You know how almost everyone is good for a at least a few great ideas in their time? Well, what’s the cloud going to do to that?
Now, people can share everything all the time. And it’s all on record.
So it becomes really hard to say anything that hasn’t been said before — never mind trying [...]
It looks like Microsoft’s (MSFT) re-entry into search with the launch Bing.com might have less to do with taking on Google (GOOG) as a search engine, and more to do with entering more uncharted waters: cloudvertisingg. Of course, this would still be putting them in direct competition with GOOG, but in more of a proactive [...]
The only real reason that Yahoo! remains to be relevant is Flickr. Now, by relevant, I don’t mean profitable, long-term viable, or responsible for x-thousands of jobs. I mean only that “if it was gone, people would miss it.”
Flickr is the only real part of the Yahoo! portfolio that really gets it. And it wasn’t [...]
Considering how the New York Times is coping with the the plight of the publishing industry and news media better than most, it’s not surprising to see that they might be pursuing a more symbiotic editorial model. Granted, when it comes to weathering the storm, the NYT is a lot larger in both scope and [...]
ymbiotic editorial is kind of like when you treat your content like a public park rather than a walled garden. And there are three parts to pursuing the model: (1) having two poducts; (2) having two target markets — one readers, the other advertisers; and (3) understanding that readers are also both consumers and users.
First, [...]
The mobile web is going to look nothing like the web that we use today. I mean, sure, there’ll still be “mobile sites” for users who are searching unfamiliar information, but the bulk of the mobile web will be community based.
Social media changed the web by letting users go beyond consuming content. It let them [...]
I caught up with Austin Hill, one of the founders of Akoha, at the last Podcamp Montreal. We sat down to chat, and Austin told me how Akoha is a web-based game with reality-based play (very cool), and how he hopes it will make the world a better place by changing the way people think [...]
