Ritesh on Apr 30th, 2007Internet users demographic
I found this article with snapshots from the Forrester survey of user behavior on the internet. This survey is keeping in mind the 2.0 craze aka user generated content. There are some interesting observations that can be inferred looking at this graphic alone. Here are some clear trends though: The amount of contributors is very [...]
Ritesh on Apr 30th, 2007Interestingness – a new metric for content
At the Big Thinkers conference by Andrew Tomkins of Yahoo, the word interestingness caught my attention. Though the idea of judging the interestingness of an object like a photo, document, video seems far fetched, I nevertheless was fascinated by the possibilities of this new metric. I found this patent document filed by Yahoo for their [...]
Ritesh on Apr 28th, 2007Evolution of Social Networks – A mind map
I had made a mindmap of how social networks will come of age and continue to play an important part in the future of web computing. This mind map was made for my talk at Barcamp Bangalore 3, you can read more about the talk here. click on the image to enlarge…… Â This mind map [...]
Ritesh on Apr 28th, 2007Flex vs Silverlight – Flex wins round one, goes open source
Update : I just checked out what Silverlight is capable of on their site http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/ and its really great. The silverlight runtime is just over an MB in size, download and let the magic begin. Now don’t think Im being partial, but look at circumstances, Flash has been around for aeons and one doesn’t expect [...]
Ritesh on Apr 27th, 2007Advertising’s the name of the game
Yes, its all about advertising. From pay per post to “friendvertising”, its all being done in the name of advertising good. The recent addition, ScratchYourself. Dont worry, it isn’t as dirty as you think it is. Infact its a viral advertising campaign that could prove to be the equivalent of crumpled brochures. Its simple and [...]
