At the Steve Jobs keynote speech at Macworld this morning PST, he announced "three revolutionary new products". An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator. But turns out it's all one device: the fabled iPhone!We'll have extended analysis about this later today, but for now let's review the news. Here's...
I recently came across a web service called ZCubes, which is one of those browser-based portal apps that lets you do virtually everything under the sun - social networking, develop a website, browse the Web using a special built-in browser, create media (pictures, audio, video), add RSS feeds and gadgets,...
Written by Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus You may feel relatively satisfied with the current search offerings of Google, Yahoo, Ask and MSN. Search today is undoubtedly much better than what it was in the second half of the 1990's. But Internet search is still in its infancy...
Reality Digital is an online video and social networking platform for business websites, for example those with a media and entertainment focus. Crudely put, Reality Digital enables businesses to set up their own branded YouTube. They view their competition as being the likes of VideoEgg, VidaVee, BlipTV - which are...
Transclick is a mobile enterprise application that translates text in email, SMS and IM. The software has been around for a while (see this CNNMoney.com article from March 2005), but is now starting to make waves as a business productivity tool. RIM Blackberry just announced Transclick as the winner of...
BuzzLogic was one of the hits of the recent DEMOfall 06 event. As Alex Iskold noted in his original post about the company, its software helps marketers track social influence among blogs and other web sites. We were as intrigued by BuzzLogic as everyone else, so Alex Iskold followed up...
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus.This week at DEMOfall I saw two vertical search applications that made me think that this area is getting mature and ready for prime time. Pluggd and Retrevo launched technologies that are not only good at finding podcasts and consumer electronics (respectively)...
Blogged Live from DEMOfall by Alex Iskold Until now, online music advertising has been a somewhat unsolved - sometimes controversial - problem. Today Lirix unveiled at DEMO an intelligent and elegant solution to the problem, called AdLirix. It is a smart, context-sensitive advertising solution that will allow musicians to make...
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus.With all this buzz around the potential Yahoo! acqusition of Facebook for $1Billion, we think it's time to do the social networking faceoff.Arguably of all services in the new social era, the social network sites hold most promise. The reason for this...
3Tera, a company based in California, has announced what it calls a breakthrough technology - "disposable infrastructure". This technology is the foundation of their product AppLogic, which they say is the "first grid operating system that runs and scales existing web applications." It almost takes a Comp Sci PhD from...
Interesting NY Times profile of Baidu, China's main search engine and currently the 4th biggest website in the world. It has a market value of $3 billion, but "some analysts" question whether Baidu can keep out competition from Google and Yahoo:"While Baidu continues to gain market share in China —...
Phil Wainewright wrote an excellent post recently entitled The great Web 2.0 application (s)mash-up. He starts by quoting Mohan Sawhney, professor at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management: "Five years from now, the concept of an application will be obsolete," Sawhney said. "They will all be services, combined, mixed, matched and reused...
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