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11 Mar 07

SXSW: Web App Autopsy

  • It was noted that RegOnline has the highest organic result
    for the search term 'Online Registration' in Google - so this may have something to do
    with the poor conversion rate to free accounts. As you'll see in the slides (you have
    downloaded them right?!), RegOnline also has the highest revenue per customer by
    an order of magnitude.
  • For example,
    it is interesting that Wufoo and Feedburner have a lower conversion rate to the free
    services than BlinkSale - even though BlinkSale asks more questions during the
    registration process.

Tip: Trust is hard to gain, easy to lose. » Blake Ross on Firefox

  • Google’s new age “bundling” is less threatening than Microsoft’s because changing operating systems is hard, while changing search engines is easy
  • either the company does not believe in its own search technology, or it does not believe its products are good enough to rise to the top organically. I’d guess the latter.
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04 Jan 07

Is Google Headed for $630?

  • search becoming a more important component of Web surfing
  • Google has been spending substantial amounts of its huge cash horde recently on building up areas such as its server capacity and data farms.
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13 Dec 06

Wikia Launches OpenServing Blog Platform - Mashable!

  • OpenServing is a community content platform that will provide free storage, bandwidth, software and computing power.
09 Dec 06

YouTube allows users to record directly to site

  • many people I know
    who upload (or want to upload) videos to YouTube at least consider the recording
    and encoding process to require the most effort and be the most time-consuming
    steps.
  • This new feature eliminates steps in the process
    of producing video content, making it easier than ever to publish videos to
    the web.
02 Dec 06

There's Not Enough "Me" In MySpace

  • It's the dawning of online social networking's cable-television era. Starting in the late 1970s
  • But people are savvy, and they're going to stick to those that are doing it well.
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27 Nov 06

Personal recommendation software爌redicts consumer choice/The race to create a 'smart' Google - November 27, 2006

  • Steve Johnson, CEO of Boston-based recommender system ChoiceStream, which provides the collaborative filtering engine behind AOL.com, Blockbuster.com, iTunes and Directv.com
  • Most consumers seem perfectly willing to trade preference data for insight. "What's fueling this is the desire for self-expression,
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25 Nov 06

Last.fm Relaunches with New Features » Techcrunch

  • At relaunch, the company says it has 15 million unique active users per month from 200 countries, listening to 65 million songs from 7 million artists. The site includes 150,000 wikis about artists and 350,000 tags.
22 Nov 06

Microsoft vs Google Heats Up

  • if Schmidt has his timing right - will 2007 be the 'tipping point'? I
    suspect it will be
  • And whether
    or not you believe a GoogleOS is on the way, it's almost certain that Google will put the
    pressure on with office software delivered over the Web.
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09 Nov 06

Amazon Rolls Out its Visionary WebOS Strategy

  • Amazon hides complexity behind simple, minimalist APIs and offers their
    services for a very reasonable cost. The Amazon team takes the concepts of search,
    storage, lookup and management of data - and turns them into pay-per-fetch and
    pay-per-space web services. 
  • In short, Jeff
    Bezos'     big bet is a bet on the software infrastructure of the Web.
08 Nov 06

Jeff Bezos

  • Every year in his annual letter to shareholders he resurrects his 1997 letter, which reads in part: "We will make bold rather than timid investment decisions where we see a sufficient probability of gaining market leadership advantages."


    Today, it's just the same. "We are willing to go down a bunch of dark passageways," he says, "and occasionally we find something that really works."
  • IBM (IBM
    )is much better known as a provider not only of technology services but also of expertise in automating a wider range of business processes, from inventory management to sales tracking.
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Online Extra: Amazon Wants to Run Your Business


  • If you're thinking about community-generated content, it's something we've always done. Listmania [customer lists of related products they like], customer reviews, wish lists. [We] may be inspired by these techniques, but maybe social networking is always a modest piece of what we do.



    Everyone wanted to be a B-to-C company for a while, then everyone wanted to be a B-to-B company, and then everyone wanted to be a P-to-P company. You know, those things come and go. I guarantee that five years from now, no one will want to be a social-networking company.
  • The phrase that people are starting to use is "software as a service." Think of Mechanical Turk as "humans as a service."
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04 Nov 06

A Challenge to Library Directors - 11/1/2006 - School Library Journal

  • It’s OST. It stands for out-of-school time, and it refers to the meaningful programs and services that are provided to children and teens after school, on weekends, and over the summer.
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