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Has Martech Made Things Too Complicated?
The arrival of martech was heralded as the next stage of marketing. These platforms enabled marketers to gather endless reams […]
Top 10 Best Website Trends of 2018
Every year, website design and user interface change slightly; 2018 is no different, with trends emerging in design, typography, and […]
How to Delete Yourself From the Internet
You may think your internet usage is completely private, but any time you access a website, sign up for an […]
Web News: China’s Internet Boom, Yahoo Panama Launched, Google Integration, Digg Anti-Gaming
These summary posts are designed to be a ‘quick fix’ of the top Web news, for
those people who don’t have time to read the full articles but who want to stay
informed.
– Internet
Boom in China Is Built on Virtual Fun; NY Times continues the western
fascination with all things China. This article profiles Tencent and their
dominant mobile…
Does Big Data Affect Our Daily E-Commerce Experience?
There’s no getting around it: the way marketers and retailers harness the power of big data can be a little […]
Feed Grazers and disposable RSS feeds
Interesting notion of “feed grazing” from James Corbett and Danny Ayers. James actually came up with the concept – this explanation is from a comment he left on Danny’s blog:
“IÄôm actually coming to the conclusion that the whole subscriptions mindset is a problem and that in future weÄôll ÄògrazeÄô for the most part instead of…
Participatory Design: What It Is and Why You Should Be Using It
Participatory design is a method to bring customers into the design process through a collaborative approach. In web design, consumers […]
Discover Missteps in Your UX Design
UX design – the process of creating a website that is intuitive to the user – is ongoing and must […]
Coming to Terms – Why Terms of Use are Critical for Your Company
Every time you’ve installed a piece of commercial software, you’ve invariably been presented with what must have appeared to be […]
Why Your Business Needs Copyrights
Savvy business owners understand the importance of intellectual property (IP) to their business’ success and most can name patents, trademarks, and […]
Trademark Protection for Startups
As a startup one of your most important assets is your brand and that brand is usually embodied in your […]
How to File an International Trademark When You’re Ready to Take Your Business Global
Congratulations on eyeing the international market for your business growth. We are living in an age of globalization and more […]
Web Designing in the Age of IoT
When British technologist Kevin Ashton coined the term “Internet of Things” in 1999, little did he knew that this term […]
Latest Cutting-Edge Trends Followed in Web Design
In the recent years in the digital medium, the latest cutting-edge trends in web design has seen far more shifts […]
Twitter’s Open Platform Advantage
This week on Read/WriteTalk I had the opportunity to talk to Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter. One of the more interesting topics in the podcast was the open platform that Twitter has developed. We also discussed how the team came up with the idea for Twitter, different catalysts over the past year for user growth, and even how they came up with…
How Hiring the Right Video Production Company Can Make All the Difference
Video marketing is here to stay. It’s a $135 billion industry in the U.S. alone, and consumers are increasingly expecting […]
Nanowrimo Day 15 – plus some thoughts on categories and topics
27,563 words. Here’s the latest (ch. 34 onwards). I’m hoping to reach the 30,000 mark by end of tomorrow. That will give me a nice round figure to aim for of 10,000 words per week for the final two weeks. I’m enjoying having two storylines intertwining now. On the one hand, Declan Atomz is now beginning to understand the alien world. It’ll be…
How Digital Marketplaces Will (Again) Redefine Commerce and Experience
Over the past 20-plus years, digital marketplaces have fundamentally transformed commerce and consumer expectations around the world. But although names […]
5 Ways to Improve Conversion Rates for Your Landing Pages
Many own or manage a small to mid-sized business website (SMB). These websites are showcasing your products or services and […]
Daydreaming of browser/editors
Don Park reckons that weblogs and websites will converge within the next 2 years time: “People [will] take it for granted that webpages can be edited using their browser. People will also take it for granted that any webpages can be subscribed to with a single-click. Web browsers will be changed to support all this and more like highlighting of…
Smart Clients vs Browsers
Robert Scoble: “…at Microsoft we call Internet apps that aren’t in the browser ‘Smart Clients'”. The web browser is at a crossroads. Microsoft announced in 2003 that it would not release any further “standalone” versions of Internet Explorer – instead it will be embedded in the Operating System (codenamed Longhorn). But along…
John Robb leaves Userland
News today that Userland CEO John Robb has left the company. Dave Winer says about Userland’s future direction: “We’re going to try to do something fun, unique, and powerful with UserLand’s position in the weblog and content tools market, and we’re going to try to include the community in the business, i.e. people will make money…
More on weblog topics
