Category — Services

Yesterday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the updated iPhone to the world. And while it was quite exciting, it wasn’t exactly a revolution. More like an evolution.

In the blogosphere there’s a lot of talk and buzz about this new phone - and yes, there are also critics. For me two thoughts come to mind. [Read more →]

“The mobile web is going to be the next big thing!”. I can’t count how many times I have heard someone say something like that. It’s like a religion being vigorously preached. But also a religion increasingly preached towards the already converted.

Why? Because its still too hard for many. The devices and setup procedures are still too hard for non-techies, and the pricing can be an absolute wilderness stopping many from trying it out. And these two reasons may be excactly why taking the mobile web for a spin offline might be a great idea. [Read more →]

Several blogs are reporting that eBay is starting to look less solid than before. That the giant online marketplace is at a crunch time in it’s history and need to decide on a new road ahead.

Some claim that eBay’s troubles are their own fault. I agree to some extend. But I also think that eBay has been overtaken by developments in net behaviour and that this is where the lesson lies. [Read more →]

In an age where the barriers of entry towards creating new media entitites (at least from a technological point-of-view) are becoming smaller and smaller, one could sit down and ask the question, what the role of public service media institutions should going forward, when we talk about new media?

In Denmark we have the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR). In the UK they have the BBC, and here Jeff Jarvis has come up with a suggestion, I think it’s rather interesting to look at in some more detail. [Read more →]

Crowdsourcing is a nice concept, but it can be hard to practice. Because while the idea of getting people engaged and collaboration on a project is nice and good, it takes an effort to get to critical mass and actually make thing happen.

The new web service The Point has decided to do something about this. They have developed a service that lets you sign up to do stuff IF enough people decide to do the same - and you decide what that number should be. And that’s a concept, I like. [Read more →]

Everytime media people are discussing the web in public, one of the things they discuss is whether to continue their bet on being destination sites or whether to let the content flow to the sites, where users hang out.

But what if you could do it the other way around? What if you could pull in what people do and say and become sort of a reverse hub for content and conversation? BBC is showing that you can indeed do that - and the concept is absolutely brilliant. [Read more →]