Archive for the 'Trends & Stats' Category

Asia Internet Usage Statistics

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

Here is some info on internet usage stats in Asia:
 
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Web 3.0 Defined

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Web 1.0: Centralised Them
Web 2.0: Distributed Us
Web 3.0: Decentralised Me
Web 3.0 must be about me! It’s about me when I don’t want to participate in the world. It’s about me when I want to have more control of my environment particularly who I let in. When my attention is stretched who/what do I pay attention […]

Value of Yahoo Users

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

Microsoft’s bid of $45 Billion USD for Yahoo places a value on each of Yahoo’s 37.5 Million users at $1,200 each.
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15 Companies That Will Change The World

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Blinkx
CEO: Suranga Chandratillake
Disruption: Web video search and ad insertion
Disrupted: Search engines and the TV ad business
The fastest growing segment of Internet advertising is video, and Blinkx’s video search engine aims to capitalize on the trend. Blinkx indexes more than 14 million hours of video available on the Web, using software that turns speech into text […]

On Demand Advertising Market Set to Boom

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

The market for video-on-demand (VOD) advertising is raring to go. The technology is there, and the interest is definitely there, but there are several crucial stepping stones cable operators have yet to cross – namely negotiating business models and receiving premium VOD content.
 
Everyone in the value chain from advertisers and ad agencies to networks and […]

2008 All About Live Video

Monday, December 31st, 2007

If Youtube and recorded video was all the buzz in 2007, I think live video will be all the buzz in 2008. http://www.ustream.tv/ is already positioning themselves as the Youtube for live TV.
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Redbull Ingredients

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

Wired magazine’s dissection of Redbull. I still think $2 a can is way overpriced. It’s only .25 cents in Thailand, although that’s where it’s made… Now maybe there’s an export play. Glucose
Like most popular soft drinks, Red Bull is largely sugar water. But don’t count on its glucose to “give you wings,” as the ad says. Multiple studies have debunked the […]

The Web Won the Platform Wars

Friday, October 19th, 2007

Jeff Huber, Googles VP of Engineering, in a recent talk about Google Gadgets says that the platform wars are over, the winner has already emerged… it’s the Web itself.
 
What we see is applications fundamentally changing. Just like the model for content changed from monolithic sites, now applications are going to be feeds and containers. A […]