Web Apps API

Just quoting a very interesting part of a post from webware about web apps API:

"Since we're moving towards a Web world in which services and social networks are far more important than their interfaces -- and where the best interface builders are often not employed by the companies that make the services they are writing apps for -- getting APIs right is critical."

Pitching - the american way

Explained by @Scobleizer:

@aruni I would get to the demo fast, then explain what we just saw, cover the market need/pain/size, cover competitors, then cover team.

My european education would tell me more to do it like that: cover the market need/pain/size, cover competitors, cover team, demoing while explaining.
But it's much more boring.

I'll try the american way ;-)

Some Virtual World Market Numbers

There is a growing number of teens visiting virtual worlds. What is possible to deduce from this figure is that a teenager who is 16 in 2006 will be 21 in 2011. So maybe penguins will not be fun anymore. We can assume that grown-up virtual worlds will thus become increasingly more visited.
















From this second figure we can see that search engines are really the way to display influential ads. That's true, sometimes we query google not to get search results, but to get very relevant ads. For example, when you are searching for a specific hotel in a specific city, you want to see who is willing to pay to advertise their product on the top (or right) of the page. Interactive ads are the second winner for the most influential ads. I consider advergames and adverworld as being cutting-edge interactive ads, and there is still a lot to be made in that field, that's encouraging ! Advergames and adverworlds are not just ad billboards in an online environment, they are really created from scratch around a brand to advertise.





















To finish this post, here is an interesting figure about the number of hours spent on second life, which as you can read is provided by linden labs. This seems to go towards the opposite of rumours spreading over the internet and local newspapers. But let's be careful because the source of information is not so neutral.






















(eMarketer figures grabbed from this post)

Two videos I need to watch

The first one is about the "Getting Things Done" method, i.e., the GTD method. How to stop procrastination and get things done !



The second one is a Scoble interview of MySpace CTO.

KinderGarten Physics Lecture !

Clifford Stoll gives a really entertaining and energetic TED spitch !