From Newsletters old and new
>Integrate Online to Print - Include a meaninful and measurable URL>Some Websites:-(Great Combo) The coke side of life - Delightfully creative. Coke with UCG >>Related links- The Fun Corp Site >> Catching on the Health and Wellness Wave (The Beverage Institute) >>Neat Campaign with it to (Every Drop Counts)-(Looks) Happy Scents - Clinique ties up with Sony CONNECT(US only)for www.getyourhappy.com (Nice flash work esp for small community initiatives). Code redemption against free music CD!>>Interactive quizes to identify choices//to scientifically predict best fits is in.
-(Functionality) Too much information cramped in a user friendly format -
www.HunterDouglas.com
Charan kee Inspiration
I promise to note down all that I have learned on all days I gym....Labels: brb
Web 2.0 is Tim O'Reilly's dandruff....
And more such redefined paradigms in this classic Register
article.
"Web 2.0 is made of ... mutual masturbation
Everything I've seen from the Web 2.0 camp has pretty much indicated it will only appeal to people who want to spend all day diddling around with "interactive" websites to find inaccurate information created by other ill-informed people who also want to spend all day diddling around with "interactive" websites.
Some will no doubt argue that Web 2.0 being built on mutual masturbation is an advance over Web 1.0 (built mostly on solo masturbation). But have you seen who's on the other end? They really should keep their hands to themselves"
Whats Up
->
Alan Meckler - Chairman & CEO of
JupiterMedia. Last year they hived off the Search Engine Strategies trade shows and Clickz network of sites to
Incisive Media, to concentrate on its images business!
-> Netscape & DIGG sweating it out
here.
Jason Calanis of Netscape vs Kevin Rose of Digg.
->Not too far behind - TechCrunch's
Mike Arrington vs 'Does IT Matter' author
Nick Carr
Who's Who
10 people who don't matter in 200610 people who don't matter in 2006 -expectedly Steve Balmer makes the list (with the emergence of
Microsoft's new brain - Read
Internet Services Disruption memo for a snapshot in to why). Others include
Jonathan Schwartz (President & CEO SUN Microsystem \\ Chairman & CO - Founder : Scott McNealy) and Comander Taco (
Slashdot's Rob Malda - Can't compete with 2.0 flagbearers like
DIGG), First Gentelman of Linux - Linus Torvald and
Facebook's Mike Zuckerberg for overvaluation and staying independent in the face of New Corp's MySpace which went for $580 million and is now web's second most popular website)
A quick GK sheet on people and powers:
->
Steve Jobs - CEO, Apple
-> Ray Ozzie - CTO, MS
->
Marc Benioff - Fuonder and CEO, Salesforce.com; An ex Oracle guy
->
Brian McAndrews - CEO,
aQuantative (owner of A/Razorfish and Atlas)
-> Nick Denton - Publishers, Gawker Media
Turn of events
I'm back to my blog - but this time as a scratchpad...
First there was RSS...
I'm perfectly nuts about RSS feeds. I think I haven't used anything more convenient and useful too. Probably the same way I felt about Google. Both google and bloglines (the only feedreader I use) have neat interfaces, concentrated information with 100% eyeviews - the perfect place to put ads.
Seat-belts on!
The Space Elevator – I located a first bit about it on Silicon Beat tho it has apparently been around for almost 2 years and guess who were busy brandying the idea back then! More details about it on the Liftport site – The group is so dead serious about making it happen that they even got a countdown to the lift date April 12, 2018.Anyways, amidst all the rumors of a secretive demonstration by the Liftport guys and Foresight Nanotech Institute, NASA and nonprofit Spaceward Foundation is hosting a space elevator contest – Tether Challenge. Points will be given for the each climb of the payload according to payload mass x average velocity of the climb. Incidentally the results are in.
While Google gets Cerf, MS tries ESR
Right! Right! By now it’s a household news that Google’s hired 62 year young Vint Cerf. Sidharth has dug up an interesting piece on that. But lesser known probably is the bit about Microsoft trying to hire one of the 3 most influential people of the Open Source Movement – Eric S Raymond (Along with
Richard M Stallman &
Linus Torvalds)
. He obviously turns it down as politely as he could - “On the day *I* go to work for Microsoft, faint oinking sounds will be heard from far overhead, the moon will not merely turn blue but develop polkadots, and hell will freeze over so solid the brimstone will go superconductive.”
Google - A House of Cards?
So says Ballmer. He threw a chair to prove his point too!But some Google skeptics (though much fewer in numbers than MS bashers) tend not to disagree as we can read in the comments on John Battelle’s post.Though it is unanimously agreed that Google will have to come up with a parallel product range to hit MS where it really really hurts! Basically – an OS! (neat fakes can already be seen).
