By Joe on April 17, 2009
Digg’s DiggBar and VideoEgg’s new Twig are clobbering each other in the ongoing battle of web augmentation services, a class of user driven services.
In Attack of The Frames: VideoEgg Introduces The Twig Ad Bar, Erick Schonfeld blasts the new Twig Ad Bar and DiggBar for not playing well together. And well he should.
TechCrunch authors Mike [...]
Posted in User Driven, Web Augmentation | Tagged Digg, DiggBar, Erick Schonfeld, MG Eiger, Mike Arrington, netizen developer, TechCrunch, Twig, User Driven, VideoEgg, web augmentation |
By Joe on March 1, 2009
There is a low grade market war going on in web augmentation services, part of a huge shift in how developers and users perceive the web.
The Web used to be about pages, then applications, followed by mashups. Today the interesting action is in augmentation.
The leading edge of the Web first moved from static pages to [...]
Posted in User Driven, User Driven Services, Web Augmentation | Tagged Adaptive Blue, APIs, Azigo, Glue, kynetx, netizen developer, open systems, RemindMe, User Driven, User Driven Services, web augmentation, webhooks |
By Joe on February 8, 2009
Doc Searls recently brought my attention to a White Paper by Phil Windley, about his company, Kynetx. It does a good job explaining the thinking behind their architecture, and raises some questions that, for me, challenge some underlying assumptions and business choices.
Problem Domain
The distributed nature of the web is a big part of its [...]
Posted in Identity, Intention Economy, Personal Datastore, ProjectVRM, User Driven Search, Vendor Relationship Management | Tagged ad blockers, Adaptive Blue, data rights management, Doc Searls, Glue, information cards, kynetx, MyDex, open source, open standards, OpenID, Personal Datastore, Phil Windley, privacy, r-button, rbutton, relationship services, search map, Skype, structured browsing, SwitchBook, User Driven Search, User Driven Services, VRM, web augmentation, Yahoo Toolbar |
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