“Attention shoppers – some Web sites ditch the online cart and offer new experiences” “it isn’t just Etsy that is trying to innovate. Wists (www.wists.com) allows users to bookmark pages visually via a small image and summary, which can then be shared with other users. This sort of thing makes sharing wish lists of goodies with others easier, for example.”
A good round up of all the shopping blogs is in today’s Baltimore Sun: “Crib Candy: Overflowing with eye-catching items for the home, this site features tons of adventurous products for adventurous people.” Perhaps blogs to do with shopping needs a word? Blog Shops – Blops? Got time and money to spend? Click here – baltimoresun.com
Jarvis, pretending not to be a techy but really getting it on Google base:
“While social commerce is a fairly new concept in online shopping, it is quickly gaining momentum, as more online vendors realize that there are few more powerful sales forces than a personal recommendation, picking up where comparison shopping engines leave off…Wists.com and Kaboodle.com are two of the early social commerce programs. “ Yahoo Unleashes a User-Plugged Shoposphere
Michael Parekh explains wists much better than I ever could in his post: microchunking commerce the web 2.0 way. Speaking of which, having eaten my own dogfood by doing cribcandy I now know what I need to fix on wists to make it a lot better. I’m working hard to try and get a decent wists release out and some more cribcandy like sites are in the pipeline.
Joel is “starting to see a new round of pure architecture astronautics: meaningless stringing-together of new economy buzzwords in an attempt to sound erudite….I’ll do my part. I hereby pledge never again to use the term “Web 2.0″ on this blog, or to link to any article that mentions it. You’re welcome.” Most of what is ‘Web 2.0’ is based around ideas of a few people who had to ride out Web 1.0 with no buzz or funding, while people selling fresh mangos online were talking to VCs. This time perhaps the good people, the Evan Williams’ Dave Winers’ (yes, dammit, Dave Winer), ‘Ian Clarke equivalents are in their garretts building the real next generation web. Those people will be beavering away, building instead of talking. On that note – I’d guess I’d better get back to work. Joel on Software – Friday, October 21, 2005
Of all the gadgets which must be coming soon, this is what I want: A super high res, digital paper, ebook which boots instantly and allows web browsing with lower resolution bitmap images and print quality vector text. This news.com article shows why it hasn’t happened yet. Forget blogs–print needs its own iPod | CNET News.com
Full article is subcription only. FT.com / Home UK – Track clickerati’s new buzz
As the tech. world awaits Apple’s announcement of an iTunes cellphone, Apple’s strapline is: “1,000 songs in your pocket changed everything,” reads the invitation. “Here we go again.” In 1999 I bought a hard-drive MP3 player that fitted 1000 songs in my pocket. In 2000 I had a Samsung cellphone with built-in MP3 player. The problem was that both these products had badly designed hardware, poor useability and bug ridden firmware. Today I have an iPod and it suits me fine, because it is well designed. In fact it suits me better than the first generation iPod I had, which looked better, but was less ergonomic. The design has improved. Which brings me to a line that was oft touted by VC’s during the dotcom bubble – ‘First Mover Advantage’. From the Ebay auction site, to Google search engine to Microsoft OS to Apple MP3 players, none of them suffered…
[physics/0506213] From old wars to new wars and global terrorism Reading this gruesome study into fragmentation of ‘attack units’ in modern warfare, that Kottke linked to, it is clear that this is the mathematical model that should be used to examine niches in the ‘Long Tail’ debate. I.E. The change in power law coefficient over time and its trend compared with G-7 terrorism or non G7-terrorism could be applied to standard co-efficients for low inventory mass market retail, bricks and mortar, vs unlimited inventory, niche market retail, the Internet. I wonder what the standard power law coefficients are for these. I still have a hunch that there are some non-linear affects and that fractals play a role in revealing the same pattern for niches within niches etc.
If I were Steve Jobs… I would use the Gillette model (free fancy handle, pay for the blades) to sell value-add products like iPhoto on top of a free OS. I would make power PC and the Intel version of OSX which has been worked on for a while – free. Particularly in light of this: Everyone wants ‘free’ Windows… | CNET News.com
Verisgn estimate that at least one in 50 new sites is a spam site. Given that the total number of weblogs is normally measured by those that are actually posted to, this does not account for the growing number of spam blogs. I suspect that spam blogs actually account for an alarmingly high percentage of the total, and people like Technorati have to index them. A reputation system for blogs could effectively weed out this load. Verisign reports that it: “will change the way it reports the size of its domain name business, in terms of active registrations, because of the amount of speculation going on. It will reduce the size of the reported registrations by about 2%” “Names are being bought and then tested against traffic analyzers,” Sclavos said. “The ones that can generate more than the $6 or $7 [registration] fee per year are kept, the other ones…