Category — Opinion

ReadWriteWeb has a post on mobile social networking and some of the issues facing the companies trying to service that particular area. The post in itself is interesting, but the most interesting part is the bigger picture it relates to: The relevancy of services.

Given the almost no cost to develop a web application today combined with (until now at least) more or less easy access to money a lot of different web applications have seen the light and day. My claim is that 98 % of them are of little or no use at all and will die, when the last founder creditcard is maxed out. [Read more →]

I have written a new blogpost on Mediawatch. This time it’s about content companies operating in the niches while complaining that government subsidized media is killing their business by also entering these very same niches.

I find the whole argument more or less pointless. Because this is not a question about government backed media like the BBC competing with private niche oriented media. This is really about niche media not really cutting it in order to make a profit. In the end its about strategy, business development and product development. [Read more →]

In recent years it has been popular to claim that there is a fundamental difference between online consumer applications and applications deployed in the enterprise. The former was all fun and games, the latter a real serious deal.

Entreprise may indeed be serious and for very good reasons. But the consumer mentality is entering the enterprise in a big way. And this is going to force enterprises to open up their processes. [Read more →]

Chris Brogan asks what magazines with a huge print following should do in order to get the best out of the web and engage their huge reader communities there.

My answer to this would be: Let the magazines partner with someone who actually knows what it means to engage people online within their specific niche. In many ways this would bridge the gap and make it possible to get the best things from both the offline and the online world. So what’s standing in its way? Egos are. [Read more →]

Facebook apps. Either you love ‘em or you hate ‘em. I do the latter. There are three reasons for my hate.

First, they feel like spam. I nearly vommit everytime I get an invitation for some silly app or every time I cannot do anything without installing yet another app. It’s app hell. [Read more →]

There’s a lot of discussion around how to bridge the gulf between media and people as such - a gulf that in my mind is one of the reasons why many media companies are struggling to remain relevant for people and thus struggling to get them to subscribe to fx a newspaper.

One of the things always mentioned is a new focus on user involvement and interactivity and various ways of accomplishing that. However I have found it hard to frame all that - until now. [Read more →]