Posted in Uncategorized, tagged widget on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Below is a new ad that’s been built off Last.FM’’s API. A great idea and example of a targeted, relevant site widget.
Entering your user name, generates this:
Clicking through takes you to this – a cool data visualization of your musical taste over time:
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Posted in Uncategorized on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Great article by RWW on what the big players should be doing in 2009.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/2009_tips_for_big_web_companies.php
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Mobile tagging company ShotCode have been working since 2003 to make the world clickable. It’s a very simple premise… you see a product you like with a ShotCode barcode, scan the barcode with your mobile camera and visit the product’s mobile site immediately.
This is a perfect example of Kevin Kelly’s hypothesis that the next stage [...]
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Posted in Trends, tagged brand, service, utilitarian on November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
…it’s a funny business model.
But if marketing departments adopt it, an extremely powerful communication tool.
Great service no cost
Build a great product/service, attract vast numbers of people, attract some major investors and figure out how you’ll make money sometime down the track. Google had no revenue model for a few years, it’s taken two years to [...]
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Posted in Trends, tagged open source, platform on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last week’s Web 2.0 Summit saw IBM discuss what they claim as the next evolution of the web browser which is set to make the Microsoft, Adobe and Google’s take notice thanks to the new level of functionality in the Blue Spruce platform.
So what does it look like?
It’s basically made up of two components: the client toolkit and co-web [...]
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Posted in Trends, tagged semantic, web 3.0 on November 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The semantic, or learning web is the next stage in web development. The stages of the web have been identified as:
- READ Web 1.0
- WRITE Web 2.0
- LEARN Web 3.0
Semantic Search
Already there have been some search engines which have begun to show search results in a semantic manner:
www.kartoo.com
www.hakia.com/
A new service by Dapper gives site owners the ability [...]
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A nice look at where people look during a Google search with some eye-tracking software. Obviously everyone’s behaviour is different but this footage backs up the evidence that if you’re not at the top of the organic list you’re nowhere.
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With cool tech stuff of course!
Straight from the movies – Star Wars holograms and Bourne Identity multi touch-screens… the US TV stations are stopping at no expense to outdo each other.
TV stations are pulling out the tech show of strength this US election. While battling for eyeballs ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox have released a host of [...]
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There is a growing trend of business models and projects popping up over night and are instantly becoming successful. Think Google, Facebook and wait for iPhone apps. This rapid expansion and evolution has been able to happen to several business models over the last ten years where, in the past, the most rapidly growing businesses [...]
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Posted in Trends, tagged election, social media on November 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Internet Usage in United States
United States Population: 303,824,646
Internet Usage: 220,141,969
Penetration rate: 72.5%
Growth from 2000-2008: 130.9%
Stats from Internet WorldStats (Census, Nielson)
Facebook
Obama: 2,379,102 supporters
McCain: 620,359 supporters
Obama has 380% more supporters than McCain
MySpace
Obama: Friends: 833,161
McCain: Friends: 217,811
Obama has 380% more supporters than McCain
YouTube
Obama: 1792 videos uploaded since Nov 2006, Subscribers: 114,559 (uploads about 4 a day), Channel Views: 18,413,110
McCain: [...]
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