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[cross post to abstract curiousity] I relish the fact that we are starting to see the age of more packaged debates about what is really happening in the web space and the path being carved out for new innovation. A shining example of this is the 2 well written pieces by Tim O'Reilly (see MicroHoo: corporate penis envy? ) and Michael Arrington ( The Importance Of A Competitive Search Market ). Both have presented well articulated positions and again both provide levels of detail and insight that is simply amazing. If either existed without the other, I believe their individual level of detail and thought would convince you to buy into their view. To give my own distillation of the these views, I would summarise in the following way right now: Tim O'Reilly - "So let's assume that Google has won at search, or close enough to make no difference. Is Microsoft better off trying to reimplement cat and ls, or trying to figure out what's still missing from the Internet Operating System? While they are locked in penis envy, all the really cute girls are going out with startups :-)" Michael Arrington - "Search is important because it is the starting point for most commercial intentions on the Internet. As I wrote earlier this week , 68% of online purchases begin at a search engine or shopping comparison site. That drives revenue, and a lot of it. About 40%, or $16 billion, of the $40 billion collected in online advertising comes from search. And 80% of that $16 billion comes from commerce related searches." Personally and very much my view right on things is that both views are right but there are missing nuances as we have yet to see where the "invisible hand" mixes with flaws in human nature. what do I mean my this? Drawing from sources/comments within both pieces let me add my own thoughts: People left Altavista, 'cause relevance was just so poor and Google provided a ROI to UX that largely remains today- through relevance and simplicity the monetization of Google was a moment of clarity when the realisation appeared that within a stream of gestures, lies a foundational subset that forms the basis of a commercial/sales pipeline/"intent to purchase". The attach rates, low barriers to entry, ROI and level of efficiencies are a event the industry have not seen in modern times before. Google has you attention at key monetization moments but this is only a part of the stream of attention. The best Google can do right now is be better than the rest, and as such its 60% market Read More...
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[found via a whole lot of sources I guess, Techmeme , Slashdot , and so on, original at link ] While I guess it is fair to say I would not be known for generally having a strong focus in the area of UI/Page side of things (oppps hope the current crew is not watching ;) ). I found this article on the Average Web page size tripling on the top 1000 Web sites to be very interesting, as I have in the past spent quite a bit of time in this space in the distance past (or it feels like the distance past now :) ) The report touches a lot of interesting points about Web2.0, trends in Web pages and all of it is good stuff, but I think it compressed a lot of important aspects that need to be highlighted - that perhaps of all places is best highlighted by a post on valleywag, "Ignoring customers still using modems is officially all the rage. Usability and accessibility guru Jakob Nielsen to shake fist at you all." I really like the fact that a report like this has appeared, as I think it highlights very succinctly the technical/transmission realities of how Web2.0/et.al. is having on end user experiences both in a positive and negative sense. To even emphasise this point, I believe that in the valley a lot of companies like Yahoo, are getting folks to focus on the "transmission" aspects of a UI/UX and in the case of Yahoo have led to the birth of Y!Slow etc... There is some video's on the Yahoo! developer network from the Director responsible for this team, sorry I don't have a link :( Off the top of my head, I reckon what would have been nice to have in the report would have been the following: use of sub domains the issue of location and speed of light, i.e. the value proposition of a Global CDN HTTP protocol versions, pipelining, browser versions/differences and so on... CSS and JavaScript placement in HTML etc.... and many of the recommendations that get highlighted from Y!Slow as I recall. (plus I would have a few, which I will mention below and in a follow up post) I guess overall, one of my initial thoughts and critiques of the article is that it could have given some link love to the all too few links, presentations and tools that help alleviate many of the concerns the article raises about the "un-optimised" transmission costs of an ever increasing number of embedded objects in a Web page that ultimately better than we have in the past (on average). Yeah I could link to YSlow, but that would not be no fun :) YSlow is the best and true place to start, as what I Read More...
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Since I have been kicking the tires on some of the new social networks over the last while, I have always wondered how much hassle would be it to delete an account and all associated data While I have yet to try this with the 6 or so sites I am on, I found this blog post entitled " 2504 steps to closing your Facebook account " quite interesting. Ouch!! Not that easy on Facebook I guess ;) Sounds like a Roach Motel to me? On a Open Platform as well!! Oh my! And is it not Facebook that prides themselves on repeatly active user base? Something like 50% or so . Is this not going to their numbers in the long term? I wonder what the rest are like? Anyone got any tales of woes to tell? I suspect all of the major players are the same to some degree? /P For more information, go to http://www.paulfallon.com . Read More...
