Opinionated

I am re-posting this from the edgeio blog. Mainly because I think it has current relevance and will in future have historical value.
I’m not certain the edgeio blog will continue to exist, so this is the new home for the post. Since it was originally written we have seen the rise of Adbrite, Glam, Sugar [...]

Update 2:Rafat has a comment to this post pointing out that by just looking at paidcontent.org I am doing the valuation of ContentNext a disservice. Of course he is quite right. ContentNext has other sites and also events. It is also true to say - although Rafat doesn’t - that valuation has many variables, including [...]

As the title says I have been tagged by Dave Winer.
The rules say I now have to tell you 5 things you didn’t know about me and then tag five others.
So, here goes:
1. I am currently in St James, Cape Town, S Africa. It is a small area between Muizenberg and Fish Hoek (see map).
2. [...]

In response to the current discussion on Techmeme and TailRank hipmojo writes that the Pareto principle is in play on the internet and that no matter how much we want it to be otherwise 80% of online advertising will go to 20% of the web sites.
When the dust settles, the top 20% of websites will [...]

Last week Fred Wilson did a post on a phenomena he called de-portalization. I think he is right on the money.
I just posted a piece on the edgeio blog that picks up on that theme and discusses the consequences of the trend.
The top 10 consequences are:
1. The revenue growth that has characterized the Internet since [...]