Thursday, December 10, 2009

2010 Trends: Pete Cashmore's Take

Ted Murphy & Pete CashmoreImage by tedmurphy via Flickr
"....the continued spread of social media, location sharing, and Internet TV...."

Social media has not seen its full manifestations. So yeah 2010 might be bigger for social media than 2009 has been. But it was 2009 when Twitter really took off as a buzz brand. Facebook keeps growing by leaps and bounds. Facebook has figured out something basic that Twitter has not, not yet. The everyperson gets Facebook. That everyperson does not get Twitter yet. It has been more of a tech elite application. Granted that covers most of those who shape thoughts, but I would not bet my business model just on that.

FourSquare is the next Twitter, if you believe the buzz. Location sharing is the web going a little bit 3D. That is very much up my alley. I have kept arguing Web 3.0 is not the semantic web, it is the 3D web.

Our broadband pipes are going to get bigger. We will consume more video format content online. Video in real time is TV, right?

Pete Cashmore's CNN Article: 10 Web Trends To Watch In 2010

2010 is looking really good for one giant: Google. Wave and Android will really take off. But this Cashmore article will be an interesting read a year from now. Future can not be predicted. That is inherent. Could we have foreseen Fall 2009 in Fall 2008? I doubt it.

"....location is not about any singular service; rather, it's a new layer of the Web...."

This comment is very insightful.

Matt Galligan, Pete Cashmore, Brian DeWittImage by *Samantha Murphy* via Flickr

"How many desktop applications do we really need"

Just one, the browser.

".....a converse trend in which task-specific devices gain popularity......"

It is because our tech realities are an ecosystem. There is room for the all-in-one and the one-in-one. And more.

Farmville has a message. It is a major business trend.

Privacy as a concept will get redefined. It will get new life.



What is most interesting to me about this article by Pete Cashmore is the interaction between old media - CNN - and new media - Mashable. I think CNN is more a brand name than an old media entity. They have the option to incorporate new media and social media into that brand. And they are doing it. Old brand names need not die, but they do need to face the new reality.


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Wednesday, December 09, 2009

Discovering Andrew Wong

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Droid Does



Mashable story: TIME Names Gadget of the Year: Droid

Verizon Droid competes with the iPhone and Amazon's Kindle faces competition in the Barnes Noble product. For now the newcomers seem to have the buzz. Mashable thinks iPhone is the superior phone. TechCrunch thinks it is Droid. My bias is for Droid. I have a feeling the iPhone is the Mac and the Droid is the PC, poised for a wider adoption. We will see. 

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Monday, December 07, 2009

Google Wave For The Masses

Image representing Google Wave as depicted in ...Image via CrunchBase
Mashable just broke story saying Google Wave has now a million members and many more invites are being sent out. I say about time. Google Wave is not a whole lot of fun if all or most of your friends are not on it.

So far I have used it with very few people, very few times, and all I have done is have instant messenger like short conversations. So far I have not used the multimedia features or the document collaboration features. Or how about publishing a wave as a blog post? I think I would like that greatly.

Google Wave needs to be scaled and fast. Go for the masses. It is gift giving time.

 I Now Have Google Wave
Anil Dash On Google Wave
Bill Gates, Chrome OS, Natal, Wave
Blog Carnival: Google Wave
Google Wave API Google Group: Got To Undo The Ban On Me
Google Wave Protest
Google Wave API Google Group: Stalinist Mindset
The Google Wave Developer Community Will Be Vibrant
Five Blind Men And Google Wave
A Little Trouble At The Google Wave API Google Group
Lessons From The Open Source Community For The Wave Community
Google Wave Developer Community: Asking For A Culture?
Google Wave: Organizations Will Go Topsy Turvy
Google Wave: Enormous Buzz
Possible Google Wave Applications And Innovations
Google Wave Architecture: Designed For Mass, Massive, Global Innovation
The Google Wave Architecture
Google Wave Ripples
Is Google Wave Social Enough To Challenge Facebook, Twitter?
Of Waves And Tsunamis
Google WaveImage via Wikipedia
Google Wave: Wave Of The Future?
Google Wave: If Email Were Invented Today

