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Thoughts on future of Social Media

Colin Henderson

FT Front page: Twitter rival Mastodon rejects funding to protect non-profit status Twitter rival Mastodon has rejected more than five investment offers from Silicon Valley venture capital firms in recent months, as its founder pledged to protect the fast-growing social media platform’s non-profit status. With that headline the FT managed to simultaneously raise what could be seen as a small decision point in VC Land but also raises discussion on social networking to the fore. There is also the small matter of Musk but I am going to ignore that and stay on the business prospects and implications here. Why is … Continue reading Thoughts on future of Social Media

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On privacy and the new publicy | what is a bank to do?

Colin Henderson

There is a theme developing that we may all wish to consider and begin thinking about. It goes to to the core of what many/most believe but the challenge remains … coming, and it is coming fast. First this from Mark Zuckerberg in an interview with an unusually passive non-alpha Mike Arrington where he (Mark) indicates the notion of retaining information privately in Facebook is gone, and was a mistake to have thought about it that way from the beginning. See ReadWriteWeb for Marshals views. Crunchies Next is the ever thoughtful JP who has been pounding on the Facebookisation of … Continue reading On privacy and the new publicy | what is a bank to do?

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Thoughts on the real-time web, and the fallacy of the wisdom of crowds

Colin Henderson

The big meme at the moment is the real-time web. I have a couple of points to make here, that might help understand the current state of internet. If like me you are fed up of hearing CNN reporters say "and over here on Twitter mightymouse says ….. " then read on, and hopefully this helps define your own perspective. The broad notion of real time is that the internet is series of information snippets that can be pulled together from disparate sources across the web. By immersing yourself in this pool of information through tools such as twitter, Facebook, … Continue reading Thoughts on the real-time web, and the fallacy of the wisdom of crowds

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On VRM, Facebook, and being misunderstood for long periods of time

Colin Henderson

I simply love this post at RWW.  The post is about how FaceBook could turn on the power of their userbase to the benefit of consumer power.  I have long been a fan of VRM and at the same time at something of a loss to see how it could be initiated.  Then I read this post, and new lights went on. The post is about FaceBook, but it is less about them, than it is about business models for dot.com companies with large userbases who insist on following tradigital advertising models. The whole ‘We have lots of eyeballs so … Continue reading On VRM, Facebook, and being misunderstood for long periods of time