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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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There is Life Beyond the Valley and they might just not speak English

Colin Henderson

Every once in a while I feel have to take the San Francisco echo chamber to task. It often happens around Le Web oddly enough. I have pasted a few comments from Roberts post below and you will get the idea. The premise is founded on the internet world being centred in California and the tools that are built there, including Twitter and Facebook. World-brand-building mistakes France’s entrepreneurs make | Scobleizer So, since you were meeting with us and since we’ve spent precious resources getting there and had sizeable opportunity costs, I figure entrepreneurs should be better prepared. In this … Continue reading There is Life Beyond the Valley and they might just not speak English

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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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State Department official, Jared Cohen, e-mailed Twitter – delay scheduled maintenance

Colin Henderson

This has little directly to do with banking per se, but it has a lot to do with information seeking, gathering, and the seismic shifts in how transparency of otherwise opaque bodies can be nullified by the internet tools available.  It is also just plain fascinating, and something all strategists should watch and try to understand. Whether this was innocent or otherwise, it appears to be a fact that it happened hence the significance.  Also read here for discussion and note the ‘informed’ comments.  One cannot help but think that there is something deliberate to all this, and even that … Continue reading State Department official, Jared Cohen, e-mailed Twitter – delay scheduled maintenance

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Real-time search – fact and fiction, and why?

Colin Henderson

One of the latest trends in ‘the valley’ is the notion of real time search.  This has been brought to highlight by twitter search.  While I understand the idea of real-time, the idea of applying the concept to the entire internet seems like a big job, and so it is with some scepticism that I hear people believe Twitter have solved that riddle. An example elsewhere in the text was of banks – their information is not real time.  Consider ATM deposits that appear on the next days date, or payroll electronic funds transfer which are deposited in batch mode … Continue reading Real-time search – fact and fiction, and why?