swissmiss: new wilkinson campaign is a great use of computer animation and a very entertaining ad making its point in an entertaining way. Increasingly, advertising needs to differentiate itself and, when it works, it can go viral very quickly.
Ten things the world can learn from open source:
Adoption precedes monetization
Lots of customers is a greater barrier to entry than lots of intellectual property
A business’ brand is its greatest asset in driving sales
Lower barriers to evaluating and using your product
Sell customer value, not vendor value
Most businesses aren’t widgets businesses
Product use should breed re-use and further [...]
‘We have broken speed of light’:
A pair of German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light – an achievement that would undermine our entire understanding of space and time.
If true, this is one of the most important scientific achievements of our time. The implications as far as communications are staggering as it [...]
Second Life (finally) gets a direct competitor: Multiverse «
The brainchild of several ex-Netscape execs, the Mountain View start-up Multiverse, as the name suggests, isn’t a single online world, but a platform for creating games and other 3D experiences with the company’s development tools, which are then run on its servers.
It will be interesting to [...]
EDS Next Big Thing Blog : Operational Automation will Always Win Out in the End (emphasis is mine):
I was talking with Randy Mears about this and he agreed that automation eventually will win out in areas that can be effectively automated, but many times the initial attempts are done poorly or for the wrong [...]
Newser is another attempt at presenting news-related information.
it matters a lot less to us that you use our web site than that you use our API
WeSabe Founder Marc Hedlund in “Making the web into a banking platform whether they like it or not“
I wonder how many Web 2.0 outfits understand the strength of that statement. The power of APIs may be where [...]
In “The Rise of the Social Operating System“, Nova Spivak (with whom I co-founded Earthweb’s developer.com) talks about the requirements for a “social stack” integrated system. In a lot of way, what he describes here is what one could hope to be the next generation of collaboration platforms.
Another worthy read on the same subject: “Could [...]
SocialMedia
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You create the apps.
We provide scalable, redundant hosting if required.
We promote it throughout the SocialMedia network.
Earn via sponsorships, CPM ads, and currency-related advertising.
An interesting business model: they provide hosting ad ad sales, in exchange for 50 percent of your revenue. [...]
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