Google Wave Developer Blog

Google Wave API Articles: Extensions Debugging & Robot-to-Gadget Communication
You got questions? We've got answers!
Upcoming US Events with Google Wave Presentations
WaveSandbox.com: Federate This
Happy Hallo-Wave-een!
Google Wave is headed to Europe: Join us!
Google Wave at GTUG London: Monday, October 26
Google Wave Samples Gallery: Best Practices & New Features
What happened in the Wave sandbox
Google Wave in Internet Explorer
Google Wave Extension Updates
Google Wave API Hackathon & Federation Day: Videos Available Now!
Tweety Sample Improved with OAuth Support
Prototyping a Drupal Module for Google Wave
Google Wave Community Events
Google Wave Federation Protocol and Open Source Updates
Google Wave: Updates from today's hackathon
Google Wave Sandbox Update
Google Wave API Presentations: Now Online
Google Wave Hackathon and Federation Day: July 20, 21 in Mountain View
Share Your Work in the Wave Samples Gallery
TwilioBot: Bringing Phone Conversations into Waves
1 Wave Sandbox, 5 Hours, 17 Awesome Demos
The Making of the Sudoku Gadget
Google Wave API Office Hours
Google Wave team heads to Google Developer Days in Asia
Introducing the Google Wave APIs: what can you build?

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Finally Real Time Search From Google



Mashable Story: Real Time Search From Google
Read Write Web 
Tweets And Facebook Updates: The Mumbojumbo
Search: Pregnant Territory
Twitter Should Hand Over Search To Google
Search: The Human Vs. The Machine
Dynamic PageRank And Real Time Search
Microblogging Search: What Took Google So Long?
Real Time Search: Twitter Is Not Doing It
Google Analytics: SML Pro Blog Traffic Sources...

Search Come Full Circle: That Human Element

This is a moment I have been waiting for for a few months now. All tweets reside on Twitter's servers, and they still can not fathom all tweets. All Facebook updates reside on Facebook servers and Facebook still is not serving a search on Facebook updates, I thought. Let the king into the ring. Let Google do search.

Finally Google is doing it.

But this is only the first step. I don't want to be able to search the here and now. Actually the archives of tweets and Facebook updates are of greater interest to me. Help me see all sorts of patterns. Dig into the archives and display in many different ways.




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Saturday, December 05, 2009

The Pro-Blogger's Daily Routine

Cover of
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New Yorker, New York Times Style, Twitter And Me


I Got My Retweet Button Now
This Blog's Alexa Rank Is Up Substantially
Twitter Should Go For A Netscape-Like IPO
I Have Access To Twitter Lists
Jeff Jarvis, Me And Twitter
Content, Microcontent, Blogging, Microblogging
I Must Be Following A Lot Of People On Twitter
Between A Rock And A Hard Place: Jeff Jarvis, Jay Rosen
NYC Twitter Elite: Number 12
My First Tweet From My Phone  




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Wednesday, December 02, 2009

House4Cell: Mobile Real Estate System


SHANGHAI, CHINA - DECEMBER 12:  Visitors look ...Image by Getty Images via Daylife
House4Cell.com uses mobile technology to market real estate. You text in the code found on the property and and immediately you get all the information on the property and you get as many as three photos. People on the move will stay on the move. The thing is can you do business with people who are on the move? That is pretty much everybody these days.

House4Cell.com lets the realtors send flyers also over email and fax. It is all integrated. There are more ways than one. Noone else delivers real estate photos on Verizon phones but House4Cell.com.

