Internet Economie
Keep the risk-taking spirit
The financial world is collapsing and several start-up are already taking measures to cope with the crisis. I am taking a few days of, outside of California and it’s a great time to think a little bit about it. I brought with me some books and among them “Once you’re good, twice you’re lucky” by [...]
Hyperlinks are the web
If you ask me what is the greatest thing in the web, I would say the hyperlinks! Actually, it’s the simplest thing, but it makes the difference between a sequence and a tree. A book is a sequence : you only have 1 direction (with 2 senses), links are bringing the other dimensions.
Google Chrome : securing the source of supplies!
It’s been the great buzz of the weekend : the “launch” of Google Chrome. Looking at it, it’s a pretty “logical” step for Google! Porter’s 5 forces help “strategist” assess the strength of a player in a given industry. One of them is “Bargaining Power of Suppliers“. As we’ve seen in the past Google strategy [...]
APIs : a strong barrier to entry
Despite most of people think, building APIs to access to your web-service, or more generaly, opening your application so that people can interract with it through other services is probably one of the key success factors. Twitter is the best example of this.
Google App Engine et la sedimentation
Il y a peu de chances que des visiteurs viennent des moteurs de recherche avec un titre pareil! Bref. La sédimentation, c’est pour moi le fait que, dans l’industrie technologique, l’innovation -et donc la création de valeur- semble résider dans la construction d’une couche d’abstraction supplémentaire au dessus de l’existant, pour se rapprocher du client. [...]
Google’s click strategy
I read an interesting point on Pierre Chappaz’s blog this morning. He refers to a Comscore study that showing that the number of clicks on the Google Ads network had decreased. At first -as Pierre does-, we might think that Google’s revenues are about to decrease. That might be true on the short term, but [...]
Google’s biggest asset
Google’s market capitalization is now well over $200Bn, and this will probably last. First, this is clearly the consequence of Google’s strategy to be actually internet’s infrastructure. Google and internet’s fates are more than ever related. Then, it’s also the valuation of Google’s biggest asset : it’s data!
Here comes winter
It’s been a week that the video “Here Comes another bubble” has been circulating through the web and blogs. Check the video :
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Amazon EC2 et S3
Amazon fournit de très nombreux outils pour webmasters. Parmi les plus “emblématiques” on trouve Simple Storage Service (S3) et Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2). Dans les deux cas, l’accent est mis sur la flexibilité et la qualité de l’infrastructure : vous etes chez Amazon!
Teen Blog platforms: mature?
It’s only Tuesday and yet, 2 very big blogging platform have been put for sale : LiveJournal which has actually already been sold to SUP and Skyblog, the biggest European blogging platform/network. Correct me if I am wrong but these platforms are a lot comparable and I am sure that we could get some lessons [...]
