General Posts Archive
Thinking About Alternative Revenue Models for Web Startups
0 Comments Published by Louis Adekoya November 11th, 2008 in All Business Ideas, Blog, General Posts, Web/techIn this post I look at Google’s revenue model to see how alternative billion dollar revenue models can be derived on the same principles, using Facebook and Twitter as examples. I say alternative because advertising, which basically is Google’s prime product serves only one of many business needs – gaining exposure. There are several other [...]
An Iphone App Store Lesson That Facebook Could Have Used A Year Ago
0 Comments Published by Louis Adekoya July 11th, 2008 in Blog, General Posts, Web/techAs I read here and here about the various examples of iPhone apps in the App Store today, it first occurred to me in a true case of web 2.0 warped thinking that people might not be willing to pay for the apps. But when I noticed that the majority of the apps cost between [...]
A Business Model for Twitter that Should be Obvious
3 Comments Published by Louis Adekoya June 19th, 2008 in Blog, General PostsAssuming Twitter can sort out its technology problems, I think I might have a business model for it. I feel though that it may be a bit presumptuous of me to think this given that greater minds (read the comments at the link) than mine have tried and apparently have so far failed to find [...]
Microsoft’s Biggest Strength – Hint, it’s not its Technology
2 Comments Published by Louis Adekoya May 5th, 2008 in Blog, General PostsIt’s no secret that Microsoft is desperate to become more relevant in the Internet world. The recent failed attempt to acquire Yahoo was just the latest in a series of efforts to at least maintain some semblance of competition with Google, which quite frankly is kicking Microsoft’s butt in that space. So why then is [...]
If You Build It Will They Come?
0 Comments Published by Louis Adekoya February 27th, 2008 in Blog, General PostsI have written here before about evaluating business ideas. Now I don’t know about you but I find that I am continually adjusting and fine-tuning my methods and criteria for assessing mine and other people’s ideas. Recently I read about YouNoodle – a controversial startup that allegedly claims to be able to predict the success [...]
Better Google Results through Click Monitoring
0 Comments Published by Louis Adekoya February 9th, 2008 in Blog, General PostsMuch is often made of how Google could improve search results (or do a lot of evil) by learning from our search histories. Since there are a lot of valid privacy concerns with that approach, I think Google could still improve results considerably by learning from a user’s result-clicks within a search session. As an [...]
Create Your Own Homework
0 Comments Published by Louis Adekoya December 15th, 2007 in All Business Ideas, Blog, General PostsLately I have been thinking of learning Ruby, Python or similar to develop working prototypes of some of my ideas. It occurs to me that it would be a good idea for someone to offer a training course in programming where the student brings an idea that they want to implement and over the duration of the [...]
Is the Advertising Model Holding Back the Next Web, a.k.a The Graph?
1 Comment Published by Louis Adekoya November 24th, 2007 in Blog, General PostsSir Tim Berners-Lee – often referred to as the founder of the World Wide Web – recently posted about what he has labelled “The Graph” – the next level of what was initially the Internet (a network of computers) and later the World Wide Web. As I understand it, Sir Tim envisions a world where, we have [...]
Open Social Is No Social Networking Nirvana
0 Comments Published by Louis Adekoya November 4th, 2007 in Blog, General Posts, Web/techIn this post I outline a few features that I hoped Open Social was about but quickly learnt it wasn’t. When I first read the name of Google’s recent social networking play ‘Open Social’, I immediately made a connection with Open ID, expecting to read that it was finally a way to have one base [...]
A Facebook and Yahoo Partnership That Could Trouble Google
0 Comments Published by Louis Adekoya October 15th, 2007 in Blog, General Posts, Web/techIt is no secret that Facebook needs to find a way to monetise and that Yahoo needs to close the gap on Google. My proposal for a Yahoo and Facebook partnership that might address both problems is as follows: Yahoo to provide an in-Facebook web search facility with an agreed ad-revenue split between the two. [...]