Bookmarks vom 24-10-2008

A new report by Josh Bernoff of Forrester Research states that usage of social technologies increased markedly in 2008: three in four US online adults now use social tools to connect with each, up from 56% in 2007. According to the report, the largest growth came from ratings and reviews, "voting" on websites, and user-generated video. Blogging and tagging were also popular.

Alan Patrick, Berater und Blogger auf broadstuff.com, sprach in einem Vortrag auf der Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin über kostenlose Angebote im Web, auch Freeconomics genannt, und ihre Grenzen.

As part of the Blogger Program for the Web 2.0 Expo Europe, 25 bloggers from all over Europe were invited to sit down with Tim O’Reilly, Jennifer Pahlka and Brady Forrest. Lucky guy that I am I was part of this small group, enjoying an intense discussion, alas it was only about 50 minutes.

Google’s Android Market has been officially live for 24 hours. Here are some early observations and comparisons with the iPhone App Store’s first 24 hours.

As we’ve known for some time, only free applications will be allowed on the App Market initially. According to today’s announcement, developers will be able to distribute paid applications beginning in Q1 of 2009. In the past, Google has said that they would not take a cut of the revenue, which many took to mean that 100% of each sale went to the developer. While it is still true that Google is not taking even a single percent for themselves, 30% will go to carriers and the folks who handle billing. This leaves 70% for the developer, matching Apple’s App Store revenue share model.

CSS doesn’t always have to be serious business. In this article, you’ll see 25 fun, novel, and experimental CSS techniques and demonstrations.

Interview mit Semantic Web Spezialist Andreas Blumauer
Andreas Blumauer ist Geschäftsführer der Semantic Web Company: das Unternehmen bietet Firmen und öffentlich-rechtlichen Institutionen Dienstleistungen rund um das Thema Semantic Web, semantische Technologien und Social Software, von Schulung und Consulting bis hin zur Implementation konkreter Projekte. Gemeinsam mit Tassilo Pellegrini stelle Andreas Blumauer das Text-Kompendium “Social Semantic Web” für den Springer Verlag zusammen

Das „Mitmach-Web", das die kollektive Intelligenz der Internetnutzer einsetzt, das Internet als offene Plattform begreift und allen geschlossenen Systemen den Untergang prophezeit, hat nach seiner Ansicht einen klaren Sieger: „Web 2.0 ist das Google-Zeitalter"

A recent forecast by Magna Global predicts that mobile media will be one of the fastest growing of the emerging media channels, estimating it to grow by 43% to approximately $300 million in 2009. That reach provides advertisers with a huge market opportunity to reach and engage with consumers in a new and scalable way by staying ahead of the curve in advertising innovation – reaching people when and where a decision is most likely to occur.

This context-based approach to social media advertising offers a creative, secure way to breathe new life into an old model. With a new way to seamlessly present meaningful offers, and even customized environments, to users, advertisers can now understand and appeal to an individual’s online and offline interests based on the fullness of their participation across social media sites.

Das Internet gewinnt als täglich genutzte Informationsquelle sprunghaft an Bedeutung. Nach Daten der Allensbacher Computer- und Technikanalyse (ACTA) ist vor allem der Anteil junger Menschen, für die das Internet unverzichtbar für die tägliche Information geworden ist, in diesem Jahr spürbar gestiegen. In der Gruppe der 14- bis 19-Jährigen ist dieser Anteil von 36 auf 43 Prozent geklettert, hat eine Sonderauswertung der Acta ergeben. Auch in der Gruppe der 20 – 29-Jährigen beträgt der Anstieg fast 5 Prozentpunkte gegenüber dem Vorjahr. In der Gruppe der "Silver Surfer" zwischen 50 und 64 Jahren hat sich der Anteil um 4 Prozentpunkte ebenfalls spürbar erhöht.

As Lee notes, many thinkers on this subject have talked about how projects like Wikipedia "overcome" the free-rider anxiety (the idea that someone else will benefit from your labor without having to contribute to it), but that's not quite right: when someone else's enjoyment of your labor costs you nothing, and buys you fame, then you don't have a free-rider problem at all

What about us? What is the culture of cloudiness? My hunch (which I cannot prove yet) is that the consequences of going from the web to the cloud will exceed the changes we saw going onto the web originally. I've teased out some cultural dynamics I think will prevail in a cloudy world:

Mit Youcalc gibt es eine neue Plattform für die Entwicklung und Verteilung von Widgets. Die einfache Manipulation bzw. Visualisierung von Daten und die Möglichkeit, beliebige externen Datenquellen anzudocken, könnten Nährboden für eine Fülle von Enterprise-Widgets werden.

Demand for iPhone apps is so great that their makers are getting what could be called an “iPhone bump” — where the release of an iPhone application boosts the fortunes of a mobile application maker overall. The impact is going to be even more pronounced for mobile software makers that had previously been selling to other platforms.