Whuffies? Someone tell me this is a joke – Please.
I realize that the Web is all about innovation – or at least a good attempt at it while the VC dollars keep rolling – but when I read about something called The Whuffie Bank which was part of TechCrunch50 my first thought was that the Web...
What do you think? Pretty close or what?
If websites had personalities and a human body this is what our more popular web sites might look like – maybe. hat tip to My Modern...
The Pushbutton Web, The Wave and the rest of us.
We are heading into an era of some pretty incredible developments when it comes to the web. Developments that potentially make what has come before and makes up much of the web we use daily seem like the Dark Ages of the Internet. No longer are just static...
So a picture can be worth a 1,000 word blog post
The sad part is that this is pretty close to the truth courtesy of Dark Roasted...
Does this mean we could get our video games for free?
When it comes to Web 2.0, social media and the whole new web economy much is made about how we make our money. Bloggers are berated when we try to monetize our blogs in any fashion, musicians are laughed at when they try and make money by...
[WinExtra Rebranding] The Name game isn’t a game
This is the first in what will be an on-going series of posts about my experiences of rebranding WinExtra and my online identity into something more, and hopefully better, than what is was. You can read about the reasoning behind this decision here rather than me recapping it every...
The monster we have created – A response to Doc Searls
The other day Doc Searls; who I consider one of the smartest people around, wrote an interesting post asking if journals could live on subscriptions. My basic take-away from it was that he was suggesting that indeed they could albeit not as profitably. He points out that direct support...
An observation of Web 2.0, Apple and Openness
What two things seem to go together like Mutt & Jeff when it comes to the early adopter and developer crowds as we move further and further into our social media world? Yes, you guessed it – Apple products and a professed – sometimes unexplainable – fervour for openness and...
The more things change the more they stay the same
I wouldn’t want to be Nick Bradbury and Newsgator right now given the firestorm that has erupted around the fact that FeedDemon; my RSS reader of choice, is testing out running ads in one small section of the interface, down under the tree list of accounts. I’ve just spent...
There’s no such thing as ‘local’ online news
Social media and New Media pundits would have you believe that the reign of that nasty old media is coming to an end. Newspapers are seeking bankruptcy protection. The industry is slashing jobs across the board. Everywhere you turn there is nothing but doom and gloom at the news...
