Posts Tagged ‘ web2.0 ’

This is completely, desperately, and viciously true. I’ve experienced it myself. A few months ago the CIO was asked by the chief marketing officer to provide a way for marketing employees around the world to share and build documents together, and perform other collaborative tasks. The CIO discussed the project with his application development...
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I can’t believe how shockingly bad some major companies are when it comes to user interface design. These days there are just so many resources out there, so many knowledgeable people, and testing is so easy to do … there’s just no excuse for really horrible, hostile user interfaces. Exhibit #1 Notice the empty...
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Interesting speech by social game maker Zynga’s CEO Mark Pincus today at Inside Social Apps. An excerpt: In his speech, Pincus envisioned a world that runs on an app economy, where it’s easy to access and use sophisticated software on any device or platform via Web services. The current platform is booming and has...
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From TechCrunch: Whoever knows what your interests are right now and can package them up for advertisers has the chance to make a lot of money. Of course, Google does this right now every time you declare your interests in a search box and it offers up matching ads on the side of results....
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Some really good things we’ve learned: 1. Users are open to ads as long as they’re relevant to their realtime experience. 2. Advertisers really want to create ads that are relevant to the realtime experience. 3. Realtime applications are starting to make serious money through advertising! Some really hard challenges all of us face:...
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Everyone who builds or designs for the web should read Fred Wilson’s 10 Golden Principles of Successful Web Apps. Fred is a venture capitalist at Union Square Ventures in New York, and writes the not-very-creatively-named A VC blog. Check the full article for all the details … but here are the main points: Speed...
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Thanks, Phil, for posting this video: JESS3 / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo. Fairly wow indeed. I’m very glad not to be a server jockey for Facebook.
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Google’s blog just announced that they are adding a new “star” feature to web search. Essentially, when you see results you like, you star them, and they’ll appear higher in results next time you perform a similar search. From the Google blog post announcing the new feature: With stars, you can simply click the...
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We are no longer just consumers of content, we have become curators of it too. If someone approached me even five years ago and explained that one day in the near future I would be filtering, collecting and sharing content for thousands of perfect strangers to read — and doing it for free —...
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Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc., maker of the iPod player and iTunes music software, is in talks to acquire online music service Lala, according to two people familiar with the matter. The terms of the deal weren’t known. The people declined to be identified because talks are still in progress. Investors in Palo...
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Hmmm … some bugs to work out yet? That’s why they call it beta, I guess.
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From the ReadWriteWeb story: # Five years from now the internet will be dominated by Chinese-language content. # Today’s teenagers are the model of how the web will work in five years – they jump from app to app to app seamlessly. # Five years is a factor of ten in Moore’s Law, meaning...
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Some will hate it and some will love it. But many will talk about it: And yes, booneoakley.com translates to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elo7WeIydh8. Bold – very bold. (Saw it here.)
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Classify this as a happy accident: I just happened to accidentally align a Mac OS X finder window with the TwitterMass website … which just happens to have a very similar color palette. After a couple of seconds I did a double take and realized what was happening. Funny!
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This is Tara Hunt‘s presentation at Web2.0 on the same topic as her recent book: The Whuffie Factor. Just start – you’ll enjoy it:
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