netjacobsson.com » blogoshpere http://netjacobsson.com Thu, 03 May 2012 15:24:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 On SocialNets & The Power of The URL http://netjacobsson.com/2006/04/05/on-socialnets-the-power-of-the-url/ http://netjacobsson.com/2006/04/05/on-socialnets-the-power-of-the-url/#comments Wed, 05 Apr 2006 11:02:19 +0000 Net http://netjacobsson.com/?p=467 Robert Young, a frequent guest columnist on OM Malik’s Blog, has written a very accurate description about the changing media landscape and the power balance between consumers and corporations. The post is called: Social Nets and the power of the URL.

According to Young, one of the most effective ways to [...]]]> Robert Young, a frequent guest columnist on OM Malik’s Blog, has written a very accurate description about the changing media landscape and the power balance between consumers and corporations. The post is called: Social Nets and the power of the URL.

According to Young, one of the most effective ways to measure the shifting balance of power between consumers and corporations it to look at the web as a huge collection of URL’s (I would call it the WebDNA), and then distinguish those URL’s that are controlled by corporations vs consumers.

Simply put, each and every URL should be viewed as a container for content that, in turn, can be distributed and redistributed. And the control of such distribution is increasingly in the hands of consumers, not corporations.

I like that precise definition, it really is what it all boils down to. That is why I prefer to call the URL’s for the WebDNA. Towards the end of the post he envisions the future of people powered community based-distribution networks:

Looking out several years, it’s not too difficult to envision a media landscape where the majority of traditional media distribution outlets reliant on the benefits of natural monopoly economics have largely been replaced with a highly-fragmented layer of people-powered community-based distribution networks.

I really believe that this is what we are going to see, in a way one could refer to “people-powered community-based distribution networks” as a true democratic economy, really even going beyond democracy in the sense that it is both empowering and rewarding the individual.

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Yesterday I had the honor to sit in on a meeting arranged by CRV, with Naval Ravikant, founder of Epinions, and a number of other start-ups, as well as a former VC -guy with a dozen investment, and currently back in the start-up business again as founder and CEO for

Yesterday I had the honor to sit in on a meeting arranged by CRV, with Naval Ravikant, founder of Epinions, and a number of other start-ups, as well as a former VC -guy with a dozen investment, and currently back in the start-up business again as founder and CEO for Vast. Naval was invited by CRV do give a Web 2.0 overview – and I must say that it was the best presentation and overview I have ever heard about the topic. Straight to the point, what works, why it works, when to invest, and what’s next (which of course nobody has any clue of…).

Naval’s current company Vast, also had its launch yesterday and looks very promising indeed. Vast is a search service that extracts classified ads from across the web, structures them, and then makes them available via an open REST API for commercial and non-commercial uses.

In more detail Naval says that Vast:

  • Is crawling the web and large parts of the blogosphere with a general crawler, similar to the ones operated by Yahoo!, Google, Ask, MSN, and Gigablast.
  • The crawler activates forms, and digs deep to find even dynamic data
  • It automatically recognize classifieds listings – currently cars for sale, job postings, and personals profiles, and extract and normalize the surrounding metadata (make, model, price, mileage, salary, location, title, age, gender, etc.).

Currently, Vast have, according to Naval, some of the largest databases anywhere, of over 15 Million classified listings across these three categories, automatically extracted and structured with no human oversight, from nearly 50,000 web sites and blogs.

That is pretty amazing…Ebay watch out? BTW, anyone can steal the site…

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Isolatr – is a big laugh in the face of all the Web2.0 companies. It is consists of 2 pages, the front page and a great FAQ. I love this stuff + Go Flock Yourself. They show the real value of many of these companies and puts [...]]]>


Isolatr – is a big laugh in the face of all the Web2.0 companies. It is consists of 2 pages, the front page and a great FAQ. I love this stuff + Go Flock Yourself. They show the real value of many of these companies and puts them in their right place. Love the name too. I should add though, that there are a few gold corns out there – but you have to sort out the rubbish first. Via Ouriel.

