I got up this morning to find the world going crazy about the new Twitter iPad application – see this glowing Engadget review and the Techcrunch titled Twitter Just Killed Something Else: Their Own Website – the title gives a hint of where I’m going with this post. (Apologies for the fact [...]

Last week I asked whether the TV and movie industry is ahead of the music industry in the race to build profitable streaming services.  Today there is more news that suggests it is:

You might have seen the news today that Google launched a priority email feature within Gmail.  I am still using Microsoft Exchange for the vast bulk of my emails so I haven’t been able to experience the power of Google’s offering myself, but Jason Kincaid on Techcrunch thinks ‘it’s fantastic’.

This is a feature [...]

Companies have been building ways to establish authority and credibility online since the beginning of the web.  Yahoo started life as ‘Jerry’s guide to the world wide web’, a site where Yahoo founders David Filo and Jerry Yang lent their authority to what they viewed as the best sites.  Google’s link based [...]

The graphic towards the bottom of this post was on Techcrunch this morning.  It shows Google’s acquisitions over the last nine years.  It is interesting for a number of reasons (not least size, (sub) sector, accelerating rate, and reason for acquiring) but I’m going to focus on geography.

I did a bit of [...]

Netflix, the US DVD rental cum video streaming business is out cutting $1bn deals with movie studios for streaming rights and Hulu is contemplating an IPO – both developments which suggest the premium video streaming business is starting to reach maturity.  The music streaming business, by contrast, is still finding its way, and [...]

Reading this Techcrunch piece on Chomp, a provider of search and discovery for iPhone apps, prompted me to explore a question that has been circling in my mind in a somewhat unstructured fashion for a couple of weeks now – namely what is the difference between an app store and a portal?

It [...]

This is the sixth and final post in a series summarising the key arguments of Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity is near: When humans transcend biology.  The previous posts were: