In San Francisco there is a new flagship store of Hannspree. It a a great store with really fun (and cheap!) TVs.
In San Francisco there is a new flagship store of Hannspree. It a a great store with really fun (and cheap!) TVs.
At the coming European Glass auction at Christies in May a real avalanche of Dutch mid 18th century friendship glasses can be found. Here a couple a really like:
At the coming European Glass auction at Christies in May a real avalanche of Dutch mid 18th century friendship glasses can be found. Here a couple a really like:
We saw some interesting demo's from swivel (data presentation on the Internet), vidoop (a cool new login security concept), tell me ( a not so cool voice to data mobile startup just bought by Microsoft).
After that we listened to a great story of Bill Tancer of Hitwise and David Sifry of Technocrati about Internettraffic and blogs.
Hitwise divides the users in een couple of socio/demographic/lifestyle groups. Three of those are important to predict what the next big thing will be. (Youtube took for instance just SIX WEEKS to be the most dominant video website.
The groups are: Money & brains, Pools & patio, Young Digerati...
According to the most recent numbers the sites to watch out for are: Yelp (user generated yellow pages) Stumble upon (exhange of bookmarks), Weeworld (chat with avatars), Imeem (playlist exchange), Piczo (community website) and Veoh (video exchange).
Interesting stats about participation: only 0,16% of the users of youtube participate in uploading a video. For flickr: 0,2% and wikipedia: 4,6%. A participant is usually older and male.
Although the amount of active blogs in decreasing (21% vs. 36% last year), They are getting more and more important in the top 1000 linked to sites.Tagging really is exploding and now 37% of all bloggers are adding tags. That will create all new possibilities in the future.
By the way: I started to tag with this new VOX blog and am investigating the automatic tagging from tagyu.
I have to say we are really overwhelmed by the sheer volume of information and the quality of it here at Web 2.0 expo.
I have never written so many notes and new ideas and concept keep up coming like rapid fire. I guess that Marijn and I need at least a couple of years to develop them all. But WAIT: we do not have time for that! The development in Internet is at Top Gear we have to implement things quickly.
Of the many many things we saw and learned today just a couple of highlights.
For Marijn and me the Mobile 2.0 part of the afternoon and the Venture Capital track were extremely insightful.
Last but not least we compared the user interface design of games with the UID of web2.0.
After a day packed with information we unwinded at Levende at Castro, one the most hip places in SF to celebrate a great Conference and time here in San Francisco.
By the way: I bought Parallels today so my macbook is now windows and linux as well.
I have to say we are really overwhelmed by the sheer volume of information and the quality of it here at Web 2.0 expo.
I have never written so many notes and new ideas and concept keep up coming like rapid fire. I guess that Marijn and I need at least a couple of years to develop them all. But WAIT: we do not have time for that! The development in Internet is at Top Gear we have to implement things quickly.
Of the many many things we saw and learned today just a couple of highlights.
For Marijn and me the Mobile 2.0 part of the afternoon and the Venture Capital track were extremely insightful.
Last but not least we compared the user interface design of games with the UID of web2.0.
After a day packed with information we unwinded at Levende at Castro, one the most hip places in SF to celebrate a great Conference and time here in San Francisco.
By the way: I bought Parallels today so my macbook is now windows and linux as well.
It's a sad day today but also a happy day. After 985 posts on Blogger it is time for me to move my blog to VOX.
One fun aspect of Web2.0 is that the logos of the web2.0 companies are really special. Lot's of weird names, colors and symbols. Here is a bunch of them on flickr.
Finally the conference has started. Before the first keynote speaker (Uncle Jef from Amazon) however we followed some additional workshops. The guys from Modzilla told us a little bit more about open source development. We then went into a presentation about user generated content. Interesting to see that the authority balance has shifted so powerful. It is important to learn and lead your users while offering them the option to play with the content.
By the way the guys from Modzilla showed us some new upcoming features that are wicked awesome. (The Coop). Have a look at dai.sy. or weblin It's al about sharing the browser experience with other users.
Into the browser expect more functionalities as well - so a host of features now embedded in almost every website (like print sent to a friend, email etc. etc. ) will be obsolete.
Jef Bezos (founder and CEO of Amazon) told us about Amazon Services - a giant platform on which the can deliver digital services in the future.
Inspired by the We2.0 conference I started a new blog today. Pretty much the same content but under de VOX platform. This gives me more flexibility and the opportunity to share not only photo's but audio, video books and other documents as well.
ALSO I can do some more editing on VOX. :-)
And trow in some tags - so I can archive my posts better. Together with a fresh new lay-out I guess It's Marque's Blog2.0...
Enjoy!
One fun aspect of Web2.0 is that the logos of the web2.0 companies are really special. Lot's of weird names, colors and symbols. Here is a bunch of them on flickr.
One fun aspect of Web2.0 is that the logos of the web2.0 companies are really special. Lot's of weird names, colors and symbols. Here is a bunch of them on flickr.
We saw some interesting demo's from swivel (data presentation on the Internet), vidoop (a cool new login security concept), tell me ( a not so cool voice to data mobile startup just bought by Microsoft).
