There has been a lot of talk lately that the VC model is broken – here is a small selection of what has been being said recently on the topic: Forbes: Venture Capital’s Coming Collapse EarlyStageVC: Traditional Venture Capital Sure Seems Broken – It’s About Time VentureBeat: The VC model is broken Fred Wilson: Is […]
We continue our Influence research series, paving the way for in-depth insights and breaking new ground on the topic at Future of Influence Summit 2009 in San Francisco and Sydney. Duncan Watts is one of a handful of scientists instrumental in developing the study of networks as a key scientific discipline. He tells his story […]
While online technologies have transformed the media along many dimensions, one of the most important ways of understanding this is in how the news cycle has changed. In the old days news was broken on real-time channels such as radio and TV, reinforced and pushed out to a broader audience through newspapers, discussed again in […]
Twitter has just announced the first of a series of changes to how retweeting is incorporated into the Twitter platform, called Project Retweet. This is significant in how influencers make content popular, one of the key themes of the upcoming Future of Influence Summit. Retweeting (forwarding someone else’s tweet to all of your followers) has […]
Awesome! Tara Hunt, renowned author of The Whuffie Factor, will be doing the opening keynote at Future of Influence Summit in San Francisco. Below is the video where I first saw Tara in action, speaking at the Web 2.0 Conference in April 2009 about The Whuffie Factor: The 5 Keys for Maxing Social Capital and […]
How many Twitter followers do you have? One of the reasons Twitter is important is that it is introducing the concept of assessing people’s degree of influence. A person’s number of Twitter followers is increasingly being taken as a proxy for their influence. If the only thing you know about someone is that they have […]
At Future of Influence Summit at the end of this month many of the most prominent people in the influence space will get their heads around where the space is going. Given what I’ve been seeing and hearing over just the last few months, it is clear that an important part of this is the […]
One of the key themes at Future of Influence Summit 2009 on August 31 / September 1 will be the emergence of the ‘reputation economy’, and how value is being created in that space. Howard Rheingold, who has been deeply involved in this space since the 1980s, and has demonstrated his prescience by writing – […]
In the lead-up to Future of Influence Summit 2009, we will be pointing to some of the more interesting research into the influence space – there will be a wealth of insights coming up so keep posted even if you can’t make it to the event. Let’s start with one which is a little outside […]
Some more interesting insights from the UK OFCOM report (in addition to the shift in social networking activity from youths to adults I wrote about earlier today). There has been a 25% slide in newspaper revenue over the four years to 2008 (with the biggest drop in 2008, and likely a larger one coming in […]
