Category Archives: trends

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 →

Posted in advertising, attention, business, data, future, market, media, strategy, trends | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

The useful convergence of data

Posted on January 3, 2008 by

I have only one prediction for 2008. I think we’re finally about to see the useful combination of the 4 W’s – Who, What, Where, and When. Marc Davis has done some interesting research in this area at Yahoo!, and … Continue reading →

Posted in behavior, community, data, design, future, ideas, identity, innovation, local, marketing, personalization, programmableweb, recommendations, semanticweb, social, theory, trends | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

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 →

Posted in behavior, community, creativity, data, delicious, design, dopplr, edge, flickr, future, ideas, innovation, internet, models, network effects, platform, programmableweb, recommendations, social media, strategy, transparency, trends, twitter, visualization, web services, wesabe | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 6 Comments

The problem with being popular (part 2)

Posted on November 19, 2007 by

One of the more interesting sciences, in my mind, is how information relevance is both determined, surfaced and then evolved. In Fred Wilson’s recent Cautionary Techmeme Tale he argues that making news popular takes away its social context and therefore … Continue reading →

Posted in attention, behavior, community, culture, media, peer production, personalization, recommendations, social media, theory, trends, yahoo | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Building community is hard

Posted on October 15, 2007 by

Jay Rosen has an interesting post on the failure of AssignmentZero, an effort to build a publicly funded crowdsourced news organization. Among the many lessons, he keeps coming back to motivation and incentive. “A well managed project correctly estimates what … Continue reading →

Posted in citizen media, citizenjournalism, collaboration, community, innovation, journalism, media, news, participation, peer production, social media, startup, trends | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

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 →

Posted in advertising, behavior, dareobasanjo, data, development, future, ideas, identity, innovation, jasonkottke, marketing, media, models, network, network effects, nick carr, participation, peer production, personalization, platform, recommendations, semanticweb, social media, strategy, trends | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

Getting back to basics

Posted on April 25, 2007 by

There was something really depressing about Web 2.0 Expo that I can’t quite put my finger on. Though when I woke up Monday morning after a weekend of working on my house it started to become more clear. On Friday … Continue reading →

Posted in creativity, culture, history, internet, trends | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

The StumbleUpon effect is real

Posted on April 18, 2007 by

The StumpleUpon acquisition rumor is interesting if not a bit weird, but it doesn’t surprise me that they are being taken seriously. They weren’t really on my radar until I recently looked at the traffic reports for my wife’s blog, … Continue reading →

Posted in helpthing, metrics, stats, stumbleupon, traffic, trends | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Gatekeepers need to stop calling themselves gatekeepers

Posted on April 11, 2007 by

Time business columnist Justin Fox questioned the success of the new media methods in a recent post “The reign of the enthusiasts“. He suggests the algorithms that proudly surface the deep dark corners of the Internet are actually just self-referential … Continue reading →

Posted in behavior, blogging, google, mainstream media, media, msm, publishing, recommendations, search, socialmedia, socialsearch, success, trends | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

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 →

Posted in advertising, attention, feedburner, history, ideas, innovation, journalism, management, marketing, media, models, peer production, process, publishing, rightmedia, rss, strategy, trends, webservices | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments