Analysis Dancing With Gorillas: The New Web Era The new Web era is about the mainstream. This is when millions of small businesses and digital free agents make a good living by providing better products to a much more savvy market. This is the point in the Crossing the Chasm model when all the innovation stops, start-ups get consolidated into a few mega players and it all gets a bit boring until… Bernard Lunn View comments
News Sk*rt is Over, Long Live Sk*rt: Women's Site Holds Vote for New Company Name Sk*rt, the small but quickly growing Digg-style site for women, announced tonight that it's changing its name and is asking its users to vote for what the new site will be called. The much smaller and just-a-touch younger women's magazine Skirt.com has been trying to get its hands on the Sk-rt.com domain name for some time and clearly the name… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Features Wanted: 5 Startups To Change the World Umair Haque is a smart guy. He studied neuroscience at McGill, did an MBA and econ/strategy research with Gary Hamel at London Business School, and began working towards a PhD in strategy and innovation at Oxford in 2004. He also founded Bubblegeneration, a consultancy that studies the economics of consumer-facing industries. Haque is now the… Sarah Perez View comments
Non-Profits Report: 'Mobile Activism' on the Rise Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in NGO Mobile Use, a report released today by the United Nations Foundation and the Vodafone Group Foundation, uses 11 case studies to detail how relief, advocacy, and development organizations are utilizing mobile technology to accomplish goals in areas where "wired" infrastructure is sparse. The case… Josh Catone View comments
Google Google Street View Gets Some Direction Since launching in May of last year Google's Street View maps have expanded from the original 5 cities to 44 regions. Street View has largely been seen as a "fun" tool -- Wired held a contest to find the best images captured from the service last spring, for example -- and some have even found it rather creepy. Today, Google added Street View… Josh Catone View comments