Go mobile. Yes, you can.
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EZUnsecured.com


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EZUnsecured.com helps you finance your business. Credit is not easy coming by. That is where EZUnsecured.com comes in. This is not easy money, this is not free money. But when your business could really use some cash, and that cash is not coming the usual routes, and you have been knocking on the doors of banks without much success, that is where EZUnsecured.com will step in and make sense. But you better have a plan for that money. You better grow it right. Or you could get thrown off balance. They can take as much as 10% of the money they might find for you. That is the kind of price you have to be willing to pay for credit not so easily obtained. But if you know what to do with the other 90%, you should get going. EZUnsecured.com does unsecured financing.
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Elgg: A Job Marketplace


Overlap-between-business-designImage by Alex Osterwalder via Flickr
Elgg is a job marketplace. If you are looking for top designers, coders and talented techies in general, dig deep at Elgg Exchange. This is the go to place to find Elgg developers.

Too many job sites out there are too general. You post a job and you collect resumes like you might have collected stamps as a kid. It is often a deluge. Instead of finding someone to do your job, you get a job, the job to plough through an endless stream of irrelevant resumes.

Egg Exchange is much more specific. The site attracts top talent, developers who value "beautiful design, beautiful code, high standards." The site lists about 100 jobs at any one time. So it works great for those looking for jobs as well. It is not a flood. It just helps you make an informed decision. If you are in the niche, you should not have to look around too hard.



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Monday, November 30, 2009

December 2009 NY Tech MeetUp

Eagle River Nature Center
A few quick NY Tech Minute pitches from:
Chocri
Dr. Chrono
SoupFly
Larva Labs and their Intelligent Home Screen

A talk from Josh Silver about Net Neutrality.

5 minute demos from these hot startups:
HotPotato
VodPod (also showing off Laminate)
The folks at ZURB showing off Notable & ItsScrumptious
Ogmento

If you can't make the event, you can watch live -- thanks to our partnership with Livestream -- at http://NYTM.org/Livestream

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All Inclusive Resorts



Breezes offers the above. Life's a breeze through Breezes.com. Breezes will take you to the Bahamas, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, Curacao, Panama and Brazil. What is your idea of a vacation? Take to the tropics. Contact for vacation plans, for weddings, for honeymoons. Call any time.

The site gives you detailed information on each offering, and it allows you to make all your reservations online. The pages are so photo and information rich, planning your vacation is going to feel like a mini vacation all on its own.

Make your life a breeze through Breeze.com.

Arrington's Thanksgiving

Flying free
  • Microsoft and old media: Not the best way to compete with Google.
  • 1997 Steve Jobs. A great way for Arrington to celebrate Thanksgiving.
  • Chrome add-ons.
  • Facebook has been lousy with search so far. It has to treat each update as that unit that we should be able to search. It has to be more than about looking up people.
  • Facebook updates did not kill Twitter. Twitter geo tagging will not kill FourSquare. I think FourSquare might be upto something.
  • Angel investing is not for the chicken hearted.
  • 999 business ideas.
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Finally, Twitter Ads

Lilac-breasted roller
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      Wednesday, November 18, 2009

      Online Casino Gambling Pub


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      Gambling Pub is a rating site. If you are going to gamble online anyway, it is best you play it safe and are informed. You don't want to end up in the clutch of scamsters, and you want to have a ton of fun. When you are looking for your casino online this site comes in handy. It has reviewed and rated many of the online casino games and tallied them in a user friendly way so you don't have to browse around hoping to find just the right casino games for you.The site also lists free casinos for those who want to have some fun without having to dip into their pockets. The reviews are specific. The site strives to be your one stop shop for all your online gambling needs. Bonus size, payout percentage, customer service, game features, number of games, software graphics, ease of use: these are some of the metrics used to tally the various online casinos. All the top ones in the country are listed. This site helps you get the most out of online gambling, in terms of how much money you might win, and in terms of how much fun you might have. The site helps you discover and cater to your personal gaming style.
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      Monday, November 16, 2009

