Monday, January 22, 2007

The Mashup Economy

by alec on January 22, 2007

In Making Money in the Mashup Economy, GigaOm writer Anne Zelenka enumerates the ways that ome of the participants at the latest Mashup Camp have been making money.  She includes:

  • Elastic Computing (on demand services from the cloud)
  • Aggregated Data Access
  • Mashup Development Tools
  • and…. mashup’s themselves.

I’m surprised at the failure of companies to monetize access to websites. I would think that the services provided by an Amazon, or a Google should be monetizable in other ways, other than simply through related sales of advertising or product.

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Ottawa DemoCamp 3

by alec on January 22, 2007

 

What: DemoCamp 3
When: Monday, January 29, 2007 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Where: The ClockTower Pub

575 Bank Street
Ottawa, Ontario

 

Next Monday night will be Ottawa DemoCamp 3.  The format is pretty simple.  Each presenter has 2 minutes to introduce the topic, 8 minutes to show product, and 5 to discuss with the audience afterward.  We’ll be in the lineup, which includes:

  • Nelson Ko – Citadel Rock Online Communities.  He’ll be showing a WYSIWYG Wiki with Google maps. 
  • Scott Annan – Mercury Grove – an enterprise collaboration tool.
  • Alec Saunders – Iotum – Talknow – a new presence application for Blackberry users.
  • Peter Childs / Ian Graham – Distributed Calendars

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Get me a Kohler shower head… please!

January 22, 2007

Luca Fillighedu has spotted an interesting series of videos on Brightcove, from Kohler.  They’re all commercials, and Luca asks why you couldn’t just embed a link into the video (say a Sitofono link) to allow the viewer to get more information.  Exactly!  This is one of the flaws of video blogging, in my opinion.  The [...]

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iPhone advertisement, circa 1996

January 22, 2007

The battle over the iPhone trademark promises to be messy, to say the least.  Flat Planet Phone Company CEO Moshe Maeir dropped me a quick note this morning to tell me to have a look at his blog, where he has posted a scan of a 1996 magazine advertisement showing an internet phone named iPhone.  [...]

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The future of marketing communications?

January 22, 2007

In what has got to be one of the more interesting experiments in social media, Microsoft has hired journalist David Spark to edit a “whitepaper” on hosted messaging services.  The twist?  Microsoft’s whitepaper has taken the form of a wiki, with Spark as the administrator.  The text, as it stands now, is opinionated and biased.  What [...]

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