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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 […]
CSS conversion of my Radio weblog
I’ve done a re-design of my Radio weblog, using CSS. Look ma, no tables! Yes, it’s now a tableless design. I’m doing my bit for the web standards cause, although I haven’t yet achieved 100% XHTML validation. For my re-design I used a CSS Zen Garden design by Michael Landis, who kindly gave me permission to use it. I figured the best way to get…
11 Weblog Pieces
Forgive me, it’s the end of the day and I don’t want to write my usual lengthy blog post. So I thought I’d do the blogging equivalent of “piano pieces”, which in this case is a collection of various links and quotes that have caught my eye recently: Prelude No. 15 in D flat Op. 28 “Prior Art” (Ray Ozzie): “In 1993 or thereabouts, we saw the…
Ted Nelson’s two-way links
Matt Webb blogged the Hypertext03 conference and the resulting notes are a good scan. Thank goodness for people like Matt who blog conferences, because those of us who live on the other side of the world don’t get to go to these flash harry conferences *sulk*. Matt’s notes on Ted Nelson’s speech were especially interesting. Ted Nelson is a legend…
Rock n roll
On a less serious note than my previous post, it also occured to me that bloggers are like rock n roll bands. The best bands explore a different theme each album, just like the best bloggers (imho) write on an ever-changing series of themes. My favourite band The Velvet Underground released 4 studio albums that were each different in style and…
New School Blogroll example
As per my previous post, I’ve updated my blogroll to include topics and conversations. I just manually updated my blogroll OPML file, but I envisage a web frontend for this in future – kinda like Phil Pearson’s web form for his Feed Combiner. A bit more about the two new sections in my blogroll. The Topics section is made up of links to K-Collector…
Extending blogrolls
Don also mentioned auto-population of blogrolls, which is something that Phil Pearson has been experimenting with and I’ve been commenting on. My view is that the “blogroll” can be extended to incorporate not only links to weblogs (people), but links to topics and conversations (weblog comments). Later on you could add other chunks of microcontent…
Google PageRank navel-gazing
A few days ago John Robb complained about his Google PageRank being zero after he moved to his new domain. I was in the same situation, but this morning I noticed my weblog has a new Google PageRank of 5/10. I see John Robb’s PageRank is back too (6/10). Another new blogger who had 0/10 PageRank up till today is Adam Bosworth (a former…
Political blogging
Dave Winer, on political campaign blogging: “The first candidate that helps voters publish their own stories and ideas and drive the campaign is the one who really captures the energy of the Web.” I agree, the essence of the Two-Way Web is that everyone has the right to publish. That could almost be “the lost amendment” of the…
Happy birthday Uncle Elvis and me
Today, August 25, is Elvis Costello’s birthday. It’s also my birthday 🙂 Co-incidentally, we also share the same surname. Elvis Costello’s real name is Declan MacManus. How cool is that! That’s why I affectionately refer to him as Uncle Elvis. Hey, maybe I’m the Elvis Costello of Weblogging… only less cruel 🙂 No, better to be my own…
Grade School Report for my weblog
Actually in New Zealand, we don’t have “grade schools” (they’re called Primary and Secondary schools here). But I wanted to subtly reference Jon Udell’s influential article called “Grade School CMS”. i.e. I’m just being a smart ass 🙂 Things I want to do with my weblog: 1. Contribute formal articles on the subject of the Two-Way Web. I’m still…
Browser-based RSS Aggregators
A little while ago I wrote on the topic of “Smart Clients”, a Microsoft catchphrase for non-browser-based web applications. In my article I mentioned an interesting browser-based RSS News Aggregator being built by Lucmo. Today I read the following post in the Lucmo weblog: “The Read/Write Web blog writes that Lucmo is in “beta” — that’s not…
The Whiteness of the Whale – the Semantic Web
Whenever I read about the Semantic Web, I am reminded of Herman Melville’s classic novel Moby Dick. One of my favourite chapters of Moby Dick is chapter 42: The Whiteness of the Whale. Here’s an excerpt: “Aside from those more obvious considerations touching Moby Dick, which could not but occasionally awaken in any man’s soul some alarm, there was…
Trackback enabled
Excellent, I now have Radio Userland’s Trackback enabled. There have been some interesting suggestions for other new Radio features too, so hopefully some of those ideas will get implemented soon. I especially like the idea of modular templates, suggested by John Robb.
In XML did Kubla Khan – XML as Literature
Dave Winer says there are 2 ways to approach XML: “…people who think of XML as a programming space, and people who think of it as a literary space.” The first group “love XML for its technical intricacy”. The literary people however “use XML because it is a convenient way to move info between apps”. XML-as-literature is a romantic notion. While…
My new domain name
I have moved to a new domain name. Please update your records: New weblog address: http://www.readwriteweb.com New RSS feed: http://www.readwriteweb.com/rss.xml ps the reason I am re-posting this, and my XML as Literature story below, is that my PC crashed tonight and I lost some of my recent posts. Not to mention MS Outlook data and other…
Web of Ideas II
Lawrence Lessig on US Presidential candidate Howard Dean’s blogging efforts: “Neutrality aside, though, Governor Dean has earned a special respect. Of course there are issues on which I would disagree with anyone. But I have been struck in reading these posts, and the passion they inspired. They revive a feeling I had as a kid ó that ideas could…
The Web is no Model T
Robert Scoble has written a couple of posts recently about Microsoft products being a platform: 1. Robert quoting Kevin Warbach: “The Internet companies that have thrived while AOL faltered — Microsoft, Amazon.com, eBay, Google — have two things in commons. They are deeply technology-driven, but they see technology not as an end in itself but as…
Web of Ideas
A lot of people are getting pretty excited about “social software”. Bloggers like Joi Ito and Marc Canter are writing with gusto about social software. I’m hearing lots of trendy new acronyms and phrases – FOAF, MetaBlogs, “reputation systems”, “web of trust”, “moblogging”, “micro-content”, etc etc. It’s all getting to be a blur. But…
Simplicity and extensibility
Tim O’Reilly writes in Dan Gillmor’s comments: “Simplicity and extensibility should not be orthogonal. And any technology that sets them up as opposed, instead of complements, has clearly done something wrong.” Note: orthogonal means “independent or well separated”. Tim O’Reilly is talking about RSS2.0 (simple) and RSS1.0…
The Ants and the Bees
I’m not usually one to quote long passages of other people’s writing, but I can’t resist quoting Scoble’s post today about ants. In Robert’s vision, the ants represent Microsoft employees and the bees are third-party developers like Marc Canter. I love it when people use literary devices, such as metaphor, in a technical or…