It was great to see the comments from people in Ottawa, Toronto and Waterloo discussing the strength of, and differences between each community. It’s a testament to the connection between the Ontario’s tech centers. What’s missing – beside Montreal - is this same discussion on core problems that affect all Canadian tech companies - like [...]
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While talking about the Social Media Press release yesterday I mused about the need for real-time communications to be included in the system.
Actually the call is for a much broader inclusion of person to person or person to group communication in Internet services - direct discussion between people using a site and between users and [...]
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Posted in Business Process, Innovation, Internet on January 22, 2008 | Comments Off
I’m not a network person in fact I can hardly get two devices to share files – yet I found this 18 month old talk by Van Jacobson incredibly compelling and though provoking.
What Mr. Jacobson does is make an arcane subject – Network Typology both easily understood and relevant.
What becomes clear is that network architecture [...]
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I’ve been watching the growth of Iotum’s Free Conference calling service because conferencing is the perfect voice service for social media. So it was that last Friday I sat in on Alec Saunders Voice Mash-up conference call (download podcast) to learn where he, and a number of voice evangelists (Thomas Howe, Jim Courtney, Andy Abramson) [...]
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Jeff Jarvis writes that the Washington Post, which recently posted its 10 Web Principles needs an 11’th – a commitment to collaborate with readers.
His argument seems to be that the paper is still casting its self in the center and hasn’t come completely to grips with its role as an institution shaping the relationship it [...]
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Posted in Internet, Long Tail, Media, Radio on June 26, 2007 | Comments Off
Internet Radio goes silent today to protest large retroactive increases in royalty fees.
Sounds like a sleeper of an issue made worse by a campaign that doesn’t make sense! It shouldn’t be. This is an important issue that at its heart looks like a battle royal over the business models and revenue that will effect the options [...]
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Jeff Jarvis asked what newspapers will look like in 2020. It’s an interesting question because 13 years is a huge timeframe – when you consider what the past 13 years have wrought. But here’s a stab.
First the underlying processes technologies that are in evidence now, or in accelerated adoption cycles, will be the same processes [...]
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Posted in Advertising, Internet, Marketing, Media, Social Software on June 13, 2007 | Comments Off
Om Malik in his review of the Apple-Bebo announcement to sell iTunes through Bebo’s social network asks “Can we expect more such deals’?.
He believes we will – in large part because social networks are not attracting advertisers at the rate their incredible page views would suggest.
I’d agree in the short term that such deals will increase [...]
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Michael Goldhaber’s prescient 1997 article “The Attention Economy and the Net” argues that we are at a time of transition between economic systems. The industrial economy is giving way to an attention economy – and with it the way value is apportioned.
The underlying argument is that when there is an abundance of information the value [...]
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Posted in Internet, Media on May 29, 2007 | Comments Off
Six web luminaries answer 4 questions on the next web.
Tim O’Reilly - CEO O’Reilly Media
Martin Mickos - CEO MySQL
Jay Adelson - CTO Digg
Eric Meyer - CSS/HTML Expert - meyerweb.com
Matt Mullenweg - CEO Automatic
Steve Rubel - MicroPersuasion.com
on:
1. How are you influencing or building the Next Web?
2. What will the problems and bottleneck be?
3. How important is [...]
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