It's a shame to hear from Bob Wyman that PubSub is in trouble and in big danger of shutting its doors. Bob says that "internal political issues" are behind PubSub's demise and implies that this has deflected resources from actually improving the product. It's not my place to comment on...
The official FIFA World Cup website is run by and co-branded with Yahoo. A Washington Post story today highlights the interactive and multimedia features of the site - including blogs, chat, and three- to five-minute video highlights for all of the 64 games. Also in lieu of live webcasts (not...
Mike Arrington's a bit peeved at Google. His post is a good vent, but to me the key bit was way down in comment number 33:"...my main gripe is that I want to understand what Google’s overall game plan is. I just don’t see it."Nobody knows what Google's grand plan...
The Microsoft VC Summit 2006 happened a week or two ago, but I've only just had a chance to review the posts that came out of it. If you're interested in where Microsoft is headed with its product range and general Web strategy, there are some nuggets in the coverage....
Yesterday Yahoo! held their Analyst Day - the 188-page slide presentation is here (12MB). There's too much in the preso for any one mind to fully comprehend, but here are the things that stood out for me...Yahoo's Big Bets for the Next 5 YearsSee slide 16:1. Next Generation Experience -->...
Tim Bray in a post entitled What Matters: "Every day that goes by I believe more and more that the only important new thing is that the Net is read-write. Everything that matters follows from that."I came across this the same day that I noticed a newround of 'defining web...
There's been a lot of talk recently about Josh Kopelman's post, in which he wrote:"As more and more entrepreneurs start building what Fred Wilson referred to as second derivative companies, I think they run a big risk of designing a product/service that is targeted at too small of an audience....
As a Web (2.0) consultant and analyst (about me), I track a variety of market segments and products. Luckily for me, nowadays I don't have to do as much grunt work on gathering high level product data as I used to. There are a plethora of product lists and data...
Mike Riversdale asked an interesting question in the comments of my previous post:"What, in your (and others) opinion, is the difference (if any) between the "online desktop" (A) (I'm thinking Netvibes and the like) and the "Personal Content Network" (B)."Actually I'm seeing a lot of crossover and cross-pollination in the...
In Part 1 of this series I introduced the concept of Microcontent Design, followed by a case study of BBC's developer network backstage.bbc.co.uk in Part 2. Now let's look at what's being built by external parties, using the BBC Backstage ecosystem. Specifically this post is an in-depth and developer-focused look...
John Hagel has a thought-provoking post about microchunking and media businesses. It follows on from Umair Haque's post, in which Umair said that "unbundling" media (e.g. Disney releasing tv shows for free online) is only half the equation. The other half - the real value - is in "rebundling". By...
Some interesting posts recently on the Internet TV trend, which is really ramping up this year. Mark Cuban, who co-founded Broadcast.com in 1995 and sold it to Yahoo! in 1999, has a great post on his blog outlining some of the pros and cons of rich media on the Net....
In my latest ZDNet post, I review a recent JupiterResearch Concept Report entitled Understanding Google. Subtitle: Competing and Partnering with the Most Influential Company Online. It costs $750 to purchase this report, so I asked Jupiter's Michael Gartenberg if I could get it for free and blog about it -...
This is the first post in a series in which I will explore microcontent design."...content will be more important than its container in this next phase.That's a big shift for old media to come to grips with. Killer apps, such as search, RSS and video-capture software such as Tivo --...
Sometimes we all get so wrapped up in the latest Web 2.0 calendar, rss reader or search product, that we forget that some things labeled 'Web 2.0' are actually doing social good in the world. This is the case with NetSquared, which is a non-profit organization that aims to "increase...
Google has acquired what I chose as the 'best of breed' Web-based word processing app in my recent ZDNet post Web Office Suite [news via TechCrunch] The Writely blog is rightly chuffed:"...everyone told us it was crazy to try and give people a way to access their documents from anywhere...
TechCrunch has obtained screenshots of the as yet unreleased Google Calendar, called CL2. The leak came via Google's closed beta of about 200 participants. Apparently CL2 is a long way away from launch, but there are some meaty details in Mike's post. CL2 looks to be a very strong product...
The Google Analyst Day presentation makes for interesting reading. Thanks to Greg Linden for providing the early analysis and text from the now withdrawn powerpoint presentation (only available now as a 10MB PDF - sans the ppt notes unfortunately). Greg provided the notes to slide 19, which are fascinating for...
Jeff Jarvis is live-blogging the keynote of Tom Glocer, CEO of Reuters, at the Online Publishers Association. I got pretty excited by a similar speech by Associated Press CEO Tom Curley just over a year ago, so this Reuters keynote is pressing my buttons too. I particularly liked this point,...
The NYTimes reports that Yahoo! is backing off its big plans to create television-style original content for the Web. Fears that Yahoo original content will alienate movie studios and television networks appears to be behind this shift in strategy. In that sense, I can understand Yahoo focusing more on the...
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