Internet Economie
APIs : a strong barrier to entry
Despite most of people think, building APIs to access to your web-service, or more generaly, opening your application so that people can interract with it through other services is probably one of the key success factors. Twitter is the best example of this.
Google App Engine et la sedimentation
Il y a peu de chances que des visiteurs viennent des moteurs de recherche avec un titre pareil! Bref. La sédimentation, c’est pour moi le fait que, dans l’industrie technologique, l’innovation -et donc la création de valeur- semble résider dans la construction d’une couche d’abstraction supplémentaire au dessus de l’existant, pour se rapprocher du client. […]
Google’s click strategy
I read an interesting point on Pierre Chappaz’s blog this morning. He refers to a Comscore study that showing that the number of clicks on the Google Ads network had decreased. At first -as Pierre does-, we might think that Google’s revenues are about to decrease. That might be true on the short term, but […]
Google’s biggest asset
Google’s market capitalization is now well over $200Bn, and this will probably last. First, this is clearly the consequence of Google’s strategy to be actually internet’s infrastructure. Google and internet’s fates are more than ever related. Then, it’s also the valuation of Google’s biggest asset : it’s data!
Here comes winter
It’s been a week that the video “Here Comes another bubble” has been circulating through the web and blogs. Check the video :
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Amazon EC2 et S3
Amazon fournit de très nombreux outils pour webmasters. Parmi les plus “emblématiques” on trouve Simple Storage Service (S3) et Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2). Dans les deux cas, l’accent est mis sur la flexibilité et la qualité de l’infrastructure : vous etes chez Amazon!
Teen Blog platforms: mature?
It’s only Tuesday and yet, 2 very big blogging platform have been put for sale : LiveJournal which has actually already been sold to SUP and Skyblog, the biggest European blogging platform/network. Correct me if I am wrong but these platforms are a lot comparable and I am sure that we could get some lessons […]
Découverte de la Silicon Valley
Cette semaine, je participe à un voyage d’étude dans la Silicon Valley, organisée par Jeremy, qui a réussi à déplacer une vingtaine de français sur la “West Coast”. A l’image, d’Olivier, le GO des panthères -dont je suis un trop peu fidèle membre, pour des raisons d’isolement géographique!-, j’en profite pour présenter la troupe, avec blog et photos, […]
Competitive Environment
Launching a new start-up requires a lot of Strategy thinking. One of the key point is the study of the competitive landscape. Of course, you should look at any competitor/substitute, at their products, their marketing… but you should also give a broad look to the landscape : what will your start-up get into? Of course, […]
Profile based Ads
I had a very interesting conversation last week, with one of my friends, here, in San Francisco. We were actually discussing the facts that more and more ad-based webservices were trying to get more and more information on their users to provide them with better targetted ads. As a user, I really don’t want any […]
