Analysis Platform Power - "Show Me The Money!" As Dilbert knows, everything is a platform today. The trouble is, some very smart people are trying to figure out the definition of what makes a platform. Although a lot of the discussion has been technical, perhaps the best definition of a successful platform is that it makes real money for their ÄúcommunityÄ?. According to a 2005 survey… Bernard Lunn View comments
web MatchMine Raises $10m for Media Recommendation Engine MatchMine, a Massachusetts company building a cross-platform media recommendation engine, announced this morning that they have received a $10 million investment from The Kraft Group. The company released an early product called MyMovieMatch in July, but in the bizarre DEMO dance of "now you see us now you don't," the product has gone back under… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Analysis E-Commerce 2.0: Interview with Salim Ismail, Head of Yahoo! Brickhouse On the latest edition of our podcast show, Read/WriteTalk, Sean Ammirati sat down with Salim Ismail, the head of YahooÄôs Brickhouse. In this role, Salim is exposed to hundreds of proposals from Yahoo employees each month for products to be developed. One of the most interesting trends these days is "e-commerce 2.0" and Sean asked Salim… Richard MacManus View comments
News 3Tera to Bring Grid Computing to Game Development Massively multiplayer online games are big business. Blizzard's World of Warcraft, for example, has over 6 million users paying up to $15/month to log into the game (though an oversimplification, it is probably safe to assume that they're pulling down in the tens of millions of dollars per month from subscription fees). But running a… Josh Catone View comments
Analysis Top-Down: A New Approach to the Semantic Web Earlier this week we wrote about the classic approach to the semantic web and the difficulties with that approach. While the original vision of the layer on top of the current web, which annotates information in a way that is "understandable" by computers, is compelling; there are technical, scientific and business issues that have been difficult… Alex Iskold View comments