Posts Tagged with ‘services’

Iceberg - A Race Car Innovation Devoured By PR
Back in July I tested a fascinating enterprise business solution called Iceberg on Demand. Iceberg made a bold claim back then that said it would declare war on software. Based on my evaluation then and new feedback from Wayne Byrne, head of the development, I see now a superb innovation ready to come out of beta into the market under full power.
Iceberg Is Innovation Without the Hype
Byrne and his team [...]

The last 365.2425 days - give or take - have comprised a pretty remarkable period of time. Everything in the tech space has appeared supercharged since that day of new beginnings past. Whether you look at advancements made in root technologies that have enabled the transmission of higher and higher quality media over the Web, or more singular accomplishments like new utilitarian services among the likes of office software built both for local and remote use and backup options that [...]

The holiday season is upon us, so I thought it appropriate to review a very effective and cool service called Tripit . Tripit it is not a brand new site, but it has added some great new features that can make trip planning drop dead easy.
Essentially, all anyone has to do is forward their travel confirmation emails to Tripit and the system automatically builds a master itinerary for the user. Everything the traveler needs is essentially provided for them [...]

Spigit is a new social community and game that aims to provide a network of support for start-ups and their founders. It is being marketed as a "virtual game" that can simulate the real-life process of starting and building a startup service on the web.
According to the site, the community "provides professionals the ability to showcase new ideas and innovations and in the process build their professional network… through our proprietary simulation they can build and refine an idea, [...]

One clear lesson from the dot-com era was about survival of the fittest; it didn’t matter how revolutionary the mutation, without the ability to survive, it became at best a footnote in history. Conversely, the ability to survive often brings unwanted baggage in the form of odd vestigial standards, as exemplified by the httpmail adopted by Hotmail when the rest of the email world runs either POP or IMAP. Workarounds do exist, from 3rd parties; yet the sheer size of [...]

Transaction or subscription based models don’t have to be services targeting businesses. Consumers can and will pay for web services that meet their needs. A prime example is TheFamilyPost – a web service that gives families the option of storing photos and videos, creating an online scrapbook or presentation, a family website and chatroom, and more.
Sure, there are plenty of services online that offer some of these for free. You could always try using multiple service offerings to get similar [...]

ViewScore simplifies the product research process for consumers by aggregating product review content from thousands of product review sources across the Net and generating a single product score that best captures the world’s view and opinion of the product.
Do you always go online to make price comparisons and read other consumers’ reviews before getting a gadget?And you most probably don’t rely solely on reviews based on just one website? Don’t you hope that you will have a way to find [...]

As we saw yesterday, a “free plus ad supported” model makes most sense for consumer oriented activities; where the presence of a “non-free” offering means that most first time viewers will choose to stay away or opt for other free offerings instead. For businesses, however, the ad-supported approach may not make sense; a subscription style offering may be far better. Following the success of Salesforce.com and other web based services, a number of Web 2.0 businesses are exploring the subscription [...]