Powerful structures for product-driven organisations
A few years back, the idea of having all your music in your pocket was revolutionary. This was the game-changing thought behind the iPod, of course. But at the time, it was not a zero sum game. You'd also have everything on CD, and possibly vinyl. Maybe tape. For a few weeks in 1995, you… Continue reading A subscriber’s life
Amelia's amusing analysis of Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 came coincidentally on the same day that I was at a conference thingy and had been having exactly that discussion: what was 2.0 and how much of it was pure marketing sentiment. I couldn't disagree more. I think 2.0 is a radical shift in society. It… Continue reading Third time lucky
After all the nonsense of Information Revolution, it's great to see Ask.com doing some actually worthwhile stuff to try and improve their search engine. A lot of the front-end changes may owe a fair amount to the big G and emerging trends in the marketplace (including "suggests" style prompting) but there's some nice new stuff in… Continue reading Not a lot to Ask
When it comes to technology innovation, it's interesting to hear some people still talk about a "five-year plan". After all, YouTube went from zero to £1.65bn in 18 months. Google only lost their beta tag 7 years ago. Paradigms can change literally overnight. In this fascinating interview, Jobs and Gates reveal that they've not got a… Continue reading The Bill and Steve show
Rather than trying to predict new trends across the whole of the interweb, let's take things one at a time and try and trend spot just what will happen on Facebook, the site which - within the agency echo-chamber at least - appears to be becoming a bit of a phenomenon. With the minor exception of their API privacy… Continue reading Future of facebook
The site that promised to measure the size of the internet has failed dismally. It failed for the same reason that "viral" campaigns fail on the internet and in the real world - because the message or motivation wasn't strong enough. But this shouldn't be suprising, messages that captivate everyone are incredibly rare. Advertising people… Continue reading Size matters
Proving that despite their inability to cope with massive demand, Twitter still has a sense of humor (and following up from their page-not-found error), here's twitter's 500 (server error) page which has been available for all to see for much of the last 24 hours: Not a great advert for Ruby on Rails (on which the… Continue reading This twitter is undergoing “planned maintenance”
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