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User-generated blues

By On November 22, 2008 · 1 Comment

Remember when user-generated content was all the buzz? It still is in the social networking space. Facebook is nearly 100% user-generated content, but where’s the business model?

Facebook is top dog in social networking, but it’s number one among the most fickle user base. Not too long ago all your Facebook friends were on [...]

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Visualizing data

By On August 31, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Earlier this week the NY Times ran a piece about the experimental website Many-Eyes.com. At first glance the site is every statistician’s nightmare — the marriage of complex visual interpretation and social networking. Being a believer in the wisdom of the [...]

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Of social networks and cable TV

By On March 22, 2008 · Leave a Comment

This week’s Economist features a brief analysis of the social networking boom and where it all might lead. Some interesting parallels were brought to the fore. Among them:

AOL’s acquisition of Bebo is much like Microsoft’s acquisition of Hotmail a decade ago. And that the network effect still holds.

Social networks as they [...]

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Old media bubble?

By On May 24, 2006 · 5 Comments

Fascinating report out from Kagan Research earlier today. The report notes that even though cinema is the text book definition of a mature industry, private equity money keeps pouring in to the industry.

“This volatile business, amazingly, never seems to be short of investment capital,” notes Wade Holden, analyst with Kagan Research. “One big [...]

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