As more and more startups launch on an advertising-only revenue model (i.e. offer products/services for free to generate traffic and make money from ads), an idea occurs to me of how competition might evolve in the wonderful world of the Internet over the next few years.
Given that many of these ad-supported web apps operate in the same […]

Over the last month or so I have come across Spigit (a startup for startups) a few times. On each occasion I have admittedly been in a hurry, but each write up I read on the company, including those from the its own FAQs page, left me not much the wiser about what exactly Spigit was offering. I […]

I am avid reader of tech blogs and follower of most things Web 2.0 but I realised recently that I tend to ignore posts or news relating to the following:

Digg - just never got into it.
User Generated Video - I tend only to be interested in videos about startups and the occasional comedy clip sent to me […]

A few months ago I responded to a question on LinkedIn about expectations/visions for the future. One of the points in my vision was for us to be able to do the following directly on our living room TV sets:

Find content that people in our social entertainment networks are watching or have recommended.
Search for and […]

The other day, I stumbled upon a few of my old ideas that were dumb at the time I conceived them, but which when viewed with a web 2.0 lens appeared, well - a little less dumb.
1. Gadget Test Drives - my vision was for some very large physical facility where gadget lovers could go to try gadgets before shelling […]

Seeing the mixed reactions in the comments of this techcrunch post, to recently launched WebbAlert, it occurs to me that there may be a good business opportunity in providing a platform for anyone to do something similar. It got me thinking, is there a website today that enables its users to send in video or audio clips of themselves […]

It is a worrying trend in the wonderful world of Web 2.0 that web businesses are increasingly fixated on growing user numbers, almost as though that were a goal in itself.
You would think it was obvious that making money is the goal and that whether you make this money by charging a fee to a few […]

This doesn’t appear to have been reported widely in the blogosphere but ads are apparently being pulled from Facebook by some high-profile advertisers, including AA, First Direct and Vodafone, because their ads were being displayed on the Facebook group profile of the British National Party (BNP) - a controversial far-right party in the United Kingdom.