The other day I wrote about Kellogg applying open innovation tactics to harness the wisdom of crowds for new ideas, or as Kellogg put it… some Grrreat Ideas.
It appears that more household names and electronic firms are looking at crowd sourcing as open and user innovation models to harness and generate ideas for new products [...]
Archive > October 2008
Crowd-sourcing by Intel, Asus and Sony Ericsson…
AOL absorbed into Yahoo?
Is AOL about to get collapsed into Yahoo’s business?
Since Yahoo’s share collapse over the last few months they have rejected several Microsoft offers, accepted integrating Google ads (but having problems getting it approved by anti-monopoly rulings) and are now entertaining the notion of merging and absorbing the AOL business into it’s own. Ironic how this [...]
Windows Azure… MS in the clouds…
So… we’re back to Microsoft’s venture into the world of Cloud Computing. In the space of a couple of month’s the project has gone from being called Windows Strata to Windows Cloud to Windows Azure (Azure Services Platform).
Inevitably the official announcement at the PDC2008 (Professional Developers Conference) created an influx of blog activity on TechCrunch, [...]
Contextual Advertising on Images?
I was reading an article the other day about Contextual advertising on images…
It looks like Begun (recently approached for acquisition by Google – but subsequently rejected by the Russian anti-monopoly ruling), has started to offer contextual advertising through translucent layers in the same way YouTube is currently pushing contextual ads on their clips. The service [...]
Window shopping on Amazon…
Amazon launched their WindowShop micro-site the other day, allowing users to search and browse through Amazon best seller books, audio-books and CDs, in a very visual and 3D way. It’s a pretty cool and smooth ride, using your arrow keys you can float from book to CD reading through sample text and listening to sound-bites [...]
Fountain of Golden Youth…
A very interesting research study by Viacom Brand Solutions has output results that threaten to re-define demographic age groups, that most marketeers use as guidelines for their promotions and campaigns (both online and offline).
The key finding was that Youth should no longer be pigeon-holed into age brackets but should be recognised as a state or [...]
Yahoo… opens up with YAP
In what seems to be a last and desperate push for survival, Yahoo announced the imminent release of the Yahoo Application Platform (YAP) for developers to design, program and structure apps around Yahoo’s broad services and content.
You don’t have to be a huge software development house to get your apps onto Yahoo!. YAP is a [...]
SEO App for iPhone..
This app from Infinidigm looks like a pretty cool SEO app for the iPhone…
It’s not hard to figure out that the audience for this tool will be mainly from SEO gurus in media and search agencies… webmasters who travel a lot… or anyone else looking to analyze website content on the go…
Anyone tried it?
Amazon enhancements to the Cloud…
I’m a big fan of both the principle and theory behind Cloud Computing, so naturally I was quite interested when TechCrunch reported a couple days back some advancements to the Amazon EC2 service. The changes (listed below – as per TechCrunch) will most definitely help get more companies moving off internal infrastructures and costly data [...]
Enhancements on Google Analytics…
On Wednesday (22/10) Google Analytics beefed up the features available on this wonderfully free web analytics service…
As per the Google Analytics blog the changes include:
Advanced Segmentation, Custom Reports, a data export API (private beta), integrated reporting for AdSense publishers (private beta), multi-dimensional data visualizations called “Motion Charts,” and an updated user and administrative interface.
I’ve had [...]
