Tech analyst, AI & the web
The New York Times has an article today about sentiment analysis, a trend which has been accelerating on the back of the Real-time Web – and Twitter in particular. Sentiment analysis is no short-term hot trend. It will eventually become a key feature of search engines, which will integrate the aggregate sentiment of the crowd … Read more
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup – our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week – we poll our readers on their 3 most exciting web apps or services, analyze the latest Twitter client stats, report on MySpace’s acquisition of Facebook app iLike, review the state of the netbook market, talk to Tim … Read more
Yesterday we asked what 3 web apps or services you find the most exciting right now. Not your 3 most used or favorite, but the apps that currently make you tingly with excitement. We got some great responses in the comments, so in this post we pick out our top 10 from your choices. We’ve … Read more
One year ago today we first asked that question, so now is a good time to ask it again. What 3 web apps or services do you find the most exciting right now? Note that ‘exciting’ is the keyword, so they won’t necessarily be your 3 favorite or most used web apps or services. For … Read more
Facebook is a social networking site that is enormously popular, but it can be a frustrating user experience. The design of Facebook leaves a lot to be desired and there are almost too many choices for things to do on Facebook. Also some of the more popular Facebook activities are trivial instead of useful – … Read more
In our analysis of the RFID market, we noted that the cost of RFID tags was a major reason why the technology hasn’t taken off as many had predicted. However various experiments are underway to produce a low-cost RFID chip. We mentioned MIT’s bokodes in our analysis; others include Alien Technology, PolyIC, and ChronoTrack Systems‘ … Read more
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup – our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week – we report on and analyze the acquisition of lifestreaming company FriendFeed by Facebook. We also explore a new trend that may route around both companies: distributed social networking. In other news this week: Facebook announced that user … Read more
So far in this What The Internet of Things Means For You series we’ve looked at how the Internet of Things (when everyday objects are connected to the Web) will affect marketers and accountants. Some of the comments on those posts have requested that we look at the effect on consumers – i.e. all of … Read more
Earlier this week we looked at how the emerging Internet of Things, when everyday objects become connected to the Web, will affect product managers and marketers. Today we look at some of the implications for accountants and bean counters – those people responsible for revenue and expenditure in companies. A recent article by McKinsey, a … Read more
Analyst firm Gartner has just released its latest Hype Cycle white paper, detailing some of the biggest trends in technology this year. According to the report, cloud computing, e-books and Internet TV are at the “Peak of Inflated Expectations,” while this year’s biggest hit Twitter is said to have “tipped over the peak” and is … Read more
Some of you may be reading our series on the Internet of Things and wondering: what use is this to me in my daily work? So one day my fridge will be able to tell me when the milk has run out, when I travel my luggage will have an RFID tag and not be … Read more
We’ve been writing a lot about Internet of Things this year. It’s when everyday objects become connected to the Internet – taking us beyond the Social Web where people talk to each other, into a Web where things talk to each other (and us) as well. We’ve analyzed some of the theory, and experiments from … Read more
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup – our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week – we analyze the impact of real-time information on the Web, investigate ‘web squared’ (when web 2.0 meets Internet of Things), tell you why cloud computing is the future of mobile, look at Delicious’ new Twitter re-design, check … Read more
One year ago we reviewed a new health app called Practice Fusion, a free, web-based EMR (electronic medical record) system for physicians. This week Practice Fusion announced an investment, amount not disclosed, by salesforce.com. They also announced the upcoming launch of their patient health record (PHR) application on Force.com, salesforce.com’s cloud computing platform. With these … Read more
Recently Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle released a white paper entitled Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On. It focuses squarely, pardon the pun, on the intersection of social web technologies with the emerging Internet of Things (real world objects connected to the Internet). The ‘web squared’ moniker is, commercially speaking, a none to subtle … Read more