Posts Tagged with ‘web-2.0’

When Is a Web App Mature Enough to Leave Beta?

Svetlana Gladkova

Today I’ve seen a rare piece of news in my feed reader: about one of the most popular online task management applications Remember The Milk graduating from beta 4 years after the team began its development. The example they quote is obvious: now that Gmail is finally out of beta (with so many people trusting [...]

Now That 2008 Is Almost Over, How Far Have We Moved Online from Desktop?

Svetlana Gladkova

Whenever we talk about web 2.0 the most popular mantra for us is about people moving more and more of our activities from desktop applications to online ones – until we eventually need nothing but a browser installed on out computer to perform all our tasks, both business and personal ones. But since we’ve been [...]

Now That Internet Economy Is In Danger, Google and Facebook Could Save It

Svetlana Gladkova

I think everyone has been thinking for a while now about how the entire internet industry is flawed and how it will face even more serious problems in the future unless something is changed in terms of how businesses make money here. Recently every time a new startup sends me a pitch about their new [...]

No More Free Lunch Online. Good for Everyone

Svetlana Gladkova

There’s no doubt that the economic crisis we are now in now will damage some industries and change others. And of course internet will be one of the industries affected. I think it is already obvious that if there is one thing that needs to be changed and will probably change, it is the way [...]

Talk Like a Pirate Day: Will The Web Audience Ever Grow Up?

Svetlana Gladkova

Sometimes I have a feeling that the entire web industry is full of hip and cool kids – no matter how old they are and how expensive their toys like iPhone and Apple MacBook Air are. Today’s example is the Talk Like A Pirate day that seems to be absolutely everywhere. I woke up today [...]

O’Reilly Realized Web 2.0 Should Be Useful But Will It Be?

Svetlana Gladkova

Yesterday at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York Tim O’Reilly, the person who coined the term “web 2.0″ (and the organizer of the conference itself) made a very interesting statement during his keynote. He decided to finally tell out loud what many of us have been thinking for a while and had our concerns [...]

Welcome to a Busy Technology September

Svetlana Gladkova

Today we are having the first day of fall and no matter how sad it may be for some of us to welcome this rainy season, September will sure be a very exciting and busy month for everyone in the technology blogosphere. The main reason is that we are going to have four (!!!) major [...]

Web 2.0 Industry As a Perfect Example of Crowd Thinking

Svetlana Gladkova

Back in my university years when I studied philosophy I once wrote a paper on crowd thinking and behavior. That experience taught me that crowd is a very dangerous phenomenon because a crowd rarely can be reasonable and people can be easily manipulated to follow guidance from any leader clever enough to issue orders a [...]

Why Do People Google “Internet”?

Svetlana Gladkova

Recently I have noticed an interesting thing in the traffic stats for Profy. Specifically I have started to notice people arriving from Google (mostly) and some other search engines after they do a search for a single word – “internet”. And since I always find it amusing when people google “Google” to get the same [...]

WhozAround Offers a Simpler Way to Plan Events with Friends

Svetlana Gladkova

Yesterday Susan Mernit and Lisa Williams from People’s Software presented their project named WhozAround? at TechStars Investor Day in Boulder. It is already possible to try out the Facebook application for WhozAround! (in alpha currently, beta promised to arrive soon) to see what this nice little tool is about. And since Susan has shared the [...]