      When O'Reilly Said 2.0

      jonge Koolmees - Parus majorImage by Frans Persoon via Flickr
      • Obama not on Twitter. This makes the "humbled" tweet really interesting.
      • Outright book keeping.
      • Microsoft to Google: that was fast.
      • IBM eating its own dog food on business analytics.
      • That all in one device will be the Internet Computer. It will replace the PC, the Netbook, the smartphone, the Kindle.
      • When O'Reilly said Web 2.0. This interview is of outsize importance. 
      • And what are those mistakes?
      • Tablet PC. Still elusive. Overhyped? 
      • A L
      • Droid does? 
      • Slum kids' easy ways with the computer.“Where’s my Oscar?” Ha!
      • Mashable beat TechCrunch on page hits with Twitter marketing.
      • Anonymous no more.
      • Amazon + Twitter.
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      This Blog's Alexa Rank Is Up Substantially

      TwitterImage via Wikipedia
      A few days back I realized this blog's Alexa rank is up substantially. Right now it stands at close to 200,000. Early this year, if I remember it right, it was closer to 2,000,000. Maybe it was 1.8 million. But it was definitely up and above the million mark. My two other blogs are still past the million mark, way past. How did this happen. I can take a guess. My guess is this blog went up in the ranks because it is this blog that I link to from my Twitter page, and as I have moved from 300 followers to more than 30,000 followers on Twitter, my Twitter page has gone up in value.When someone follows you on Twitter it is like they linked to your Twitter page from their Twitter page. That drives up the web value of your Twitter page. So a link to this blog from my Twitter page is a valuable link. Hopefully that translates into better rates for blog post ads.

      Twitter Should Go For A Netscape-Like IPO

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      Sunday, November 15, 2009

      Web Search, Real Time Search, Social Search


      • Web search, real time search, social search.The social search space is in major flux.
      • Murdoch, Madoff, Mark Cuban. Cuban is missing the point. He is going back to the era of the Yahoo directories way of doing search. The list of the top 1,000,000 sites is in constant flux as it should be.
      • Twitter and Google. This is a dream come true for me. Index all tweets ever. Index all real time tweets. And then help make sense.
      • Facebook updates are very valuable. I am counting links to news articles and videos among the updates. You have your personal repository that you want to dig into at a later date.
      • If Twitter is your entry point to the web which is your entry point to the world, does that put Twitter in some kind of a central position? Sure.
      • The Google Chrome Operating System is showing up earlier than I had expected. But I guess they did say some time in Fall, did they not? A Netbook with a large enough screen with a Chrome OS on it, now that would be something. 
      • Unless Twitter grows and keeps adding new features to richen the experience, it might stay among the tech elite.
      • If this is not JP Rangaswami
      • Give India time. There is space for many Silicon Valleys across the world.
      • A Yahoo Connect sounds like a good idea.



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      Saturday, November 14, 2009

      And If This Is Not JP Rangaswami

      Deindexing Murdoch


      • For Murdoch to deindex from Google and to ask Bing to pay to be able to index, that goes against the basic ethos of the internet. This goes against the spirit of Net neutrality
      • Google paying to Twitter is not the same thing. Because Twitter does real time search, Google does not do real time search, so Google pays Twitter to be able to offer real time search.
      • For the media companies to start playing this indexing, deindexing game would be problematic. Instead of the move resuscitating the old media empires, it might be a huge bonanza to the blogosphere.
      • In short, the deindexing move would be an act of self-destruction on the part of old media.
      Murdoch's Google Gambit - The Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com 
      Google, Murdoch, Madoff « blog maverick
      Murdoch: Google? We don't need no stinkin' Google | Blog ... 
      Suddenly Murdoch is a Real Threat to Google? 
      Is Murdoch Handing Google a Ransom Note? « J. Nelson Leith 
      Rupert Murdoch Plans To Hide His Sites From Google, The World ... 
      Google Boycott Would Only Cost Murdoch About 10%-15% Of Revenue ... 
      Baron von Tollbooth: Murdoch, Google and money 
      Google to Murdoch: Whatever, Dude - Rupert Murdoch - Gizmodo 




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