Versatile Amphibian

I’m of the belief that participants in the TMT industry need to read widely in order to understand the present and future dynamics of the market. To that end, this post is a collection of the articles that have caught my eye. This week: clown predicts Zuck move for Nokia, HD goes super, Dragon splashes down and Metro goes public Digital media Samsung have finally launched their own media ecosystem to compete with Play, Market and, of course, iTunes. Coming soon to a fridge near you. http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/45824/samsung-music-hub-music-streaming-locker-service A slightly misleading, but still interesting comparison of the audience for British newspapers. Misleading because the engagement and characteristics of the online reader and the content they consume are very different from print. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2011/may/09/digital-media-abcs It would be remiss of me not to mention Facebook’s share price. It hasn’t been a good week and this valuation ...

So things aren't going very well for Facebook. As we all know, not only did the shares fail to pop, they then plummeted and more trouble seems afoot, since even the underwriting banks have slashed their revenue estimates for Facebook . Although Zuck has wedded bliss (and a couple of billion bucks) to fall back on, I suspect he's feeling a bit blue at the moment. So I wondered, what would I do, if I were Zuck? Besides buying a yacht and an island... 1. Do something about mobile Mobile experience and Facebook's inability to monetise it is destroying them. All this talk of emerging market consumers is meaningless if they can't be made to pay and in developed markets the iPhone/ iPad consumer is passing Facebook by. The trouble is the Facebook isn't a platform or an ecosystem. Even Amazon - the smallest of the tech superpowers - has it's own platform (Kindle) and ecosystem (Prime). That allows it to create value through retail, lock-in through closed ecosy...