In our ongoing series on technology that has gone the way of the dinosaur, this week Polaroid announced the demise of the instant camera with the closure of the manufacturing:
Yesterday, the company behind the iconic instant camera announced it was to stop making the film used by Polaroid enthusiasts, because there is no longer a [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Web 2.0'
Technology Relevance and the Yahoo MSN Mashup
February 10th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Microsoft · Polariod · Web 2.0 · Yahoo
Not so Half Baked Half.com
August 30th, 2006 · No Comments
The late 1990s were a boom time and there are constant reminders of the more excesses over that period. Half.com is an example of a successful exit to an unsuccessful business.
But back in 1999, in its Netflix-like heyday, Half.com was hot. And then it did something quite remarkable. As a publicity stunt, it bought a [...]
Web 2.0 companies I like
August 6th, 2006 · 1 Comment
There is some great media goings on at the moment especially the likes of Kevin Rose at Digg.com. Whilst they are a very interesting Web 2.0 company and social book marking and meta sites like Del.icio.us and Digg are all the rage, I can’t help but cast a wary eye over business models that have [...]
The end of Digg or the End of Journalism ?
July 17th, 2006 · No Comments
With the advent of Digg 3.0 the means the development of Social Bookmarking or my term Social Editorial has moved to another level. Social Editorial implies more than bookmarking or “Digging” but running commentary and a new feature “blog this” which implies an additional participation in the editorial. These new features allows different views of [...]
Social Network also includes you and meme
July 17th, 2006 · 4 Comments
Andrea Weckerle from New Millenium PR Blog has challenged me to come up with my favorite social network tools and tagged me meme. Okay I will bite. Here are the five tools I have been work within the social networking realm:
Technorati – This tool I have used for a while. Tagging is something that you [...]
Web 2.0 big on Marketing less so on Reliability
July 16th, 2006 · No Comments
I am a hard core believer that innovation almost 100% created from the bottom up. Almost 100% of that innovation in the Web 2.0 space is small companies like Technorati, Six Apart (typepad), Wordpress (the Apache of the Blogspace) and delicious among many others. They work on a small problem, it gets popular, then they [...]
