Scobleizer — Exploring the 2010 Web Pageflakes - The whole Web at your Fingertips! The Google Phone: This changes everything (mostly) We don’t have much information on the Google Phone just yet. In fact, it sounds more like a party favor than anything else. However, if and when Google starts selling this thing, prepare for some of the strangest – and coolest – times in mobile we’ve ever experienced. What do we know? It’s an HTC phone – probably the Passion, a distant cousin to the beautiful HD2 – with large touchscreen. But what if Google starts to sell this thing? For nigh on three decades computer manufacturers have been secure in their positions of power. But suddenly service providers are doing hardware. When service providers make hardware, they have a different set of priorities. PC makers are working in commodities. We don’t know enough right now to say how interesting this be, but it’s definitely intriguing.
Facebook Platform, One Year Later Today marks the one-year anniversary of the release of Facebook Platform. We figured it would be a fitting time to take a look at what the platform promised, what it’s delivered, and where it’s going in the future. The summary: Facebook Platform has been a victim of its own success, offering an unparalleled distribution platform that has appealed to both tens of thousands of legitimate developers as well as shoddy shotgun entrepreneurs looking to make a quick buck. Facebook Platform launched on May 24, 2007 to widespread acclaim. Only four days after the platform’s launch, iLike (then the leading 3rd party app) had accumulated 400,000 users – nearly 5% of all Facebook users had it installed. But after a couple of months, the novelty began to wear off. Facebook Platform had devolved into a cat-and-mouse game between developers and Facebook, as developers tried to maximize the number of users they could expose themselves to. Facebook continued to further tweak app restrictions.
10 Twitter Tools To Help You Track And Perform Better I’m guessing if you are reading this is because you use or want to use Twitter for more than just pure fun. Maybe you even have an objective in mind. Maybe you are trying to convert followers into prospects for your product or service or you are trying to increase traffic to your website or blog. Whatever those objectives are, having the right tools handy is always important. The good news is that there are applications out there that you can use to get some visibility on how you are doing and help you get in front of the right public. 1. TwitterCounter shows you stats based on your growth, it obviously counts your followers and following over a period of time but it also gives you a couple of cool digits like a projection of what your following base will be in a specific time, your ranking and your average daily growth. 2. Another destination with some cool data to take in consideration. 3. One of my favorites. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Bit.ly is more than a URL shortener. 10. Final Thought
Fox Interactive Launches Desktop/Website Widget Platform Fox Interactive Media will announce a new widget platform called SpringWidgets on Monday morning at the Widgets Live Conference in San Francisco. It is a unique offering in the increasingly complicated widget space, although the desktop portion of it only works on the Windows platform. Widget platforms today work on websites (see Google Gadgets and WidgetBox) or the desktop (see Yahoo Widgets). SpringWidgets has a few widgets already in the library, mostly showcasing Fox content from including IGN.com, FOXSports.com and MyFox local station sites. Each widget can be embedded on a website or placed on a desktop. They’ve also released a sofware development kit to allow developers to build their own widgets on the platform. In my opinion Microsoft is the largest competitive threat to the SpringWidgets platform. The technology behind SpringWidgets was originally developed by Sidereus Technologies, which was acquied by Fox Interactive in 2005.
Tech-Savvy Females Play a Large Part in LeWeb 2009 : The Next Wo leweb event image LeWeb 2009 was yet another interesting web event, gathering a very international crowd of over 2,000 people, from which just over 350 were women. The location was exquisite, the heating system was working and although the food was far from the quality you’d expect in France, there was plenty of it for everyone. The NextWomen Meetup The event kicked-off with a NextWomen meetup on Wednesday morning. Organised along with the help of Pamela Poole, the gathering attracted some very interesting women from across the World. Mihaela and Aleksandra Mihaela and Aleksandra outlined how Romanian entrepreneurial women often become project managers for other companies versus starting they own business due to lack of access to funding, and little personal savings. Serial Blogger Myriam Rosenrib quickly introduced them to some of France’s most influential Bloggers, helping them make the most of the event right from the beginning. Sokos startup competition An International Panel
Social Software Building Blocks / nForm / Customer Insight, Stra There are lots of definitions of social software out there, ranging from the clinical (“software that enables people to connect through computer-mediated communication”) to the pragmatic (“stuff that gets spammed”). While doing research for a recent workshop, I came across a useful list of seven social software elements. These seven building blocks–identity, presence, relationships, conversations, groups, reputation and sharing–provide a good functional definition for social software. The original list was assembled by Matt Webb (who was expanding on a list created by Stewart Butterfield). Not every social software system has all of these, but most of them have three or more. Flickr is for sharing photosSlideshare lets you share Powerpoint presentationsTwitter aims at presenceInstant messaging applications like AIM and MSN are about conversationLinkedIn tracks relationships Underneath the main honeycomb are examples of three social websites and how they use the building blocks.
Five Technologies That Will Keep Shaping the Web in 2010 As we’re coming to the end of this year, everyone starts to look towards the next one and there will no doubt be an upsurge of articles predicting the web trends of 2010 in the next days to come. However, in this article, we’ll be talking about what’s actually driving these trends now, and what they mean for the future of the internet. 1. CSS3, HTML5, and Fonts as a Service such as Typekit that cater to web browsers that already support the @font-face rule, are giving web designers the creative freedom that they have been coveting for a long time. CSS3 is opening up various new options for styling content on the web, from multiple backgrounds on page elements, better ability to select and style elements with greater specificity, and color gradients without reliance on static graphics, to simpler aesthetical improvements such as support for rounded corners without the need for complicated sliding doors techniques or JavaScript. So what will change? Some reading for you: 2. 3. 4. 5.