Companies have been building ways to establish authority and credibility online since the beginning of the web. Yahoo started life as ‘Jerry’s guide to the world wide web’, a site where Yahoo founders David Filo and Jerry Yang lent their authority to what they viewed as the best sites. Google’s link based algorithm [...]
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The graphic towards the bottom of this post was on Techcrunch this morning. It shows Google’s acquisitions over the last nine years. It is interesting for a number of reasons (not least size, (sub) sector, accelerating rate, and reason for acquiring) but I’m going to focus on geography. I did a bit of analysis [...] Netflix, the US DVD rental cum video streaming business is out cutting $1bn deals with movie studios for streaming rights and Hulu is contemplating an IPO – both developments which suggest the premium video streaming business is starting to reach maturity. The music streaming business, by contrast, is still finding its way, and is [...] Reading this Techcrunch piece on Chomp, a provider of search and discovery for iPhone apps, prompted me to explore a question that has been circling in my mind in a somewhat unstructured fashion for a couple of weeks now – namely what is the difference between an app store and a portal? It seems [...] Yesterday I wrote about Google’s HTML5 apps on mobile and I want to share this comment that my friend Jof Arnold left in response: I love what this [HTML5] is doing for browser speeds; look at the performance of Chrome and Safari now (check out the demos on the Safari HTML5 gallery; realtime 3D [...] You may have seen the various reports today about the new YouTube HTML5 mobile site (perhaps the best write up is on Techcrunch) – they all say that the site runs as well or better than the native app on the iPhone, particularly with regard to video quality. Similarly there is a Google [...] The mobile press in the last week or so has been lavishing huge praise on Apple for the iPhone 4, which by all accounts is an awesome device, and I am particularly interested to see what apps developers will build using the new gyroscope, as well as excited by the new screen and the [...] Over on All Facebook they have been writing a lot this week about Facebook’s moves into search. Their thesis is that the ‘like’ is replacing the ‘link’ as a measure of authority and that Facebook has all the data to deliver the best search service. A couple of days ago they wrote about how [...] When Apple announced the acquisition of mobile ad firm Quattro Wireless back in January I wrote a post arguing that they were likely to leverage their control over the advertising ecosystem to the detriment of developers and content owners – and now they have. On Monday Apple announced new Terms of Service for [...] Hot on the heels of Google TV Sony has announced a deal with HBO to release shows for the PlayStation 3 and PSP. From yesterday HBOS shows old and new, including True Blood and two of my favourites The Wire and The Sopranos were viewable on the PlayStation Network (probably only in the US). [...] |
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