 

]]> http://netjacobsson.com/2006/03/14/isolatr-the-cream-of-social-networking-sites/feed/ 0 China Internet & Techology Key Take Aways http://netjacobsson.com/2006/03/07/china-internet-techology-key-take-aways/ http://netjacobsson.com/2006/03/07/china-internet-techology-key-take-aways/#comments Tue, 07 Mar 2006 10:27:57 +0000 Net http://netjacobsson.com/?p=498 Piper Jaffray held their third Annual China Internet & Technology Conference in Beijing last week. From the discussions & presentations held at the conference, the following key take aways emerged:

1. The economy is less of a risk, compared with last year
2. Leaders are emerging within the sector
3. Companies [...]]]> Piper Jaffray held their third Annual China Internet & Technology Conference in Beijing last week. From the discussions & presentations held at the conference, the following key take aways emerged:

1. The economy is less of a risk, compared with last year
2. Leaders are emerging within the sector
3. Companies are more realistic about market opportunity and margin leverage
4. Regulation is helping moderate growth rate, preventing potential bubbles
5. New areas are emerging in blogs, social networking, etc.
6. Adoption of advertising and online medium by small businesses is increasing
7. Local companies enjoy home-grown advantage

Focus Media and Ctrip are emerging as leaders, Baidu and TOM Group as well. Baidu is dominating search and Google will have a difficult and uphill struggle in challenging Baidus domination. Online advertising is expecting to grow 35-40% during 2006 (an amazing oppertunity here). What I find particulariy interesting is the new areas that are emerging in blogs and social networking. According to Piper Jaffray, blogging is the big new trend catching on very rapidly. They also believe that it will continue to grow, and the existing players such as Bokee, Blog CN, Sina and surprise: MSN Spaces are likely to be market leaders. Other rapidly growing companies are: online match making, phone agencies and travel search engines.

Against this background I must say that Maxthon is very well positioned in China, we are already driving a huge percentage of Baidu’s search traffic, we are the second biggest browser in China and our user growth in China (as well as outside of) are just exploading.

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]]> http://netjacobsson.com/2006/03/07/china-internet-techology-key-take-aways/feed/ 1 Michael Arrington With The Maxthon U3 Key! http://netjacobsson.com/2006/03/02/michael-arrington-with-the-maxthon-u3-key/ http://netjacobsson.com/2006/03/02/michael-arrington-with-the-maxthon-u3-key/#comments Thu, 02 Mar 2006 09:03:47 +0000 Net http://netjacobsson.com/?p=500 Dinner in Tel Aviv with Techcrunch

Here’s a group picture from the Techcrunch dinner in Tel Aviv. From the right, Michel Arrington (look he’s got Maxthon on a U3 key around the neck!). I’m the happy guy between Michael and Ouriel.

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Dinner in Tel Aviv with Techcrunch

Here’s a group picture from the Techcrunch dinner in Tel Aviv. From the right, Michel Arrington (look he’s got Maxthon on a U3 key around the neck!). I’m the happy guy between Michael and Ouriel.

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]]> http://netjacobsson.com/2006/03/02/michael-arrington-with-the-maxthon-u3-key/feed/ 0 Brrreeeport – Meaningless Words Coming To A Search Engine Near You http://netjacobsson.com/2006/02/15/brrreeeport-meaningless-words-coming-to-a-search-engine-near-you/ http://netjacobsson.com/2006/02/15/brrreeeport-meaningless-words-coming-to-a-search-engine-near-you/#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:26:18 +0000 Net http://netjacobsson.com/?p=518 It seems like Scoble have nothing better to do over at Microsoft today than inventing a new word (brrreeeport), then tag it and see what happens. BTW, the brrreeeport sounds extremely familiar to a certain bodily sound that Adam Curry happens to let loose in the Daily Source Code on [...]]]> It seems like Scoble have nothing better to do over at Microsoft today than inventing a new word (brrreeeport), then tag it and see what happens. BTW, the brrreeeport sounds extremely familiar to a certain bodily sound that Adam Curry happens to let loose in the Daily Source Code on a regular basis like a 30 second spot…sponsored by (oh you know by whoom..). The worst thing is that even I find myself writing a post on it..Is this the sad true state of the blogosphere today, or is it just what makes people tick’?

Looking at the more serious side of it (if there is any..) when I was running a blog campaign for Samsung Mobile’s Anyfilms.net some time ago, I noticed that Google Blog Search by far out numbered Technorati and the others in tracking the posts. Technorati turned out to be really disappointing as a reliable tracking tool (which was a pity since I really like their service). The big surprise however, was MSN Search tracking far more blogs with the tag “anyfilms” than the others (after Google of course).

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