Recently at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Kevin Kelly gave a great speech describing his thoughts on where the web is going.
He begins his presentation by stating that it was about 6500 days ago when Berners-Lee created the first web page. The internet began as something which linked computers. Next, web pages emerged and links were shared. Finally, the data within the pages began to become linked with each other. Mr. Kelly describes this process as un-structuring everything in the world down its most elemental form, and then restructuring it so that machines can read it. This restructuring…
Sony is tempting the users of their Playstation Network with a virtual world.
Home is a series of virtual spaces and places. It’s different from Second Life in that you choose which space you want to visit, and then teleport there, instead of walking or flying like in Second Life.
The PlayStation Network, which currently has about 13 million PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable registered users, is integral to Home. The PSN is the network that users access to play each other in online matches, download games or videos to the hard drives of their consoles, and records a player’s success in…
MySpace is sweetening the deal, yet again.
They are adding a Primetime Application, and with it comes every video currently on Hulu.
Once the app is added to and embedded in a profile, then the app can show all the videos on Hulu, MySpace originals, and videos from more than 150 licensed content partners.
The videos can be nicely expanded to full-screen and shared with friends. There’s an improved microsearch for all the videos on MySpace that can filter by category (film, TV, original, partner, etc) and an A-Z directory for the indecisive viewer who wants to casually browse (that would be me). Here’s…
We’ve seen plenty of news lately about print media scaling back, including the Christian Science Monitor and U.S. News and World Report ending their print editions to “focus on the web.”
Considering how much newsrooms are underfunded, understaffed and underutilized at many newspapers these days, it’s always surprising to me that they make delivering news or news tips so difficult.
Part of my day job is putting out news announcements to various media in a three-state area. Therefore, I spend a lot of time trying to contact reporters and editors at newspapers.
The newspaper industry in particular has been struggling with the growth of online…
In a great piece written over at the Artists House Music Blog, Andrew Goodrich breaks down what he believes are the healthy traits of a successful music business. He explains that in a such a buyer heavy market, the keys to keeping an entity healthy lie in creating value in absolutely everything you do.
His four main traits of a healthy (music)business are:
Have an easily identifyable competitive advantage.
Constantly strive to increase your product’s viral nature.
Create a social object through which people can build genuine connections and relationships.
Create a synergy amongst your products that points to your core competency.
I particularly love his mentioning of creating a positive feedback loop:
“Make…
From a post that I recently wrote on Artists House Music:
Calling all independent artists!!! Bandcamp is here, have no fear! I think.
For those of y’all who have not checked out bandcamp.mu, you’re missing out. Not only is this the sexiest place that I’ve seen where independent artists can call their music’s home, but it looks as if its not all bells and whistles.
I’m not going to explain all of the fancy features in detail, Ethan Diamond’s screencast is wonderful and I encourage everyone to take the six minutes to watch it; you won’t be disappointed. In particular, the graphs that show the differing…
Thanks to @keryp on Twitter who retweeted the link for this voting badge…yes, I voted this morning and got my Starbucks after. (Too bad they didn’t extend the free coffee to include lattes.) Yes, you may think it’s last minute–at least I went this morning and not this evening.So, if you haven’t voted yet, what are you waiting for? At least the free Starbucks should be incentive.
Social psychology fascinates me. That’s why when reading about studies regarding social psychology and social media I had to comment. As a result of said article, I found a cool online tool for ‘reading’ into a person’s profile. After trying to interpret a few individual’s ‘true’ personality traits from their online profile, I failed miserably. Goes to show people aren’t always what they appear to be.
In a recent post from Mobile Crunch, some interesting figures have emerged from a survey given by The Kelsey Group. Almost 19% of mobile phone users have smartphones, while 42% plan on owning one within the next few years.
The article points out that mobile search activity is up also.
Some takeaway figures of how phones are being used:
Downloaded or looked at maps or directions: 17.6 percent, up from 10.8 percent in 2007
Searched the Internet for products or services in their local area: 15.6 percent, up from 9.8 percent in 2007
Connected with a social network, such as MySpace or Facebook: 9.6 percent, up…
For those of you who don’t like getting your hands dirty…
