Category Archives: strategy

Positioning real-time web platforms

Posted on October 22, 2009 by Matt McAlister

Like many people, I’ve been thinking a lot about the live nature of the web more and more recently. The startup world has gone mad for it. And though I think Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie played down the … Continue reading →

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Openness, evil and reusability

Posted on May 19, 2008 by Matt McAlister

I’ve stopped blogging over the last several weeks as I uprooted my family and moved to London to start my new job. But there have been some interesting things worth tracking recently I thought I might mention. (Interestingly, Twitter usurped … Continue reading →

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Creating leverage at the data layer

Posted on March 18, 2008 by Matt McAlister

There’s a reason that the world fully embraced HTTP but not Gopher or Telnet or even FTP. That’s because the power of the Internet is best expressed through the concept of a network, lots of interlinked pieces that make up … Continue reading →

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Building markets out of data

Posted on January 4, 2008 by

I’m intrigued by the various ways people view ‘value’. There seem to be 2 camps: 1) people who view the world in terms of competition for finite resources and 2) people who see ways to create new forms of value … Continue reading →

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The Internet’s secret sauce: surfacing coincidence

Posted on December 14, 2007 by

What is it that makes my favorite online services so compelling? I’m talking about the whole family of services that includes Dopplr, Wesabe, Twitter, Flickr, and del.icio.us among others. I find it interesting that people don’t generally refer to any … Continue reading →

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Ikea ruined my floors

Posted on September 6, 2007 by

My second child is due next week. I intended to reconfigure our 1-bedroom house to create 2-bedrooms so that all 4 of us and the dog could spread out a bit. Some amazing software from Google and Ikea made me … Continue reading →

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The business of network effects

Posted on August 15, 2007 by

The Internet platform business has some unique challenges. It’s very tempting to adopt known models to make sense of it, like the PC business, for example, and think of the Internet platform like an operating system. The similarities are hard … Continue reading →

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Media As A Service

Posted on April 2, 2007 by

Much like print and tv are becoming marketing vehicles to drive people online, the domain name for an online media service is becoming sort of an abstract utility or maybe just a brand address for media services rather than the … Continue reading →

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InfoWorld to close magazine business

Posted on March 24, 2007 by

Rex Hammock and Valleywag tip us off to Sam Whitmore’s MediaSurvey piece on the closure of InfoWorld’s magazine operation. Though still rumor at this point, the news doesn’t surprise me one bit. The “enterprise fleet”, as former IDG President Pat … Continue reading →

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Membership has its privileges

Posted on February 13, 2007 by

Mark Glaser asks his readers this week to submit the answer to the following question: “What would motivate you to contribute to a citizen media site?” I can’t imagine that anyone is going to be able to answer that question … Continue reading →

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