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Thanks to MS Siegler for the Pownce invite. So now I have 6 invites to pass on. If folks are interested, its first come, first serve, just leave a message in the comments below and I will invite you. /Paul For more information, go to http://www.paulfallon.com . Read More...
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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) has the term "Portal" dropped for a reason. Unfortunately, just like everything else, we have to carry our legacy along and that means that customers today still view MOSS as a portal product play. While I would not disagree with that, portal functionality is but one of the collaborative features that comes along with MOSS. I usually encourage people to view SharePoint as a platform . An application development platform to enable and extend collaborative, unified communicative, interative and intuitive solutions. Because SharePoint comes with rather rich features and functionalities out-of-the-box (ootb) and because the underlying platform is on Microsoft .NET 2.0, customizing and extending SharePoint is easy. One of the things that people tend to look past in SharePoint, besides its inherent features and functionalities such as Search, Document Management, Personalization, etc are some of the elements of Social Computing that comes with it or that can be extendede with it. Of course, there are the blogs, wikis features that are out-of-the-box. I see many compare with the blogs or wikis-specific application engines out there and argue that MOSS is rather short at times. Again, I point to the fact that MOSS is an application platform. It is made to reach its potential throught customization. While this can be done manually, there are many many many 3rd party best-of-breed solutions out there on top of SharePoint today that can really transform SharePoint. I mean, who really would know SharePoint is powering sites like this and this ? These solutions can be found commercially the many Microsoft partners out there as well as via the communities such as Codeplex , SourceForge.NET , and other online communities such as here , here and here , just to name a few. To further enhance its social computing features, you can just simply just use a few lines of very simple AJAX scripts on ASP.NET 2.0 to transform SharePoint to enable cross-community collaboration such as with del.icio.us , flickr , digg , snap , soapbox , etc I recently came across a request to be able to extend the ootb RSS Viewer Web Part to refresh itself (without any entire page reloading) after a configured period of time. This is so that the users would be able to see an updated view of the latest breaking news by subscribing to the RSS feeds of their favourite news service providers without pressing the Refresh F5 button many times. It took me exactly 15 Read More...
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In a recent IEEE Spectrum articule, Bob Briscoe, Andrew Odlyzko, and Benjamin Tilly proposed that Metcalfe's Law is wrong, see this IEEE article for details. Its an interesting read, but despite the articulate argument I think of MySpace, Google, YouTube, Ebay et. al. and how the hitting the tipping point of critical mass has led to the explosive growth we see with this sites and this is through the network effects as I see it. Anyways, o ver here you can hear Metacalf’s respone to the article as he explains the history of the 25 year old law and how it can be applied to todays social networks and network effects. /Paul For more information, go to http://www.paulfallon.com . Read More...
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Talk about timing? I was just wondering where MS was going (in relation to the RSS/Syndication toolkit/platform/market) and whether they would be building a “platform” (aka a toolkit) and when (i.e. sooner the better in my view, aka NOW!!)……. and then ….. I see that Niall Kennedy is to leave MS? No comment, just walking away from the keyboard and silently shaking my head. I honestly thought that MS was starting to get it? Perhaps in 18–24 months or so!!! when the world has changed again? any remember SOAP? <jesturing and waving hands at MS> All I want is a “Web2.0 toolkit” folks? Not a “platform”!! I’m not alone and we have needs! and we want them now!! </jesturing and waving hands at MS> /Paul ps btw, I know about the WCF RSS toolkit, but thats falls very short of the mark in my view! (Sorry to the folks involved) For more information, go to http://www.paulfallon.com . Read More...
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Old news I know, but I just had to comment on Google moving into the Adult search arena . Maybe its just me, being a ex-Web1.0’er, but for me it again shows how the money is where the base instincts lie. One of the biggest drivers of Web tech stacks is the porn industry after all!! and Sex sells!! Maybe this marks the birth of Porn 2.0 /Paul For more information, go to http://www.paulfallon.com . Read More...
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via Chris Anderson’s blog, the long tail The Audience is Up to Something . and Mainstream Media Meltdown III /Paul > For more information, go to http://www.paulfallon.com . Read More...
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