Web 2.0
Is value in the Data?
O’Reilly made it clear when he “invented” the concept of Web 2.0 : he thought that the value was in the data collected by website and web-services. There is not a single day where I can’t see Data-Portability within my twitter feed, or within a source I’m following with Notifixio.us. The concept behind it is that the User Generated […]
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
App Engine, c’est le nouveau produit de Google qui vient directement marcher sur les plate-bandes d’Amazon EC2. Sans être un service de virtualisation, Google met à la disposition des developpeurs d’application web une “stack” qui va leur permettre de ne soucier plus que du developpement de leur code et plus de l’infrastructure qu’elle soit logicielle […]
Interact with webservices and websites
When you want to interact with another user, Internet offers a wide range of solutions : from email to forums, passing through Blogs, I.M. (MSN, Skype or even Twitter) and even data sharing websites(FlickR, Youtube), and many other products or innovations ar in the pipes of many start-ups (Seesmic = Forum + Video, Disqus = […]
Highrise
Pour moi, une des vraies nouveautés “business” du web 2.0, c’est la “démocratisation” des applications payantes en lignes a la demande, une sorte de “Software As A Service for the rest of us!”. Internet fourmille même des ces services qui ne sont plus des “sites webs” au sens media, mais de véritables applications qui vous […]
Pricing
Web entrepreneur who don’t want to fall in the free and “ad-based” business model are all facing the same problem : pricing! What should I charge my users and for what!First, there is almost no chance that you’ll service if you don’t provide at least a free base : here comes the famous freemium business […]
Invite or not invite?
One of the key concepts of Web2.0 is “permanent beta” : it means that your service/product is not finished yet… and it might never be done. As surprising as it sounds, one of the key advantages of online application and software is that you can deploy a new version of it seemlessly : most of […]
Business Model : Revenues and costs
It’s a common statement to say that web 2.0 business models are unproven. I partially agree : many services are built to be sold before even being profitable. However, I am always “surprised” when people talk only about revenues : a business model is about revenues AND costs.
Virality: independence from Google
With a market share of 60% in the US, and reaching 90% in my home country (France), and while many websites receive more than 50% of their visits from Search Engines, the independence from Google is a true concern : Jobetudiant.net is clearly very dependent from Google and might always be… Most of our new […]
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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