Archives for Business
Who's afraid of Ashley Highfield? (July 19, 2006) Today it was announced that the BBC's New Media operations are going to be restructured radically. At the moment most of the content creation parts of the organisation are kind of co-owned - for example, Simon Nelson who was the...
How American are Startups? (May 17, 2006) The second day of XTech and the first day of the conference proper (yesterday being tutorials) starts with a keynote from Paul Graham (see his Wikipedia entry) talking about whether or not the success of Silicon Valley might be replicated...
Is it a good time to start a business? (April 2, 2006) There have been a few pretty fascinating posts roaming around the blogosphere recently, and I thought I'd reference them a little more fully than normal not only because they're particularly interesting but also because they illustrate the possibilities of conversation...
What do we do with 'social media'? (March 31, 2006) I'm a nervous public speaker, and so when I was asked to talk at the Guardian Changing Media Summit, I started to scratch out some notes about specifically what I'd say about Social Media. When I'm talking, I never really...
A response to the rhetoric of weblog marketing... (September 22, 2005) The story so far... Ben Metcalfe takes a vague swipe at the Stormhoek wine that Hugh MacLeod is marketing through the blogosphere. The approach Hugh is taking is to offer free bottles of the wine to webloggers on the understanding...
Where are all the UK start-ups? (July 25, 2005) I find myself thinking of my country and my industry - and what I see confuses and confounds me. This is a tiny little country that remains a world power, one of the few trillion dollar economies in the world....
On the potential for browsers to replace all local advertising... (March 1, 2005) I'm a bit confused by all the kerfuffle around the Google toolbar rewriting links on people's sites. I mean, for the most part it looks like it's an opt-in thing and I don't see that this is a particular problem....
A critical mass of photograph swappers... (March 5, 2004) Everyone at ETCon had a Mac. Or at least pretty much everyone at ETCon had a Mac. And pretty much everyone was using the wifi network in the conference rooms. And - much like last time - loads of people...
On the benefits of competing audio formats... (January 27, 2004) There's a fascinating clump of posts going around the place at the moment about the various DRM-based digital audio solutions that you can buy at the moment. The one that kicked stuff off initially was a post on The Sobleizer...
On Wonkette and the rest of Gawker media... (January 24, 2004) So Nick Denton's Gawker media has released its latest offspring into the world, and so far (particularly after the enormous success of fleshbot) it doesn't look like much of a contender. Wonkette has been described as Gawker for DC (by...
On The Guts of a New Machine (Part Two) (November 30, 2003) My second response to a chunk in The New York Times article The Guts of a New Machine concerns the comments of Rob Glaser from RealNetworks. You can read my first response (on rapid design processes) here. Three visions of...
Yahoo's "Pay for position" program... (February 3, 2001) Yahoo launches a 'pay for position' program which takes the biggest (and one of the last) purely editorially-led directory sites slap bang into the commercial age of post-banner-ad dot-communism. All fairness to them - it's only in the Business categories,...
