Author: fioritto

Search Engines and Yellow Pages

  David Galbraith writes about the opportunity: The market for local services has traditionally been owned by the phone companies who used phone numbers as the key for Yellow Pages listings, however, Yellow Pages publishers have been lazy and arrogant and are just realizing that they could be crushed by the likes of Google, since the majority of revenues will…

Market Failure In The Media Sector

  : Eli Noam, professor of economics and finance at Columbia University, writing in FT, looks at the structural and endemic problems in the digital content market: “The basic structural reason for this problem is that information products are characterised by high fixed costs and low marginal costs. Second, more information products are continuously being offered to users. And information…

Feedster Feedpapers

  John Battelle points out an interesting new development in the blogosphere: Feedster Feedpapers. Here’s Feedster’s explanation: When you think about what Feedster really does, it lets you listen to the web. A Feedpaper is a sophisticated daily newspaper, a “Feedpaper”,… [JD’s New Media Musings]

Two Boyds on YASNSes (Seb Paquet)

  First up is the crib of danah boyd’s “Revenge of the User” presentation at the O’Reilly emerging technology conference, which offers a quick rundown of relevant sociological research then dives into an excellent illustrated tour of the issues and traps… Related… [Many-to-Many]