Posts Tagged with ‘web-3.0’

Explaining and understanding hakia and other semantic search engines has been a little more than tough for developers and potential users these past few months. Readers and users are not dense, but perhaps they are impatient and a little ADD. Developers, especially the good ones, spare no text or video to explain these complex and often abstract creations. Still, most visitors (to hakia in particular) are not willing to devote more than a few seconds to evaluate the potential of [...]

Today I had an opportunity to talk with the developers at JS-Kit about some of their latest cutting edge widgets. Widgets have become part of Web 2.0 popular culture, but rarely does one come along that we think of as more than just “cute” or at best useful. JS-Kit is developing mega-site widgets for all blogs and websites. The vision at JS-Kit is transform widgets into fully functioning, dynamic and interactive tools for everyone - not just sites with huge [...]

A fantastic new communications interface called Pronto! just emerged from the secret vault of CommuniGate. Pronto! is being unveiled today in Chicago at Adobe Max - the premier experience for Adobe users worldwide. Pronto is a RIA net communications dashboard that quite honestly blew me away. A good friend (Brian Blank of Future-Works) sent us a sneak peek at this refreshing tool that combines email, calendaring, IM, media player and even web/blog editing software in a tight package. Before you [...]

On Friday we got a rather exclusive look at Zude's upcoming public release for this week. This year's most promising social computing platform has beefed up everything from server capacity to social reach for this launch. Zude helps people develop their own dynamic websites without any programming or HTML skills. Anyone from Coders and Geeks to Grandma's and children can now use cross-domain drag and drop to build very compelling sites.
I covered Zude for ReadWriteWeb back in June [...]

Should we expect everything on the Web to be free? Is anything really free even on ad supported sites? I was reading a post on the AuditorumA blog today - dealing with these very questions - and I think it is about time we wrestled with free versus paid as models for monetization. I have talked with AuditoriumA's CEO Tony Mars on a couple of occasions and I reviewed his upscale human search site last month. Tony makes some valid [...]

MyQuire is launching an anesthetic for project management at DEMOfall 07. This online tool is designed to provide effective project management capability for all users - not just professionals. There are a score of project tools out there but none that really suit the masses. MyQuire allows users to work the way they naturally do rather than via the constraints and discipline of most tools. This intuitive tool bridges the space between social entertainment and collective productivity. MyQuire provides an [...]

The DEMOfall 07 kickoff has introduced us to another very cool development - Yuuguu and one of its founders Anish Kapoor today. Yuuguu is designed for connecting people remotely through universal screen sharing on PC or mobile devices. The service allows users to share and take control of each other's PC's and devices and it supports virtually any browser. Yuuguu is similar in practice to GoToMeeting and other platforms but it is much simpler to use and control. Yuuguu users [...]

Diigo.com announced their re-launch today with an information network unlike any we have seen in  scope or capability. The new Diigo network being unveiled at DEMOfall 07 creates global communities around data, information, interests and knowledge. These new communities engage and connect people around the content they collect and use. Diigo is already one of the most useful bookmarking and research sites on the Web. The integration of Webslides and the power of “writing the Web” makes Diigo perhaps the [...]

Since the early days of the web, the online subscription model has existed. For many companies it was a primary source of revenue, and as subscribers increased, so did profits.
Now, with so many free services popping up during the web 2.0 phase of the internet, it seems that fewer and fewer people are willing to pay anything for content online. More and more companies are ditching the subscription model in favor of other methods.
Is it just me or are their [...]