Ritesh on Jul 19th, 2007Community as a Service – implications of the facebook platform
The recent opening up of the facebook platform has created a rage in the industry. Facebook themselves , after opening up to public signups, have had an increase of 80% in their monthly uniques. The facebook platform is just another icing in the cake. There are innumerable number of apps that are being created on [...]
Ritesh on Jul 2nd, 2007Social Design and the Opaque value problem
I read this post by Joshua Porter about the value of social networks and the opaque value problem and it got me thinking. Why and for what do we actually use web based services. The fact that we don’t understand what value others get from social web apps is part of the paradigm of social [...]
Ritesh on Jun 26th, 2007How do you define evolution of the internet ?
How do you define evolution on the internet ? When experts predict how the internet will evolve and what the future trends will be , what are the factors that are taken into account. 10 years back, no one could have predicted Social Networks and blogs , but look where we stand today. Evolution can [...]
Ritesh on May 28th, 2007Personalization – we are still getting there
Inspiration for this post : How much textual information we consume everyday Text makes the web. Those characters that are 1s and 0s in their stripped down version form the basis of what we call information. Right from websites to search, feeds to news, wikis to chat they are all text. Its unquestionable that people [...]
Ritesh on May 18th, 2007Is universal search the right answer ?
Google unveiled their universal search page for their search results, basically a page where you get more than just web pages, you get blogs, pics and videos even. But this is my question – is the concept of universal search even possible ? Penetration of user generated data into spaces like technology and entertainment have [...]
