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The impending Age Of Abundance was prophecied in the scriptures thousands of years ago.
Monday, July 16, 2012
Google's Got It All: Phone, Tablet, Laptop
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Podcasting Should Be Easier
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Video blogging is easy. You can use something like YouTube.
And I don't count iTunes. It is a walled garden. I don't consider it part of the web experience.
The last podcasting platform that I used and liked for its ease of use was created by people who brought us Twitter. Too bad they shut it down. They should perhaps revive it.
There is tremendous opportunity with audio. For one, language barriers are less of an issue. It is less pressure than video blogging, and yet there is more emotional connection than in text blogging.
Quora: What Are The Best Podcasting Tools?
Podcasting With SoundCloud
Audacity
I'd have liked the SoundCloud option, if only because it is so easy to embed a SoundCloud file into a blog post. But there seem to be hoops to podcasting on SoundCloud.
Do you know of good options?
Fred Wilson, Mark Zuckerberg And Mobile
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| English: Mark Zuckerberg, Founder & CEO of Facebook, at the press conference about the e-G8 forum during the 37th G8 summit in Deauville, France. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Mobile does not reward feature richness. It rewards small, application specific, feature light services. I have said this before but I will say it again. The phone is the equivalent of the web application and the mobile apps you have on your home screen(s) are the features.Mark Zuckerberg: July 13: Zuckerberg Says Mobile Shift Is His Biggest Challenge
That is why Facebook should (and it looks like will) break its big monolithic web app into a bunch of small mobile apps. Messenger, Instagram (not yet owned by Facebook), and Camera are the model for Facebook on mobile.
User experience is not the only big change/challenge for companies trying to navigate this transition. Monetization is different too.
Approaches like display advertising don't work as well on mobile as they do on the web. And they don't work that well on the web. ARPUs (avg revenue per user) on mobile are lower for display based revenue models on mobile across the board.
On the other hand, commerce works great on mobile if you have a well integrated (one click) purchase experience. The freemium model (whether it is virtual goods in games, in app upgrades, or something else) works very well on mobile.
Facebook Inc. (FB) Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said his hardest job right now is figuring out how to adapt the world’s largest social network to mobile devices.
Bringing Facebook’s features to handheld gadgets is difficult because the user experience is so different than on desktop computers......
Friday, July 13, 2012
A GroupOn Pivot?
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The CEO’s focus now is on building what Mason calls the “operating system for local commerce”—a suite of software and technology services that would embed Groupon into every facet of every transaction on Main Street. (BusinessWeek)I was excited about GroupOn early on, and even when it got hammered after IPO, I kept thinking at least it is in the right space. I was strongly opposed to it getting bought by Google. And I feel like they are making the right next steps, at least at the vision level. And I like it that they are in Chicago. Which means New York City is a good place to be for high tech, high touch companies. GroupOn emphasizes writing skills and comedy. I like that also. It employs writers, salespeople.
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