Web/tech Archive

Robert Scoble writes that we need better statistics on web traffic. It got me thinking what sort of application could facilitate this and I think the application would need to have the following characteristics: Be a Toolbar – Yes, I know (and Scoble also observes) that most people do not download traffic measurement toolbars today, but if the application [...]

I have heard Guy Kawasaki preach that business ideas and startups must have real meaning. I asked him (via a comment on one of his blog posts) what meaning there was in Truemors. My question and his response are below: My Question: “Guy, I first read about Truemors a day after watching one of your videos in which you [...]

Believe it or not there are countries out there where TV audience data is not available. Primarily these are small or developing countries where audience measurement companies like AGB Nielsen do not operate, probably because it is not cost effective to use traditional audience measurement methods. Examples of such countries abound in Africa and I know of [...]

It is late so I will get straight to the point and try to keep this brief. I have an idea for a wiki site that is dedicated to market sector analyses. The goal is that for any given market sector, e.g. mobile advertising, the wiki gives as current a view of the state of [...]

Robert Scoble and Jeremiah Owyang are streaming live from Web 2.0 Expo using technology from Ustream and I bet many more will follow. It makes me wonder how long it will be before we see a search engine dedicated to finding live video streams – if there isn’t one already that I am not aware of that [...]

Ever since broadband became popular I have nursed an idea of streaming live video to ethinic minority groups in the western world – video of events back home that they can’t attend, such as

We have all had one or more ideas that we immediately laughed off as grandiose or just not feasible right? Many of us have also had that one idea that we did nothing about and later found that someone had beaten us to it. However, what is rare perhaps – certainly for me – is for one idea to fall into both [...]

Can you guess what this business idea is?  Submitted By: Idea Tagger Submitted Description: A service for startups Submitted Tags: stealth, startup, beta, membership,  community, testing, social network.

Can you guess what this business idea is?  Owner: Idea Tagger Submitted Description: A debt management service Submitted Tags: social networks, student debt, debt management, rotation, employers, contribution, web 2.0

Can you guess what this business idea is?   Submitted Tags: bad habit, social network, peer pressure, support, web 2.0