If you’ve been with us for the long ride then you’ll know by now that the most popular posts on this blog have been about how to make money developing Apps and Games for the iPhone. For some unknown reason Google continues to bless us with high page rankings whenever we touch base with the Long Tail… [Read more…]
June 25, 2010
A few weeks back we had a look at the Google Economy. Now let’s take a quick look at the Apple App Economy and compare notes. You may already be aware that Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster declared this week that, even though app sales had totalled total $1.43 billion since the launch of the store… [Read more…]
June 22, 2010
In the first wave of the internet it was relatively easy for the Banks to reduce their costs of doing business while simultaneously increasing their fees. Essentially they had little to no competition in the credit and settlements markets. All they had to do was migrate their customers onto DIY Banking Portals and profit from providing… [Read more…]
June 21, 2010
If you’ve tagged along for the journey over the past 9 months you will know that we have posed the question is it really possible to monetize a social network more than once. In that time we have demonstrated why being sticky isn’t enough to make Social Networks profitable and explored some of the options that… [Read more…]
June 20, 2010
At the beginning of this month Fred Wilson took a quick look at the advertising industry data Martin Langeveld had prepared for Hal Varian “experiment, Experiment, Experiment” presentation to the newspapers and rapturously proclaimed that the 5% growth in online advertising was “That is the most bullish signal about investing in the Internet that I have seen… [Read more…]
June 17, 2010
This is the companion piece to last month’s post on what Apple can teach the newspapers about innovation. I thought it was worth exploring simply because although Apple was rated number one and Google number two in Business Week’s Top 50 Most Innovative Companies the two approaches to innovation are very, very different. For example, Google… [Read more…]
June 12, 2010
In January we witnessed the battle of the Silicon Valley heavy weights: Apple vs Google. The iPad vs the Nexus One. To product launches. Two very different marketing strategies. One very clear winner. So why did Google’s much touted innovation model fail so miserably when it went head to head with Apple? I could say… [Read more…]
June 9, 2010
The news last month that the next James Bond film was being shelved because the producers couldn’t secure the investment funding in these difficult economic times left me wondering why there wasn’t a web site out there offering futures exchange on Block Buster Movies. If you’re a budding producer or director you could put your… [Read more…]
June 9, 2010
The launch of the latest iteration of Google’s search engine (codename: caffeine) provides me with the opportunity to revisit the challenge of delivering real time search to the web. Google’s spin on this latest iteration is it provides “50% fresher results for web searches than our last index, it’s the largest collection of web content… [Read more…]
June 8, 2010
The Fast Company’s Top 100 Creative People in Business for 2010 makes for some interesting analysis. It comes as no surprise to discover in the Top 50 that “Creative Men” out number “Creative Women” by factor of 3 to 1 and that somebody from Apple (2) made it into the Top 10. Of the other players… [Read more…]
June 29, 2010
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