a quick assessment methodology of User eXperience
Social networking and media consolidates niches, forms new brands; long tail concept as we knew it dies and becomes a specialized thick tail.
Android will also pull video onto mobile platforms such as the iPhone SDK or Google’s Android, but first successful commercialization of services will more likely come from hardware vendors than from current Web2.0 applications.
The end of the “Silicon” in Silicon Valley has been obvious for a long time, even if the timing has not. Given housing costs, salaries, regulation, water and energy issues, manufacturing in the Bay Area has been heading for the exit for more than a decade.
TiVo announces YouTube videos on TiVo box, including YouTube’s long awaited API and YouTube Everywhere. In an earlier Whitepaper from October 2007, The Evolution of Digital Entertainment, I pointed to the new ways TiVo needs to align technology, markets,and demographics in order to capitalize on content. It looks like they moved quicker than I thought.
Bill Gates asked a question on LinkedIn that generated ~2800 answers in 3 days: “How can we do more to encourage young people to pursue careers in science and technology?”
Office2.0 applications become so ubiquitous, that I already use the term “standalone” for SaaS applications that run in a browser from a server, without any additional mashup or as a plugin within other applications…
Sales are up 24%, earnings up 75%, margins topping 30%, stock price up 146%; shortcomings of iPhone, iPod are a calculated risk for upgrading, upselling, re-hyping; I would sell my shares if Apple got its iPod right.
The definition of IPTV seems to be ambiguous - either because out of common misunderstanding of technology, out of ignorance, or on purpose. We differentiate between first generation of IPTV, second generation of IPTV, and TelcoTV. IPTV is not (yet) VoD, a transport mechanism, web TV or Internet TV, or Mobile TV.
Yesterday the 3 Group presented their 3 Skypephone, for sale at November 2nd in the UK and Italy for about 100 US-Dollars bundled with a pre-paid plan, or free if you choose a 18-months contract. It is basically a cheap Internet-ready 3G mobile phone with a 2 megapixel camera. It doesn’t even have a cool [...]
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