Web Office Holotof - Crowdsourcing Creativity Holotof is a network of "advertising creatives", which enables businesses to come and pitch them work - in the form of ad projects and campaigns. The idea then is that creatives submit ideas for the pitch and the client chooses the best one to work with. The site was launched in May this year by Robby Ralston, a native of Peru. Robby told me via… Richard MacManus View comments
Digital Lifestyle Laszlo To Release a WebOS While in San Francisco earlier this month, I met up with Laszlo’s Founder and CTO, David Temkin, along with CMO Kent Libbey. Laszlo has an open source Ajax application development platform called OpenLaszlo - which has been used for external apps like Pandora (online radio and music sharing) and ishares.com (Barclays sharemarket app… Richard MacManus View comments
Trends R/WW Trend Watch: User-generated Sites Define This Era of the Web Lloyd Sakazaki has written a good overview of recent trends in global websites. It is based on Alexa data, a stats source which comes under regular fire for its faults (most recently ex-Netscape boss Jason Calacanis took aim). Nevertheless, there are some interesting underlying trends in the Seeking Alpha article. Not new trends, but well… Richard MacManus View comments
Web Office Google Docs and Spreadsheets Interview Interesting podcast interview by Gizbuzz, with Jen Mazzon and Sam Schillace of the Google Docs and Spreadsheets team (both ex-Writely). They start off by saying that D&S is aimed at "people who need to collaborate and share their stuff online". To the question of whether people are using it instead of desktop apps (such as Excel), Jen said that… Richard MacManus View comments
Google Poll: Will Google develop a GoogleOS? Our post this week about GoogleOS led to some vigorous and fascinating discussion in Read/WriteWeb. 87 mostly thoughtful comments were left here, plus many more on Slashdot and Digg. To get a final, more succinct, picture of whether R/WW readers expect to see a GoogleOS - here is a poll for you. I hope there are sufficient options in it… Richard MacManus View comments