Swivel, previewed on TechCrunch, looks to be the coolest new web service idea since Mechanical Turk. This is one of those rare ideas that illicit a reaction not of “oh, neat” but rather “if I was half as smart as I like to think, I would’ve thought of that.”
Tag Archives: web
Seppuku 2.0
September 25, 2006 – 9:04 pm
Sprout Commerce has figured out how to commit suicide in the Web 2.0 ecosystem.
Immediately after Pete Cashmore’s glowing review in April I began using MyPickList to manage my wishlists, rather than using the “buy” tag in del.icio.us as I had before (and limiting myself to items that have records on Amazon.com is so Web 1.0).
Imagine […]
Meat-based web services
August 25, 2006 – 3:25 pm
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is one of the most interesting new business models this year. The concept of a task-completion marketplace is not too innovative, but their model of qualifications and exposure of web services certainly piques my interest. Only time will tell if they can fill their chessboard with enough Schlumbergers to keep […]
ad:tech Monday wrap-up
July 24, 2006 – 5:41 pm
Henry Copeland (BlogAds) observation: “staid Midwestern brands” seem to have an easier time adopting podcasts than blogging… it’s easier to broadcast than dialogue. I agree, except I don’t think this is a uniquely Midwestern experience.
Jared Spool was the only presenter that knows how to present.
Susan Chiu from Octanti reminds me of the grad students […]
Disruption
July 24, 2006 – 1:52 pm
Avenue A | Razorfish hosted a lunch panel (“Disruptive Technology for Fun and Profit”) with some of their own big brains and a Google rep to discuss all the “new” stuff, especially social media. Might not have had much for me to learn, but it was refreshing to finally hear from someone who gets […]
ad:tech Chicago
July 24, 2006 – 12:08 pm
So, here I am at ad:tech. We came in late to the keynote, but got to watch the second half of a dry, read-from-notes tour of one agency’s “multicultural” promotions. It was littered with meaningless results numbers, and punctuated with a slide touting the success a major campaign that primarily cited impressions.
Aren’t impressions […]
Going plazes
July 4, 2006 – 9:43 am
Plazes has promoted their new version, essentially going from 1.0beta to 2.0beta. It’s very “Web 2.0” in design (except the corners are sharp) and it doesn’t look like anything has changed from the private pre-beta test. The new interface is much easier to understand, with simplified user and place profiles.
microschema
May 31, 2006 – 7:53 pm
Microformat schema are sorely needed. Parsing for microformats presently feels…clunky.
PersonCode
May 25, 2006 – 5:11 pm
A few years ago I was musing about the need to “tag” online resources with personal identifiers more secure than email addresses and less exclusive than URLs, and thought it might be nice to encourage the use of mailto: URI hashes as in the FOAF spec as “secure enough” personal identifiers. “foaf:mbox_sha1sum” doesn’t exactly […]