I have already written a few pieces on Palm over the last 2 years: Before the iPhone was announced: * PALM to the boonies * PalmPod After the iPhone was announced: * Palm’s Turnaround Formula * Should Dell Acquire Palm? * Palm Changing Hands? In the context of our more recent discussion about how the [...]
We have reviewed the business story of Wize.com, now let’s take a look at their product from my Web 3.0 framework perspective. Context The Context in which you would come to Wize, is Product Research. The key to Wize is the Wize Rank, which is algorithmically derived from Expert Reviews and User Reviews culled from [...]
WSJ reports: :: Sun is announcing plans to offer cable operators and other telecommunications companies new hardware and software for delivering streams of video. Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim designed the system, which is being unveiled at the Tribeca Film Festival today in New York. The Sun Streaming System, as the company calls it, includes the [...]
We have been discussing the online travel industry and have covered Yahoo! Travel and TripAdvisor from a Web 3.0 perspective earlier. Here we will take a look at Travelocity’s offering. Travelocity, launched in 1996 is an online travel agency. It is owned by Sabre Holdings. According to Nielsen//NetRatings, Travelocity is ranked number two among the [...]
We have concluded in previous posts that the iPhone is positioned, long term, against laptops, not phones, and its key strategic advantage is the presence of the full scale Mac OS on it. So what is Motorola’s situation against this backdrop? Like other top handset vendors, Motorola’s cellular handset business is thriving around the world, [...]
Wize is a relatively new entrant to the product research field, and unlike its competitor Become, does not offer an integrated search experience whereby you can do your product research as well as comparison shopping for price within the same environement. I gave this feedback to Tom, and he agrees, that the fragmented user experience [...]
We have been discussing about the online travel industry and have covered Yahoo! Travel from a Web 3.0 perspective earlier. Here we take a look at TripAdvisor’s offering. TripAdvisor was founded in February 2000 and is among the world’s largest online travel communities with over 20 million unique monthly visitors and approximately 5 million registered [...]
I wrote in an earlier piece, that the iPhone is most likely to be positioned against laptops, as a convergence device that eliminates the need to have to carry around multiple devices. Frank Levinson had talked about the iPhone as a convergence device as well, a few months back. Let’s take a look at the [...]
