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Category Archives: Web 2.0
Why Do Some Online Services Thrive?
Last week, TechCrunch reported that Dropbox had attracted two million users, just four months after it reached the one million active user mark. It got me thinking about why some online service become so popular, while the vast majority struggle to get any kind of traction no matter how hard they try.
Now, if anyone had [...]
Dancing Outside the Digital Domain
With e-commerce continuing to see strong growth and cloud-computing becoming accepted, it’s sometimes easy to forget that the sales of products and services is still very much alive and well in the “real world” – people are still buying things off-line when they could easily do so online.
It’s a pretty obvious and straightforward notion but [...]
What Services Would You Pay to Use?
“Sooner or later people are going to get addicted to some of these services and they’ll be willing to pay for it.”
- John Malone, the chairman Liberty Media, quoted by The Guardian about his belief that consumers will eventually pay for their favorite online services.
His comments begs a few questions:
1. what online services would you [...]
The Perils and Dangers of Obligation
Renny Gleeson made a three-minute appearance (see the video below) at TED in February that captured one of the biggest challenges facing the digerati.
What Gleeson thrust into the spotlight is the “culture of availability” – the concept that mobile technology is making us available nearly all the time. This availability creates the expectation that [...]
Catching the Online Accounting Wave