2008 predictions (all lists included)
February 1st, 2008
Here’s a list including all the other lists predicting what to expect from 2008
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/2008_web_predictions.php
One has already come true:
“Microsoft will become more aggresive and buy many popular companies at once (remember Ballmer’s quote). Candidates include SixApart, Technorati.”
Emre Sokullu, Feature Writer, ReadWriteWeb
Microsoft has just launched an audacious $44.6bn bid for internet rival Yahoo in a deal that would create an online advertising powerhouse to rival market leader Google. That’s rather aggressive.
OpenSocial is OpenGadgets (and the de-portalization of content)
January 31st, 2008
I still haven’t got a clue what OpenSocial is really capable of…
Just read this by Steve O’hear who argues that OpenSocial should be renamed OpenGadget since “it’s all about standardizing the development of ‘widgets’ (sometimes called gadgets)”.
If this is so then I’m beginning to understand it and more importantly I’m actually beginning to find it rather interesting since most of the projects I’m involved with include somekind of “de-portalization strategy” (Thanks to Thomas Petersen of Hello Brand for learning me this fancy expression).
Do anyone have experience building widgets based on OpenSocial? Is this the way to do it? Example: If Wulffmorgenthaler were to build a lot of widgets should we use OpenSocial?
TraceWorks nominated “most innovative” at e-handelsprisen 2008
January 17th, 2008
TraceWorks has been selected as a nominee for the prestigious e-handelsprisen 2008, the region’s premier competition honoring online services and product innovations … Well, it is.
TraceWorks was selected based on its Marketing Software product Headlight in the category for most “innovative solutions” which the award committee defines like this (Danish):
“Innovationsprisen: Gives til en virksomhed, der på en nyskabende måde udnytter online-kanalen til at skabe værdi eller vurderes til at skabe fremtidig værdi (god forretning).”
That’s something we’re pretty proud of since introducing solid, useful and game shifting Software as a Service (SaaS) to the marketing industry is what TraceWorks is all about.
The final winners will be announced on March 27, 2008 at Radisson SAS Falconer Hotel, Falkoner Allé 9, 2000 Frederiksberg. Wish us luck!
A 3D printer!
December 17th, 2007
“The future is here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet”
Just imagine how quickly a 3D printer will get one from idea to prototype … It would be so awesome!
Even more interesting is WHEN 3D “printers” not only print prototypes but actually produces products (first rather simple products like ceramics, plastics, and different garments and later more complex ones) then we’ll experience a true distribution revolution. Can’t wait … When will this be!?
Facebook - A Powerful Marketing Vehicle
November 30th, 2007
Facebook is probably the most powerful phenomenon to hit the marketing industry since Google (and Headlight :).
It’s now possible to target your audience like never before. Fortunately I’m surrounded by very talented people who understand this platform better than I do: I’ve had 3 meetings today with curious and creative designers and developers at TraceWorks who have some really interesting ideas on how to really help marketers who want to utilize Facebook to generate some serious growth. Stay tuned for more updates.
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If you have to convince your boss that Facebook is a big deal here’s some statistics for you:
- 25m users, growing 3% per week, which is 100,000 new users per day (up from 7.5m users in July 2007), projected to reach 50m by end of 2007
- The fastest growing demographic is the 25 and over age group
- 1% of all time spent on the internet is facebook
- 50% of registered users come back to the site every day.
- 60 billion page views per month, 50 pages per user every day
- 6th most trafficked site in the U.S
- 1 bn photos hosted on the site, 6m uploaded each deay, 70k photos served per second, making facebook the biggest photo sharing site on the web
- 1-2 m people are on facebook simultaneously at any one time
- $100m per year advertising deal with Microsoft
- Internal valuation of $8bn, based on projected revenues of $1bn p.a. by 2015
Innovation … One Platform, Many Minds
November 7th, 2007
Just learned about this cool place called InnoCentive - an online community designed to help corporate and nonprofit clients solve research-and-development problems by posting descriptions of these problems, called challenges, on a website visited by thousands of researchers, scientists, engineers, and mathematicians from around the world; those who solve a problem can qualify for financial awards.
Anyone tried it? Is it good? Suitable for big or small companies?
Well, one of the reasons why InnoCentive is particular interesting to me is that I’ve been struggling some time now trying to figure out how a decent innovation ecosystem could look like (e.g. for TraceWorks). I’ve been asking questions like:
- What is the distinction between e.g. “mundane changes”, “innovative changes”, and “inventions”?
- What would be an effective incentive to motivate active involvement?
- How open should innovation be e.g. only internal or also include the outside world? And to what degree?
- How to control innovation in certain directions? And is control necessary at all (or even counter productive)?
I think it would be a lot of fun to knit together a simple yet powerful web app to help small and medium sized companies streamline innovation - or probably in many cases introduce “innovation” as concrete individual process for the first time.
I don’t want it to be a big market place like InnoCentive. I want it to be a small web based tool where employees, customers, selected experts and ambassadors can openly suggest, request, and collaborate in pushing a given company forward … and I think “SHIFT” could be a pretty cool name for such a web app.
Stay tuned. SHIFT might happen…