle, courtesy of Techcrunch
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Well, the Techcrunch guys were quick onto this one – the story only hung around for about 10 minutes before ‘complications’ arose… Hats off to them for bringing us this curious latest development in the ongoing battle over data reciprocity …
An excellent introduction to viable consumer internet business models
There’s a couple of really interesting articles over at Techcrunch which I wanted to draw your attention to (since things move pretty fast over there, I think both are now on about page 5 of the archived posts). The post …