Couple of interesting comments to my last post. Harvey Kirkpatrick from itopik wrote: “I would argue that all the efforts are complementary and can be automated by some and humanified by others. We are choosing to humanify a bit the process hoping to be a bit more intelligent in our organization as Yahoo was in the beginning. Seeing linkages…
Organizing weblogs by topic
My post in response to Clay Shirky’s article on Corante generated some interesting discussion. The time is ripe to discuss weblog topics, thanks to innovative new tools such as k-collector, Phillip Pearson’s Topic Exchange, and itopik. I want to address a few points about organizing weblog posts by topic. 1) I still believe…
Weblogs should be topic-first, not author-first
Clay Shirky (via Ross Mayfield): “The weblog world has taken the 4 elements of organization from mailing lists and usenet — overall topic, time of post, post title, author — and rearranged them in order of importance as author, time, and title, dispensing with topics altogether.” This is something that makes me a little queezy about weblogs. If…
CM for the masses
Some quotes on the theme of content management (CM)… Gerry McGovern: “The Web may have been the almost exclusive domain of techies. Today, it is increasingly the domain of communicators.” Bill Gates: “Whether it’s handling a classified ad or handling editorials, the authoring tools for these things no longer require an IT department to be…
Supporting the two-way web (and Dave too)
I’ve been following all the hullaballoo about the Echo Project. Unfortunately there’s been more flaming than at a dragons convention. But one of the few calm voices amongst all the hot air is Jon Udell, who today wrote a brilliant essay that got right to the heart of what RSS means. Jon reminded us that technologies…
Blogroll funk
One thing that is definitely “funky” is the blogroll in Radio Userland. I updated my blogroll.opml file last night but – no matter what trickery I do – the changes won’t publish. That is why my external links look a bit odd right now. John Robb recently announced that Radio will soon release a new version, which is exciting news…
RSS and Echo
Jon Udell on RSS: “It’s about a new way of communicating, one that’s defined by personal publishing and subscribing, and that empowers writers and readers as never before.” Amen to that, brother. People are trying to change RSS into something called Echo. If you want to know why, then I recommend you check out Jon Udell’s…
C List blogger checks his stats
I admit it. I regularly check my stats at Technorati and Blogshares, plus I do some search engine checks now and then. Everyone does it. I have to say I’m not exactly setting the world on fire in terms of popularity. I’m probably a ‘C List’ blogger at most 🙂 But I am noticing my Google popularity is increasing for the phrase “Read/Write Web…
Internet Explorer.NET
In my recent articles I’ve explored the concept of the Universal Canvas, a term made popular by Microsoft when it launched .NET in 2000. But things just got interesting, with the news that Microsoft will phase out its Internet Explorer browser as a standalone product. Internet Explorer will be integrated it…
Learn by writing
Mark Pilgrim: “I take in a lot of raw data, synthesize it, and spit it back out in ways that many people can understand.” Mark Pilgrim and Neil Deakin are two very smart web developers, but more importantly they both have the ability to document complex web technology in laymans language – so that wannabes can learn it…
Save the Web
Dave Winer posts a link to a DaveNet from 2 years ago: “If it were not possible to read my words without annotation, we’d have to invent a medium that allowed that. But in 2001 we already have such a medium, it’s called the Web. We have tools and servers and all kinds of runtimes on all kinds of operating systems. We don’t need or want…
Apple and the Universal Canvas
Micah Alpern asked via my Comments form: “Wasn’t this term [universal canvas] first popularized by Apple with their failed OpenDoc program?” Only one way to find out and that’s pay a visit to Google. I found a definition of OpenDoc, but I didn’t see anything that had OpenDoc and Universal Canvas in the same sentence. Anyone know of a…
The Universal Canvas System
Last night I wrote about the Universal Canvas. Today in my RSS newsreader, what should appear but a great post from Steve Gillmor on the same topic. Of course being a pro, Steve made his point way better than me. Microsoft has all the pieces, says Steve, to “create a browser-hosted read-write tool for sharing and routing information.” But the…
Scobleized
I’ve been Scobleized. Now I really am part of the blogosphere…yay 🙂
Universal Canvas – In the Beginning…
I’ve become very interested in the “Universal Canvas”, a term popularized by Microsoft and subsequently analyzed by Jon Udell. First of all, here are two definitions of the Universal Canvas: a) From a Microsoft White Paper dated June 2000, entitled Microsoft .NET: Realizing the Next Generation Internet: “The universal canvas builds upon XML…
Adaptability
Asterisk: “…the one thing every Web professional needs, regardless of their main job function, be that IA, Design, Development, what-have-you is adaptability. You know, the ability to wing it.” In New Zealand we have a similar concept called No. 8 Wire mentality, or “kiwi ingenuity” – based on the architypal New Zealand farmer…
Triangulation
RWW Word of the Day: triangulation Dave Winer (via Denise Howell’s weblog): “…Question about journalism always having to be the sophisticated big stuff? Dave says know (sic), importance of triangulation, getting news on an event from many sources.”