There is a new kid on the block called PayTextMe that lets you do PayPal style transactions with a mobile phone using SMS Text messages. But the thing that really impressed me was their Go-To Market Plan: Since, PayPal is their obvious big brother, they advertise using PayTextMe for your craigslist transactions (eat that EBay!) […]
Archives for February 2006
SOA Benefits
Jeff Nolan asks the following question on his blog: I’d love to hear your thoughts on what the benefits of a pure SOA application framework are. While the technical benefits are important, of equal interest are the actual end-user business benefits for companies investing in this technology. I predict that the biggest benefits of SOA […]
Killer app for Web 2.0
Kintan asks in his blog as to what is the killer app of Web 2.0. My bet is on Email. Any software company (enterprise or otherwise) that can successfully change our email experience will be a huge winner. And to the naysayers out there- it has already happened once. Hotmail is not what email started […]
You have to be Dog to know what good Dog food tastes like!
“Eat your own dog food”- that adage is not working for Microsoft or any other ‘big’ software company. The problem is that they do not have people that really appreciate good dog food i.e., Dogs. Our friend at Innovation Creators blogs about Google winning the race for Web 2.0 office tools. Yes, Google is definitely […]
More from TiE Web 2.0
Here is a detailed report on the Web 2.0 event. I would really like to know how many people understand Web 2.0 as would help understand where we are in the Hype Cycle. The consumer Web 2.0 space seems over-crowded. Or is the fundamental folly is to think in terms of looking for the next […]
Identity Management on Web 2.0
I wonder if the teenagers building websites today on myspace etc will regret their decisions 10 years from now. I surely would have regretted today if I had blogged on “some” of my experiences in grade school through college. I don’t want 10 years from now when I am up for a executive job to […]
Attended TiE Event last night on Web 2.0
The panel included Jeff Nolan, Ross Mayfield , Charlene Li and Jeff Clavier. I have attended similar events over the last year or so and I can see that their is clarity of views on Web 2.0 amongst the experts. The audience range from clueless to the Web-2.0-is-rich-UI-for-the-web crowd to a few people that really […]