Category: Startups

• Lessons learnt from Marc Andreesen: making your own cake and eating it

  It’s always interesting to read Marc Andreesen’s thoughts on things. As a co-founder of browser firm Netscape and investor in Internet success stories like Zynga, Twitter, LinkedIn and Groupon I find that Andreesen tends to have a good overall perspective on things, being familiar with the world of startups as well as with that of established…

  marcabraham

  November 10, 2011

  Online Trends, Product Management, Startups, Technology

  Online, strategy

• Do you have Klout?

  What is the appeal of Klout, a service which provides social media analytics that measures a user’s influence across their social network? The Klout Score uses data from a user’s social networks like Twitter and Facebook in order to measure: True Reach – This measures the number of people you influence. It concentrates on the people who…

  marcabraham

  October 13, 2011

  Social Media, Startups

  Facebook, monitoring, socialmedia, Twitter

• Facebook’s new music platform – what will happen tomorrow?

  Interesting times for online music. A few months ago I wrote about the likes of Rdio and 7digital, where I work, stepping in to offer serious competition to iTunes. A few months later, in July, Spotify launched in the US and the picture of online music looked complete. It now turns out that this observation was way…

  marcabraham

  September 21, 2011

  Digital Content, Digital Strategy, Music, Social Media, Startups

  Facebook, Music, socialmedia, Spotify

• Square is making mobile payments even easier

  Square is one of those new inventions that I look at and think: “that’s a cool looking new feature!”. More importantly, Square looks like it will take mobile payments to the next level. A few months ago I learned about wallet-less payments with the likes of Google and Orange enabling users to pay using their mobiles…

  marcabraham

  July 21, 2011

  Mobile, Startups, Technology, User Experience

  Google, MMN, mobile

• You don’t have to go out to enjoy a social DJ

  A few weeks ago I learned about Turntable.fm a great new service which combines social media principles with music. The idea behind this new site is simple: ‘social listening’, with users having shared experiences around music. Turntable.fm has only been around for a month or so but has already picked up over 140,000 users which is…

  marcabraham

  July 17, 2011

  Music, Social Media, Startups

  Mixcloud, Music, Rdio, Shazam, socialmedia