Saturday, June 24, 2006
Amazon may get in Second Life
From BusinessWeek.
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels revealed that a group of Amazon engineers is looking at ways to use Amazon Web services to bridge Amazon with Second Life. According to a comment by Vogels at the virtual-worlds blog 3pointD.com, it's not an official project. But it's no secret that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is an investor in Second Life creator Linden Lab, so I don't doubt those engineers will come up with something.
ADSDAQ
ADSDAQ — an online exchange similar to the NASDAQ where advertisers and media owners can trade.For more, please read 360techblog.com.Google and eBay are the front runners right now.
ClaimID !
ClaimID lets you verify, track, classify, annotate, prioritize and share the information that is about you online. It is ready for you to register!
You are going to have an online identity for the rest of your life.
Internet Cases
Evan Brown is an attorney and he has a blog internetcases.com.
I found it is a good resource to study some cases.
I found it is a good resource to study some cases.
Friday, June 23, 2006
Every Release kills 50% of software
Xedant research has a article mentioned that very next release kills 50% or more software businesses.
And if you want to more details, you can read it here.
Here is another article talking about most profitable software.
We see that v2.0 get 40% less downloads than v1.0. Why? Mostly because software developers make their second release much more powerful (and complex) than the first one. People who haven't used the very first version often can't figure out how to use v2.0
And if you want to more details, you can read it here.
Here is another article talking about most profitable software.
Largest photo sharing sites
What is the largest photo sharing site? Maybe you want to say Flickr. But you will be suprised to look at the stats from Hitwise. And here is the list of Top 3:
1. Photobucket.com
2. Yahoo! Photos
3. Webshots Community
For more details, please click here.
1. Photobucket.com
2. Yahoo! Photos
3. Webshots Community
For more details, please click here.
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Craigslist
I think that everyone knows craigslist and I check it very often. Founder Craig Newmark mentioned that big problems for craiglist are:
- Spam
- Malicious political propaganda
- Illegal activity
- Journalists hug Craig a little too tight (he didn't say that but you know it's true)
Windows Live VS Google Labs
Release of Windows Vista is coming soon.
When you look at Window Live Ideas,
When you look at Window Live Ideas,
This website reminds me of Google Labs, and their beta applications that are currently available for everyone to download and try out for free. I predict that Google will split into two sectors of their company, one will focus on their main revenue producer which are google adwords, adscense and the other will continue developing software applications and might even take on Microsoft in their battle of taking over today’s corprate environment.
Naked Conversations
I am reading "Naked Conversations" by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel.
It is very interesting book and I will provide my review after I am done with reading.
It is very interesting book and I will provide my review after I am done with reading.
Opera 9 is available
ITWire has an arcitle named " Opera making big profits from free software" . It explains why Opera can generating $14 Million gross profit out of $30 Million revenue.
Here is the link if you want to read.
The company has several main revenue sources. It licenses the browser to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), such as Motorola, to operating system owners, such as Symbian and user Interface (UI)/middleware owners, such as Canal+. Since 2003 it has focussed on offering the browser directly to other players that are placed higher in the value chain such as mobile operators.
It also collects revenue from integrated search and shopping bars, and partner companies pay a fee to Opera every time a user users the integrated search or shopping bar. Opera cooperates with a few select partners it feels can contribute value to its product and users. It says that deals with companies like Google, Fast, Lycos, InfoSeek, Yahoo, Amazon, and eBay are showing constant growth in revenues for Opera.
Opera also delivers a full-featured, embeddable version of its desktop browser that can be integrated into a wide range of applications. Adobe and Macromedia are important partners in this segment.
And when users subscribe to the premium version of its Webmail service, Opera splits the revenue with Outblaze, the company that operates the service.
Here is the link if you want to read.
"The damn thing was on fire and produced several explosions for more than five minutes"
Here are some startling pictures from theinquirer.net.
Big.com
I do not understand big.com. Didn't they know that you can change font size of any website by pressing CTRL-Rolling mouse wheel?
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Where are social networks going?
Ben explained that "Why advertising won’t work for a social network" in his post.
And PRBlogging said "Monetizing MySpace shouldn’t be hard" and "MySpace is a brand that is bigger than Fox".
I think this is very interesting topic and here is my comment on Ben's post:
And PRBlogging said "Monetizing MySpace shouldn’t be hard" and "MySpace is a brand that is bigger than Fox".
I think this is very interesting topic and here is my comment on Ben's post:
Monday, June 19, 2006
HDTV
From micropersuasion.com
There are not much content in 1080i high definition
mariposaHD covers beauty, adventure and style and is produced out of Argentina. The show is distributed on BitTorrent. The content can be viewed on a PC, HDTV, or a video iPod.
Spam Distribution
There is article mentioned 64% of spam comes from Taiwan, if you want to read it, click here.
Sunday, June 18, 2006
kbcafe
Do you want to search blogs, boards, code, images, jobs, links, msdn, myspce, news, shopping, tags, videos AND web at the same site? Then you may want to take a look at kbcafe .
Reviews
Notied monstersandcritics.com today and it covers a broad source of entertainment news and reviews, as well as coverage of world news, technology, sport and science.
Magazine
I subscribed a lot of magazine and continue to look for some new ones. Here is a complete list of all
magazine
magazine