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- Discovery Is The New Cocaine - Going Beyond EngagementJuly 12
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Excellent slides on the value of discovery as a critical component of your site. It's human nature.
- Rolf Skyberg and the Web 2.0 Petri DishJuly 3
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For those who haven't caught this one yet, here are Rolf Skyberg's slides from his eBay Developer’s Conference ‘08 presentation, “Web 2.0: Lies, Mystery and Opportunity.” Key takeaway: solve problems that your potential customers have and they won't look at paying for your service as a cost, but as an investment.
And here are Rolf's slides from last year in case you missed those too.
- 5 Web 2.0 Services I'd Like to See (and I'd actually pay for)June 30
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Some more thinking about Fred Wilson's musings that he's Bored with Web 2.0. While I certainly get excited when I find a new tool or site that becomes part of my web ecosystem, there's sadly a glut of tools that really have no role in making my life any better. There's a lot of me-too lately, and not a lot of actual problem solving. I can think of at least five problems that haven't been solved yet for me on the web. Figure out a way to do so, and you'll have me not only as a loyal customer but a loyal evangelist.
(To the best of my knowledge these don't exist, or at least haven't launched in any real way yet. If you know of a team working on them, please let me know.)1. Human Blog Translation Network
We're all aware of the echo chamber effect in the blogosphere, especially - Sunday fun with WordleJune 30
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Had a little fun with Wordle today, a java applet that builds a word map out of a chunk of text or someone's del.icio.us tags. I used the seedWatcher blogroll and post categories to whip this one up (font is called Gnuolane Free):
It's a nifty little tool, though not quite a Web 2.0 app, given it's a Java applet. The site outsources the CPU-intensive work to your local machine, rather than bog down the server of what is essentially a side project of IBM Research developer Jonathan Feinberg. In fact, though it's free to use and the images are yours to do whatever with, the code isn't open source and is actually owned by IBM. - Raising the video quality bar: Vusion's WARP video player deliversJune 27
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Online video is on fire these days. I'll once again cite the recent numbers out from Ipsos MediaCT, showing that 19% of all video watched anywhere, including traditional TV and DVD is now done online. With YouTube commanding about a 70% market share of all online video viewing, it means we've pretty much just accepted the lower picture quality for web video, at least for now. YouTube of course now offers higher-quality streams of videos where the publisher's have uploaded the larger versions. Still, it's not TV quality.
But true HD quality video is coming. We've seen a leap forward from Hulu with their HD content, along with blip.tv and Veoh setting a higher standard in terms of picture quality. What's the next step? Vusion (formerly Jittr) provides what they call "instant-on, full-screen, high quality streaming video." The Milpitas, CA-based company recently snagged the prestigious “Judges Choice” award in the video section of Under the Radar 2008.
Right now, they just have a handful of demo videos on their site to show off
