Web 2.0
The end of exits?
The 2k crisis almost killed the IPOs for tech startup. None of the Web2.0 big guys have been able to IPO since the installation of the SOX regulations (I am not making any judgment here). The current crisis which is refered as “liquidity crisis” is probably killing the “mergers and acquisitions”. What’s remaining to exit [...]
Enabling conversation
I am sorry to be writing less and less here. It’s just that the “Official Notifixious Blog” needs more attention (and more subscribers ;-)) for now. I will post less about Notifixious here, however! I had an interesting debate over Twitter a few days ago about whether Real-Time was a feature or not. In my [...]
Reversing the flow
The internet is broken! The information is not flowing. Actually, when you want to receive an information, you have to go grab it. Wanna know when I publish something new on l’Ouvre-Boite? Best case : you have to start your RSS reader, worst case, you have to check here. Wanna know your bank account balance? [...]
GetSatisfaction : better customer service
It’s no secret, even though many large companies tend to forget it (ATT, read this!), a good Customer Service is a key success factor for many startups. On the web, your users are alone, so you need to make sure they don’t feel alone : help them, answer their questions and listen to their suggestions [...]
Notifixious widget!
This week have been very busy, and not only because my girlfriend’s mother is at home! One of the things I’ve been working on a lot is the widget! I know that most of you guys are bloggers and that you don’t like RSS : you’ll love the Notifixious’s widget!
Notifixious use case #2 : monitoring search results!
It’s just the begining for Notifixious and I am already happy to see that some people are making great feature request and are using Notifixious in ways I would not have expected : monitoring search results!
Most of “modern” search engines are now providing RSS/Atom feeds for their results, such as Summize (now Twitter Search), Technorati, [...]
Notifixious is up… and running!
Everything is in the title So, yes, after a few weeks of silence, Notifixious‘ new version is now online, up and running : go check out, you do not need invites anymore!
The users from the early days will notice that we removed some functionalities. That’s true, but 1) less is more and 2) it gives [...]
Why email only?
I’m sorry I have not been very present for the last few weeks. As some of you already know, I had to take a short trip back to France for visa matters. Anyway, I’ll be back soon! While here I took some time to think about Notifixious and how useful it could be and here [...]
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.
