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14 Sep 09

Investors Warm to Web Calling - BusinessWeek

  • The demand doesn't end with Skype. In the past seven months, venture capitalists poured tens of millions of dollars into mobile Web-calling provider Fring, Internet-calling software maker Twilio, and service provider Ooma, which had multiple funding offers in June, when many startups couldn't get a dime.
17 Jul 09

FT.com | Tech Blog | App stores are not the future, says Google

  • Vic Gundotra, Google Engineering vice president and developer evangelist, (pictured centre) told the  Mobilebeat conference in  San Francisco on Thursday that the web had won and users of mobile phones would get their information and entertainment from browsers in future.


    He claimed that even Google was not rich enough to support all of the different mobile platforms from Apple’s AppStore to those of the BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Android and the many variations of the Nokia platform.

  • Mr Gundotra pointed out that the latest version of the Safari Webkit-based browser on the iPhone allowed positioning technology on the phone to be used - Google’s home page can now display where users are located.
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01 Jul 09

From Thinkers to Clickers: The World Wide Web and the Transformation of the Essence of Being Human

  • The simple printed book is much more conducive to promoting thinking than the sophisticated Web. If a book does not provide all the information that one needs, some of the information has to be deduced and some of it has to be imagined. When people do not get answers to their questions by reading one book, they have to read a second or third book to find the answers. The book is also a slow medium. By the time a person buys, borrows or finds another book that has the answer to a question, he or she also has had the time to think about it more thoroughly and perhaps even refine the question. The time spent in thought will in many instances enable a person to generate an answer to the question that aroused his or her curiosity in the first place.
    • But many people will just don't think the question again if they need too much effort to get the anwser. - on 2009-07-01
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  • Why should a person take the time to think when he or she can click his or her way to an instantaneous answer to a question that might otherwise have necessitated some thinking on the part of the person to get an answer.
    • At one hand, it's true that we spend less time in thinking and try to get the answer instanstly. At another hand, we can get more thinking food easily. - on 2009-07-01
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26 Oct 08

Web analytics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • Concerns about the accuracy of logfile analysis in the presence of caching, and the desire to be able to perform web analytics as an outsourced service, led to the second data collection method, page tagging or 'Web bugs'.


    In the mid 1990s, Web counters were commonly seen — these were images included in a web page that showed the number of times the image had been requested, which was an estimate of the number of visits to that page. In the late 1990s this concept evolved to include a small invisible image instead of a visible one, and, by using JavaScript, to pass along with the image request certain information about the page and the visitor. This information can then be processed remotely by a web analytics company, and extensive statistics generated.


    The web analytics service also manages the process of assigning a cookie to the user, which can uniquely identify them during their visit and in subsequent visits.

19 Oct 08

Reccomended Web Strategy Reading

  • I started my social media career at Hitachi Data Systems (I’ll actually be speaking to Hitachi in Tokyo this coming week) and eventually become the online community manager. One of the keys to being a successful community person is to be a resource (or lethal generosity) to the entire industry you want to serve –rather then just a vendor pitching jockey.


    In the spirit of sharing, over the past few weeks in client calls, I’ve referenced these posts several times, one of the challenges of my blog layout is that it’s difficult to find the most visited or commented posts, here’s some I think you’d enjoy.

06 Apr 08

A Smarter Web

  • The Semantic Web will also be a richer, more customizable Web. Imagine running your cursor over the name of the hotel and being informed that 15 percent of the people who've voted on its quality say it's excellent. If you happen to know that the hotel is a dump, you can instruct your browser to assign those people a trust level of zero. (The polling information would be saved on a third-party "annotation server" that your Web browser accessed automatically.) By assigning high levels of trust to people who match your tastes and interests, and "bozo-filtering" the people who don't, the Web will start looking more like your Web.
29 Feb 08

Beware of Freeconomics - ReadWriteWeb

  • The argument that it cost Google nothing to develop and offer GMail is wrong. Likely it costs millions of dollars each year.
    The fact of the matter is that GMail was offered for free mostly because Google could afford it. This is a standard monopolistic
    tactic used to enter a new market - drive the price down (in this case to $0) and kill off the competition. Yahoo! was actually first
    to market and had a perfectly good product with a fair model: they offered a basic product for free and a premium product with more storage for a price. But when Google made its move, Yahoo! could not compete.
  • Perhaps the biggest worry of free are startups. To begin with, how do you compete with free? Suppose someone has
    a great idea for improving web mail. Entering the market is really difficult. A lot of inertia is now behind Google and in the new world of freeconomics, you can no longer compete on price. Not that long ago the
    concept of better and cheaper allowed startups to make the bet. But now that cheaper has been replaced with free,
    that axis is shut out.
    • Entrepreneurs just try to invent new communication ways. - on 2008-02-29
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13 Jan 08

Semantic Web: What Is The Killer App? - ReadWriteWeb

  • The Semantic Web has been in the making for some time and people think it is nearing maturity.
    We have written about this trend extensively, with our two most notable posts being an analysis of the challenges of the classic bottom-up approach and the promise of the new top-down one. Regardless of how the Semantic Web will come about, for it to flourish
    it needs to hit the mainstream. There is no way that consumers will appreciate the elegance and mathematical soundness of RDF and OWL. People don't care about math, they care about utility and even more, about fun. What the Semantic Web needs, then, is a killer app.
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