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Metcalfe’s law states the value of the network increases exponentially with each additional node that is added. This theory was originally developed for the telecom networks to show how a telephony network’s value increases the more phones that are added. The same is true of social networks, look at myspace, its intrinsic value at [...]

Note- this is a purely theoretical article, mainly my thoughts on how this would be done efficiently. Also I understand this could be controversial, but if no one puts this out there how can we retain the integrity of the social news spectrum?
Digg is in an enviable position right now, its got so much traffic [...]

I’ve been thinking about the posts that Markus from Plentyoffish posts on his blog, where he claims the online dating companies are afraid of being left behind by the social networks, and free dating sites. But my question is, where are the social networking sites that get the mix right? If myspace is all about [...]

The consumer generated media session was pretty interesting today. The speaker list included:

Robert Levitan, CEO, Pando
Itzak Cohen, CEO, ClipSync
Chris O’Brien, CEO and co-founder, Motionbox
Ted Murphy, CEO, PayPerPost
Mark Brenner, CEO, vidavee

Pando offers a hybrid p2p distribution system, could be interesting, don’t know too much about it. They are offering licensing and distribution using a torrent [...]

short post today, bereft of proper grammar too. social networking is the hotness, small groups of likeminded people (refresh, yopos, etc.) getting together via the web and building exciting stuff. this is what the world was waiting for to tear down barriers such as geography in team building.

The refresh movement is without a doubt one of the most unifying things going on now in the web. It might not be making the most waves in the public, but in the web design and development community it is definitely taking hold.The Refresh movement is providing a venue for small businesses, entrepreneurs, and other [...]

This is more of a addendum to the previous post, rather than a self-standing post. So if you didn’t read the earlier treatise on podcast advertising figures, then check that entry first.While i thought i had carefully crafted my logical fiscal analysis of the podcasting issue earlier, i realized one thing I had missed [...]

So its been quite a while since i talked about podcast advertising here (mainly because I’ve been so busy, and also nothing new was being talked about in this market).Well today we’re going to look at how the numbers break down in podcast advertising (now remember, this is based on pre-launch figures). The basic premise [...]

Just this week Facebook raised another $25 million in venture funding from Greylock, bringing their pre-money valuation to close to $525 million.  Now this indicates one of two things, either they are burning cash like CRAZY and can’t generate enough to support their big staff, OR they are looking to finance some new expansions or [...]

Social networking (you know myspace, facebook, etc.) has become one of the most popular sectors on the web lately. With traffic growing at such a fast rate, it seems like the early entrants were plagued with the lack of any previous examples to learn from. It was their missteps that created the current market for [...]