The idea is for a web application sort of like Facebook but for sharing stuff with your inner circle of friends and family members and with a focus on sharing sparingly – only relevant stuff. The premise here is that I still share a lot of stuff (links and media) by email with some of [...]

Perhaps Foursquare and Gowalla already have this on their roadmaps but it seems to me that they are missing a trick right now in not including a seemingly obvious feature. When I check-in to an establishment, the establishment should have the option of displaying to me a mini mobile website, to which it publishes content [...]

It pains me to give this idea away (if there is such a thing) but no doubt people up and down the tech world are right now brainstorming copy cat or spin-off ideas to ChatRoulette and someone’s bound to have thought of this already and is probably working on it as I write. I suppose [...]

Still on Facebook and conversion, what if people who click on your Facebook ad could be greeted with “Dear John” (or whatever their name was) when they arrived on your landing page instead of a generic “Dear Facebook User”? Facebook would of course need a user’s permission to do this and if they hadn’t received [...]

I am new to Twitter so I am still learning to tell my RTs from my @replies, DMs and hashtags – or is that #tags? Anyway, I think there might be some combination of all these Twitter elements that might enable it to support the implementation of a tool that I have long wished was [...]

One of my favourite products from this year’s Demo show was Zuora’s Z-Commerce for Facebook. With Facebook having failed to give application developers a way to sell their apps to users a la the iPhone’s app store, most of the developers have had to resort to free, frivolous apps that they then look to monetise [...]

Just watched the demo09 presentation by the company 7 Billion People. They operate in the space that I have repeatedly suggested Facebook should focus on – Conversion. My thinking is that assuming it is technically feasible, adding Facebook data to the algorithms that 7 Billion People currently uses in customising e-commerce user experiences could significantly [...]

Image via CrunchBase Happy New Year. It’s been a while since my last post, in which I explored conversion as a potential alternative revenue model to advertising for web startups. In this post I want to explore a way in which Facebook could make money from conversion. Remember that like Google, Facebook already enjoys a [...]

If you are a web developer then you have no doubt rolled your eyes more than once at a suggestion by some wannabe entrepreneur like me that you should work on his brilliant idea for equity. We all know what your answer was – naff off or some less polite variation of the phrase. That [...]

In 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 [...]