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2 reasons the web is getting exciting for the 3rd time

Paul Lomax — Thu, 31 May 2007 19:45:16 +0000

In late 2005/early 2006, the web industry got exciting as it went through this whole ’2.0′ thing – a revolution of sorts. At it’s height so many fantastically unique applications and websites were emerging, based on truly new techniques and technologies.

Then earlier this year, frankly, it got boring.

More sites than ever were being launched, but they were all so samey – nothing new, nothing interesting – just variations on a theme: local stuff, event planning, a social network for yet another niche, digg clones, sharing opinions, map mashups, and more bloody widgets than you could shake a stick at.

But in the last couple of days two things have really grabbed my attention.

They’re technologies really, but ones with really clear applications that I think will have a profound effect on the way web companies conduct their business, probably on a par with AJAX. I’m serious – this is really exciting stuff.

Google Gears - take your application offline (in a good way).
Facebook Platform - reach the social masses – the network is now a commodity.

I’ll post a some more in depth information soon, but in the meantime take a look and have a think about they could apply to your business. If you’re not a techie yourself but you have developers working for you, then get them to have a nosey for you.

If you’re not interested, then you’ve probably only just woken up to social networking – sorry, you missed the boat!

For help on web technology and business strategy, or just for somebody to bounce ideas off, do give me a call.

PS: Fairly unrelated to the web, but Microsoft Surface got me quite excited too…

Curriculum vitae as a tag cloud

Paul Lomax — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 12:43:37 +0000

I thought it might be interesting to see what tagcrowd.com made of my CV… (unfortunately wordpress removes the CSS so I’ve done a screen grab)

advertising (3) aquinas (2) brands (7) business (6) central (2) classifieds (3) closely (3) delivered (3) design (3) development (11) digital (5) director (5) editorial (4) established (5) freelance (2) in-house (3) including (5) internet (3) ipc (18) launch (4) london (5) ltd (6) magazine (3) management (18) market (2) marketing (2) media (5) month (2) nme (3) online (9) processes (2) project (5) promoted (2) proposed (3) sales (3) search (2) solutions (4) source (2) staff (4) stockport (3) strategy (4) studies (3) systems (6) team (8) technology (4) traffic (2) uk (10) web (7) websites (4) working (3)

created at TagCrowd.com

Mobile video to web widget service betas

Paul Lomax — Sun, 07 May 2006 18:59:38 +0000

Abazab are betaing a web-based messaging “widget” which allows anyone with a standard camera phone, PDA or computer to send video, photo and voice messages directly to any web page.

Any community site or personal web pages that can accept HTML snippets can use abazab. For example, a member of a community site can use her phone to send video of a concert as it’s happening back to her personal page, allowing her friends to share in that experience just moments after it occurred. Her friends can access that rich content from the widget through any web-enabled PC, Mac or PDA. In turn, they can post their own rich media responses via computer, PDA or camera phone. No software or plug-in is needed.

Press release at http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060504/sfth058.html?.v=54.