Archive for June, 2006
Progress update: Production office up and running!
I’m returning to Amsterdam today from Krakow. Marcin has got the new office set up and the guys started programming this week. We were busy running around, including buying new equipment and meeting with the lawyers and accountants. We also met Piotr, our wireframes designer in Warsaw.
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30 Jun
The MySpace Bubble
(Forbes) If you haven’t yet directed your Web browser to MySpace.com or a site of its ilk, you’re late to a very crowded party. More than 70 million Americans visited a social networking site in April, according to Nielsen NetRatings–that’s nearly half of the U.S. Internet audience. More…
29 Jun
YouTube taking the world by storm
(silicon.com) The craze of sharing videos online is growing at a rate of knots and leading the way is YouTube.com which has come from nowhere to be the web’s fastest growing phenomenon in just six months. More…
28 Jun
The Valley of Death, Another Boomer Test
(New York Times) Americans still work out at health clubs because it is not yet fashionable to get sick and die. But in a few years, the baby boomers are going to be entering the prime perishing years, and we all know what that means. They’re going to turn dying into a form of self-expression.
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25 Jun
Social Media and Network Effects
(BusinessWeek) I was talking recently with Ben McConnell and Jackie Hubb, consultants who run the Church of the Customer blog, and they explained their theories on the rise of customer evangelism. One point that struck me was the role that the services such as Flickr and YouTube have had in making social media take off. Putting up a video clip or a photo is an expression of self creativity and is another form of media that contributes to the splintering of the mass market.
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21 Jun
