Friday 9th of September is the day of “Our Social World”, a one-day conference in Cambridge. It describes itself as: Our Social World is for…
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I got into trouble today. No, I wasn’t caught uploading porn to the live site. No, I wasn’t caught watching the cricket when I should…
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Comments closedFor many different reasons, I’ve been toying with moving my mail needs over to GMail. I’m lucky that I have my own mail server on…
4 CommentsI’ve been investigating investment options recently – currently any money I don’t spend at the end of the month simply collects in my saving account.…
2 CommentsTo celebrate their 10th birthday, those crazy Norwegians are giving away free licences for their Opera browser. A licensed copy gives you advertising-free browsing, more…
2 CommentsFollowing on from may last post, I strongly believe that the proportion of podcasters using managed services will be far greater than the proportion of…
3 CommentsA couple of my friends are in the process of setting up podcast start-ups. In talking to them about their plans, it’s clear to me that there’s a definite set of paradigms between blogging and podcasting.
Moreover, careful analysis of the successes and failures of the early blogging phenomenon can yield valuable insight, I feel, into the way podcasting start-ups should align themselves in the market.
Some might argue that their chances of success have been reduced considerably because they’ve lost first-mover advantage – but you’ve only got to look at the wane of first-movers Technorati and Skype* recently to see that there’s opportunity for younger start-ups to get a piece of the action.
So comparisons between blogging opportunities and future podcasting opportunities… I’m not saying podcasting is exactly the same as blogging, but certainly the business models and opportunities look similar, and as such much can be learned from where the likes of Blogger, SixApart/Typepad, Technorati and the like went wrong and right.
For me, there are three core business opportunities that are common to both blogging and podcasting:
- Production and delivery
- Search and discovery
- End-user consumption
Those of you who read/subscribe to a lot of blogs will no doubt have seen a number of posts about the Feedster Top500. The Top500…
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