by Tom | Feb 1, 2001 | General
communities can scale (although their numbers show that revenue per repeat visitor for community sites is lower than other types of site);most major marketing efforts didn’t work (i.e. $25m spend per quarter to recoup $30m a year);traditional models are working...
by Tom | Jan 31, 2001 | General
The street performer protocol. An interesting addition to the how do we pay for copyright material on the web debate. Did Stephen King read this before or after he did his web publishing experiment?
by Tom | Jan 30, 2001 | General
Useful summary of why screen and paper are different for readers and authors, and also how to train people to write for the screen / screen and paper.Face-mail could be the next big thing. More wooden than Liz Hurley, and less attractive.I think the tenor of this...
by Tom | Jan 23, 2001 | General
Here’s an interesting article talking about MojoNation, a fully peer-to-peer distribution system.The Paris Metro Pricing system. Essentially have a first class that looks like the second class but costs twice as much. Only those people who really cared about it...
by Tom | Jan 22, 2001 | General
Self-organising websites (think Slashdot / ePinions) are an interesting phenomenon. With the technology to spot click circles mentioned in the piece, they just might work.Interesting piece on why mobile web services haven’t taken off yet.A disposable cell phone....
