Archive for the ‘ Internet ’ Category
You really have to hand it to those Google boys, they are smart. And they really know how to play the game of business, don’t they? Let’s recap just a little, but we have to think way back to the very beginnings of the presidential primary season. Google was humming along as usual, with no [ READ MORE ]
Given the timing of events, it’s hard not to compare the current Microsoft-Yahoo takeover battle with the recently concluded conquest of BEA by Oracle. Some of the parallels are quite obvious with large, stalwart, traditional software organizations making bids on younger, (some would say) cooler targets in areas tangential to the core of the would-be [ READ MORE ]
In case you missed it, an Internet failure has “crippled” most of the Middle East and North Africa. Two undersea data cables have been accidentally cut, causing “severe problems” from Egypt to India. While nobody is yet speculating officially, the economic ramifications could total into the trillions of dollars. Will this lead to mass hysteria? [ READ MORE ]
Don’t look now but 2008 is poised to be the year of the Web2.0 implosion. In brief, consumer confidence is low, retailers are projecting a slow holiday season, Web2.0 is all about advertising… this all leads to one big crash. (Ok, actually, I believe it’s going to be a relatively soft landing in mid-late 2008, [ READ MORE ]
I’ve been tough on eBay in the past, but it’s now necessary to give eBay its due. Not because I feel that my earlier criticism was in error, but because I don’t think eBay has gotten nearly enough credit for what amounts to a brilliant strategic move. To what am I referring? Nothing less than [ READ MORE ]
The news is coming fast and furious. I thought the dot-com boom was life at Internet speed, but this is ridiculous. It wasn’t all that long ago that Web2.0 was just a bunch of WYSIWYG tools to ease development of web content. In that respect, Web2.0 did for the Internet what Microsoft Word did for [ READ MORE ]
Web-IV is here. Yes, the messages of the past 6 months combined with the announcements of this past week have signaled that the evolution has completely bypassed Web 3.0 (I always hated that moniker anyway). The Web has skipped a generation. So, what is Web-IV? Web-IV is the ultimate convergence: the Internet the Web the [ READ MORE ]
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