Mr. Arrington, I also want a TechCrunch50 recognition
The post that TechCrunch’s Michael Arrignton wrote about Jason Calacanis‘s threat to sue them for launching a new competitor for TechCrunch50 startup competition, really called my attention. It was extremely personal (this type of things do not happen in Europe) and sounded like a bloody battle about who had the idea first.
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Should journalism be just a hobby?
One of the last meetups I attended in Silicon Valley was by Tom Foremski, former columnist of The Financial Times, at the Jewish High Tech Community. He left his job as a paid journalist to start a new blog and he’s being doing well for a while. Not any more, as the advertising industry’s crisis is also hitting him.
Extortion 2.0 and my frustration with Web 2.0
I have the impression that Web 2.0 is getting very similar to what old media looked like. Marketing is pushing in the most horrible practices and honesty is abandoning us. Some bloggers are getting paid for advertising their customers or increasing their SEO egos and some social networks are falling down into what Brian Solis describes as Extortion 2.0.
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The 10 new laws of Cyberspace
As social networks are increasing its use and social media get most of the traffic on the Internet, scientists are developing new theories which explain how the Cyberspace work. Some of them, as the long tail or de 6 degrees, are quite known. But there are many more.
What do companies use Web 2.0 for?
The Economist Intelligence Unit has a very interesting report on the use of Web 2.0 tools inside companies (“Web 2.0 goes corporate”). The conclusion is that almost everybody believes these technologies have a potential to increase revenues. In fact, ROI is what is stopping these tools from boosting.
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My 2009 predictions
It’s time to put my finger on the air and throw up some tech predictions for 2009. As always, I will try to concrete them all, so that my chances of mistaking myself will be very strong. BTW, last year I got some of them, even if I did not anticipate some things which finally became true: Facebook Connect (we all thought Google would do this), the growth of social network Tuenti in Spain, Mobuzz in bankruptcy or the Obama effect on Politics 2.0 maturity.
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eBay is the fastest growing brand in the world
eBay is a model company, as it holds inside some of those things we talk about day after day: viral marketing, collaboration, P2P, users’ networks, contents filtering… that is, social software. And eBay is not just a profitable social software company, but also one of the main employers in the US (it has more people working for it than McDonald’s) and the fastest growing brand in the world.
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