ReadWriteWeb broke the news a couple of days ago that Facebook is going to allow users to log in with their OpenID credentials granted by other sites, such as GMail, AOL, Yahoo, or dedicated OpenID providers. You’ve probably seen this on other sites and the main benefit of reducing the number of [...]
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At their conference yesterday Yahoo! talked about how they are moving from a web of pages to a web of objects – search engine land has a good report on the details here, but Head of Yahoo! Labs Prabhakar Raghavan sums it up thus: We’re moving toward surfacing real-world objects rather than documents and [...] It is often the case that large companies and even whole industries lose touch with what it is that their customers like about them. When this happens they often develop their own incorrect hypotheses about what it is that their public like (or should like), and then when they see startups beginning to take [...] The following quote is from a memo Satya Nadella, Microsoft SVP of Research and Development of the Online Services Division, sent to all Microsoft employees back in March: In spite of the progress made by search engines, 40 percent of queries go unanswered; half of queries are about searchers returning to previous tasks; and [...] I first came across to Eric Ries’s excellent StartupLessonsLearned blog when I wrote about fear slowing execution last week, and then on Thursday Jussi Laakkonen of Finish startup Everyplay was enthusing about Eric’s model of putting the customer at the centre of the development process, so I went back and took another look at [...] Anyone with half an interest in Twitter and social media will have seen the kerfuffle that ensued when Twitter removed the feature that allowed users to see @replies from people they do follow but directed towards people they don’t follow – what you might not have seen is Biz’s latest post (apparently number 4 [...] Jeremy Liew of Lightspeed has posted a an analysis which shows that Apple has made no more than $20-45m in revenue from the app store. I won’t repeat the calculation here but it is a fairly straightforward product of the number of downloads, the average selling price multiplied by Apple’s 30% cut. This is [...]
Client Percent of Users Tweets per user Web 27.72% 4.38 TweetDeck 13.25% 6.24 Tweetie 7.74% 3.87 Twhirl 5.51% 4.68 Twitterfeed 4.14% 5.26 TwitterFon 2.77% 2.60 TwitterFox 1.96% 3.37 Text 2.77% 3.64 TwitterBerry 1.96% 2.86 It is great to see Tweetdeck so far out in front (and if you are wondering, Seesmic [...] Us Now is ‘A film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet’, and this is the question they pose at the top of their site. It is a great question too – ‘information is power’ is an old cliche, but in the web era information is everywhere, and hence ‘power’ [...] I’m always a bit wary about research like this as so much depends upon the questions asked, but nonetheless this makes good reading for those in the news industry: Some good news today for publishers now considering a paidcontent strategy – consumers have a willingness of 62 percent on paying for general news online, [...] |
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