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“Have to Get Better at Believing the Impossible” | a Look at the Future of the Web
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…
Chrysler is listening to a few of us
I’m one of the newest members of Chrysler’s Customer Advisory Board. Hopefully, that actually will mean something in the near future, even if Chrysler gets bought by GM.
A while back I stumbled upon (literally, not StumbleUpon) the fact that Chrysler wanted to interact more with consumers to garner feedback on their products and their decisions. Chrysler Listens is the concept and if you’re interested you can visit the Web site and offer your opinions.
You also can submit your name and hope to be one of the 2,000 “insiders” who get to be on the Customer Advisory Board.
It’s a great concept and…
Internet and Digital New Media’s Election Coverage vs. Television’s
With a Pew Research survey just days before Barack Obama’s election finding the Internet is now second only to television as a primary campaign news source for Americans, election night seemed the perfect time for a coverage comparison. For the new media side, I chose my personal favorites, Markos Moulitsas’ Daily Kos and Arianna Huffington’s Huffington Post online journal. For TV, I took my personal favorites NBC/MSNBC and perennial standby CNN.
Somewhat surprisingly – at least for me – TV largely annihilated the Internet and digital new media players. It was a reversal of the 2006 congressional election coverage, when the politically savvy Moulitsas and company ran…
Internet Surpasses Newspapers as Source for Campaign News
When I said in August newspapers are doomed, I didn’t realize how fast the demise is progressing. According to a new Pew Research survey, the Internet is now second only to television as a primary campaign news source for Americans.
Many more Americans are turning to the internet for campaign news this year as the web becomes a key source of election news. Television remains the dominant source, but the percent who say they get most of their campaign news from the internet has tripled since October 2004 (from 10% then to 33% now).
Contrasted to the web’s considerable growth for campaign news…
“Straddling” Online and Offline Marketing
George Howard, author of 9GiantSteps, former president of Rykodisc, teacher at Loyola University New Orleans, and executive editor at Artists House Music, has come up with a new term to describe how companies balance their marketing strategies between the online and offline worlds.
He calls it “the straddle.” In the article, he explains that many companies are in fact using the straddle (some better than others, ex. Facebook over MySpace), but the odd thing is that nobody is really talking about it.
I’ll take it in Chrome Please! Google’s new browser is here.
Right.
A few years have passed since we started using Google search engine and I remember clearly that I liked it from day one. I even remember the first days I open my Gmail account with a full 1gig for e-mails which back in the days was unreal comparing to other free on-line e-mail services. I wont forget the day I saw a full length movie on google video in great quality without leaving my own chair!
Today Google is as known as the moon, my Gmail account has more then 7.5 gigs of free space to store e-mails and my own…
Olympic Media Convergence: Closing Thoughts
Okay, I admit, I’m a hopeless junkie for the athletic excellence of the Olympic games – summer and winter. But Beijing 2008 
should have excited even those media and new media junkies the least interested in athletics. NBC’s standard setting closing credits video montage alone was a must see for any video editor. But most significant was how NBC’s multi-platform presentation combined broadcast, cable, Internet, video-on-demand, and pay-per-view while also delivering video as it was captured in Beijing to three screens: TV, PC, and smartphone.
The many promises of digital new media are incalculable. But its gold medal event can’t happen without more advanced technologies. So…
FCC Ponders Future of Internet
An unusual and notable event occurs today at Carnegie Mellon University. The entire Federal Communications Commission appears at 4 p.m. at the Pittsburgh university known for film, media and new media studies to hear opinions on the Internet’s future. As a former Washington correspondent, I can attest to how very rare it is for all five FCC members to appear together outside Washington. Expect arguments for universal access, ensuring a choice of providers, protecting free speech and establishing a free market.
Speakers will include small businesses, bloggers, filmmakers, educators and others with a stake in where the Internet is going. Certainly don’t expect the phone and…
Web users ‘getting more selfish’ - A BBC News article.
OK.
I know that times are changing and with speedy broadband, little istuff in every corner, videocamz in my phone and no one to talk to, and toilets that speak about bulls**t! I start to see a change also in human web users patterns. I personally find that my moto as a designer shifted from ‘Mega blast in yo’face’ to ‘less is more’ and ‘ simple my son, simple!’…
So, finding this article in the BBC Technology news website was no surprise to me. I have trust in the user, hell, I am one, so I’m not quite sure about selfish. Impatient maybe, but…
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