The history of the Web until now has been about the blocking and tackling of information. Porting offline to online. Yada yada yada.
Social web is kind of a self psycho-analysis sharing of id, ego and super ego.
But what we all really want is this: The Relevant Web. It’s coming now. What you NEED to know.
But [...]
MySpace blew its chance in 2007/8 to really clean up the site and make it more useful. Best shot it has now is to try and appeal to kids 12-18 since how many kids want to be on Facebook with their grandmas? [...]
What Apple, Google & Microsoft Have To Do In 2010
Two things:
1) mobile
2) [...]
While the media have focused on housing, TARP and other things, the NASDAQ has gained more than 30 percent in the past six months. Technology has been growing rapidly, with companies like Baidu (largest search engine in China) up more than 86% since May. Apple shares have rocketed up 72%.
I wanted to share with you [...]
Las Vegas has long played host to high rollers, Elvis impersonators, midnight marriages between complete strangers, and more circus acts than tourists baking in the desert sun. Only the crew rolling into town September 21 actually in many ways is more important than any of them. It may not seem so on first [...]
All of these could be considered “viral” marketing successes –
according to the marketing [...]
In the world of famous threesomes there’s Larry, Moe and Curly; The Three Musketeers; Paris Hilton, Britney Spears and Madonna. But the battle for media will be fought by these three: Apple, Google and Microsoft.
All three companies are engaged in multiple battlefront wars with each other: search, software, hardware, services.
Apple’s banning of the Google Voice [...]
The real story about media this year is that Apple looks like more of the future than anyone talked about at Sun Valley. And Steve Jobs wasn’t even [...]
Digital goods expand, not contract. In the old TV series Star Trek Captain Kirk
comes across the Tribbles which multiply amazingly [...]
One of the biggest myths running around the web and tech industries today is the idea of ‘first mover [...]