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Man of the Year: You (and youtube)

>Back in 2002-3, Scott Allen and I started work on a book about online networks and social software, what today people call Web 2.0. It’s a great sign of the now-mainstream acceptance of these technologies that Time magazine’s “Man of the Year” is “You”—and discusses all of the technologies we cover in our book and...

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Social Media

Wall Street Journal Today: Big Investors Turn to Network of Informants

Nitron Advisors is featured on the front page of today’s Wall Street Journal: Big Investors Turn to Network of Informants “For professional investors, something akin to what Match.com has done for the nation’s singles…hooking up middle managers from hundreds of companies with professional investors desperate for an investing edge.” More (requires subscription or two-week trial)...

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Evalueserve Circle of Experts, Expert Networks, Media Coverage, Research

Online Social Networks in Financial Times

From Scott Allen: There’s a great write-up of danah boyd in Financial Times, which labels her the high priestess of internet friendship. I thought they did a great job, with the exception of not respecting her preference of not capitalizing her name. In addition to profiling danah, the article also chronicles the development of Friendster...

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Social Media

Dot-Com Bubble, Part II? Why It is So Hard to Value Social Networking Sites

Less than three years after emerging from nowhere, the hot social networking website MySpace is on pace to be worth a whopping $15 billion in just three more years. Or is it? And is the much smaller Facebook really worth the $900 million or more Yahoo is reported to have offered for it? The problem,...

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Financial Analysis, Social Media

Slides from Vistage CEO Conference last week

I enjoyed speaking at lunch at two Vistage conferences this past week, in New York and Chicago. (As background, Vistage is the world’s largest CEO membership organization based on revenue.) My two presentations were: + Chicago Conference: How to Accelerate Your Company with Web 2.0 Technologies New York Conference: Seven Free, Easy Steps to Accelerate...

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Chicago, New York, Social Media

Multisided Markets–HBS Professor Andrei Hagiu

HBS Professor Andrei Hagiu is an expert on multi-sided markets, and recently interviewed me on that topic: Market Platform Dynamics–Catalyst Conversation: Conversation with David Teten. His site requires that you submit an email address to read the article (but I should note that he doesn’t actually test if the email address is functional.)...

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