After that we listened to a great story of Bill Tancer of Hitwise and David Sifry of Technocrati about Internettraffic and blogs.
Hitwise divides the users in een couple of socio/demographic/lifestyle groups. Three of those are important to predict what the next big thing will be. (Youtube took for instance just SIX WEEKS to be the most dominant video website.
The groups are: Money & brains, Pools & patio, Young Digerati...
According to the most recent numbers the sites to watch out for are: Yelp (user generated yellow pages) Stumble upon (exhange of bookmarks), Weeworld (chat with avatars), Imeem (playlist exchange), Piczo (community website) and Veoh (video exchange).
Interesting stats about participation: only 0,16% of the users of youtube participate in uploading a video. For flickr: 0,2% and wikipedia: 4,6%. A participant is usually older and male.
Although the amount of active blogs in decreasing (21% vs. 36% last year), They are getting more and more important in the top 1000 linked to sites.Tagging really is exploding and now 37% of all bloggers are adding tags. That will create all new possibilities in the future.
By the way: I started to tag with this new VOX blog and am investigating the automatic tagging from tagyu.
We saw some interesting demo's from swivel (data presentation on the Internet), vidoop (a cool new login security concept), tell me ( a not so cool voice to data mobile startup just bought by Microsoft).
After that we listened to a great story of Bill Tancer of Hitwise and David Sifry of Technocrati about Internettraffic and blogs.
Hitwise divides the users in een couple of socio/demographic/lifestyle groups. Three of those are important to predict what the next big thing will be. (Youtube took for instance just SIX WEEKS to be the most dominant video website.
The groups are: Money & brains, Pools & patio, Young Digerati...
According to the most recent numbers the sites to watch out for are: Yelp (user generated yellow pages) Stumble upon (exhange of bookmarks), Weeworld (chat with avatars), Imeem (playlist exchange), Piczo (community website) and Veoh (video exchange).
Interesting stats about participation: only 0,16% of the users of youtube participate in uploading a video. For flickr: 0,2% and wikipedia: 4,6%. A participant is usually older and male.
Although the amount of active blogs in decreasing (21% vs. 36% last year), They are getting more and more important in the top 1000 linked to sites.Tagging really is exploding and now 37% of all bloggers are adding tags. That will create all new possibilities in the future.
By the way: I started to tag with this new VOX blog and am investigating the automatic tagging from tagyu.
Finally the conference has started. Before the first keynote speaker (Uncle Jef from Amazon) however we followed some additional workshops. The guys from Modzilla told us a little bit more about open source development. We then went into a presentation about user generated content. Interesting to see that the authority balance has shifted so powerful. It is important to learn and lead your users while offering them the option to play with the content.
By the way the guys from Modzilla showed us some new upcoming features that are wicked awesome. (The Coop). Have a look at dai.sy. or weblin It's al about sharing the browser experience with other users.
Into the browser expect more functionalities as well - so a host of features now embedded in almost every website (like print sent to a friend, email etc. etc. ) will be obsolete.
Jef Bezos (founder and CEO of Amazon) told us about Amazon Services - a giant platform on which the can deliver digital services in the future.
Finally the conference has started. Before the first keynote speaker (Uncle Jef from Amazon) however we followed some additional workshops. The guys from Modzilla told us a little bit more about open source development. We then went into a presentation about user generated content. Interesting to see that the authority balance has shifted so powerful. It is important to learn and lead your users while offering them the option to play with the content.
By the way the guys from Modzilla showed us some new upcoming features that are wicked awesome. (The Coop). Have a look at dai.sy. or weblin It's al about sharing the browser experience with other users.
Into the browser expect more functionalities as well - so a host of features now embedded in almost every website (like print sent to a friend, email etc. etc. ) will be obsolete.
Jef Bezos (founder and CEO of Amazon) told us about Amazon Services - a giant platform on which the can deliver digital services in the future.
Inspired by the We2.0 conference I started a new blog today. Pretty much the same content but under de VOX platform. This gives me more flexibility and the opportunity to share not only photo's but audio, video books and other documents as well.
ALSO I can do some more editing on VOX. :-)
And trow in some tags - so I can archive my posts better. Together with a fresh new lay-out I guess It's Marque's Blog2.0...
Enjoy!
Inspired by the We2.0 conference I started a new blog today. Pretty much the same content but under de VOX platform. This gives me more flexibility and the opportunity to share not only photo's but audio, video books and other documents as well.
ALSO I can do some more editing on VOX. :-)
And trow in some tags - so I can archive my posts better. Together with a fresh new lay-out I guess It's Marque's Blog2.0...
Enjoy!
This morning the conference started. We had several options for workshops and started with a revealing session with Kelly Goto about the development process. We learned about hybride designers, rapid agile prototyping, rapid user interface research. Although we guessed that we were some sort of experts in this field it turned out the the developments in this area go with the speed of light. We noticed that we were doing sometimes things the old fashioned way at Funda. Now that we start from scratch again we can implement the web 2.0 way :-)
The M-Audio O2 is a great travel companion. It has real size keys but is super slim. It even has assignable controls so you are in charge of the Reason rack devices. I am testing Apple's own Garageband right now and it is fun. :-)
