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- The Accelerator Conundrum
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Gen Y & Edutainment
I wrote a piece called Affluenza about 2 years back, discussing the spending habits of Generation Y, and the opportunity that might present for Edutainment products. Generation Y has since evolved to become a very important marketing target, especially because they are hugely reachable. Gen Y is the largest generation in U.S. history. There are
Web 3.0 & Photo Sharing: Synthesis
Photo sharing is one of the top segments online and the top 10 photo sharing sites in the US draws as many as 50 million users every month. According to Hitwise, 4.9% of all Internet traffic went to the top 20 social networking sites like YouTube, MySpace, Photobucket, Flickr and Facebook, making photo sharing one
Web 3.0 and Flickr
Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield of Ludicorp, a Vancouver, British Columbia-based Company launched Flickr in February 2004. Flickr is a photo-sharing site, which allows users to search, upload, create photo albums and share them with community members. Flickr has 17 million unique monthly visitors. The company was taken over by Yahoo in March 2005. Flickr
Web 3.0 & Photo Sharing: Overview
Photo sharing is one of the top segments and in the US the top 10 photo sharing sites draws around 50 million visitors each month. In this series, we will evaluate the category against the web 3.0 framework. Photo sharing is gaining in popularity fueled by its online community features, which allow millions of users
Web 3.0 and Expedia
We have been discussing the online travel industry and have covered Yahoo! Travel, TripAdvisor, Travelocity and Orbitz from a Web 3.0 perspective earlier. Here we will take a look at Expedia’s offering. Expedia is the largest online travel content company, headquartered in Bellevue, WA. The Company is the third largest travel company in the US,
Active Customer Engagement (ACE)
About 7 years ago, Mark Perry at NEA got me involved with a company that was then called CGTime, later renamed Cariocas. The Founder was a Stanford Game theorist called Yoav Shoham. He had created a collection of game theory based “games” for Active Customer Engagement (ACE). The company was too early, not very well
Expertise Location (Part 2)
[Part 1] We’re talking with Charles Armstrong. One of the reasons I have chosen this topic is that I believe, it is one of the best applications for the enterprise to leverage web 2.0 principles. Charles Armstrong is Founder & CEO of Trampoline Systems. An ethnographer turned technology entrepreneur, Charles studied Social & Political Science
Expertise Location (Part 1)
I wrote a piece back in January called IBM’s Entry Into Social Networking, where I discussed the potential for applying web 2.0 techniques on the enterprise. Subsequently, I have written extensively about Enterprise 3.0 and the Extended Enterprise trends. A company from England had contacted me after reading the IBM piece. This company, Trampoline Systems,
