Other staff and inspections indicate that Google is not immune from the economic realities of prose. Nevertheless, a factor in the economy is cold, if the fact that former Vice President Al Gore to speak at an event in Google Earth next month.
Oceanographer Sylvia Earle
Gore is set to join Google, Eric Schmidt, Director-General, and Marissa Mayer, vice president of search and user experience, and in the case on February 2, in California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, the newly established aquarium, a planetarium and a museum of natural history. But his name is still one of the outset that this case.
This man is oceanographer Sylvia Earle, Explorer in Residence at National Geographic Society and founder detailed search.
Hmm - Aquarium, an oceanographer and a high level policy makers are interested in the fate of our planet. Perhaps the ad Google, working with maps Ocean 3D Google Earth?
Invitation to the event, which is only that the announcement of the "next big step in the development of Google Earth."
Google Earth and Google Maps and to show satellite views of Earth and its sights can be reversed to the sky through Google Sky.
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Al Gore is the leading event on Google: Google Ocean?
Wakoopa: the most frequently used applications, 2008
Wakoopa, a social network for fans of the software, released a list of frequently used applications to 2008 on the basis of its members.
Wakoopa together not only the most popular Windows, Mac, and Web applications, but he also determined that the newcomers have shown prolific growth during 2008.
Two important points to note before viewing the results:
1. Wakoopa is a relatively small community, which consists mainly of tech fanatics and early adopters. Statistics reflect that.
2. Annexes referred to are not necessarily the most frequently visited applications, and those people who spent the most time-intensive use, that is, those with the highest level of participation of the user.
PC
In Windows, it is not surprising to see Firefox and Internet Explorer as the top two most used applications. Google Chrome is the only new release was made to the list, with an indication of an extremely impressive growth since its release in September. Chromium, however, continue to sit for the Opera in terms of general use, while in Apple Safari, seem to have been retained, at least on Windows.
The most popular new applications in 2008 was an instant messaging client Digsby with a steady growth throughout the year. Games such as Fallout 3, Left 4 Dead, and Trackmania all showed positive growth, albeit primarily at the time of their release, with growth from the rapidly cooling.
Mac
Once again, we see Firefox and Safari leading to the Mac, closely followed by the chat client Adium. iTunes is a surprising lack of the most used applications list for Windows (in fact, no media player, did so), but in OS X, iTunes is the platform the most popular media player, landing in fourth place in the list. VLC and QuickTime to follow in respectable 6 th and 7 th place.
Mail, Mac e-mail client, is still popular in the 5 th place, is impressive, given the rapid growth of e-mail clients such as Gmail. One common application for Windows and Mac lists World Warcraft; clearly the game as "Mac and PC."
With respect to new applications, Mac welcomed many excellent applications in 2008. Desktop Media Player Plex showed impressive acquisitions, followed by the Pro-tweeters twitter client Tweetdeck. While still in private beta, cross-platform media player Boxee was wonderfully successful so far, and that will continue to look after its publication in early 2009. Other newcomers include socio-browser Cruz and recently released a social media tool Eventbox, very creative social applications in their own rights.
Mac to PC
There are a number of significant differences in use between Mac and PC applications. First, the exclusion of any web development tools Windows can provide a list of web developers preference for other platforms: OS X and Linux. The most notable missing from the list are the Mac word processors and desktop publishing tools, but TextMate and Adobe Photoshop's appearance confirms the general preference among the ads for the Mac as a platform.
Another difference is the number of media players on the Mac list, but no mention of a PC - perhaps another indication that the computer is used primarily for its business and office applications. In addition, it is interesting to see the iPhone Simulator to pretend on the top 10 list for the new Mac, but made no mention of Windows. Clearly, Mac users are the main source of iPhone developers.
Web
Ten most used web applications are not a surprise. Facebook highest ranks, beating heavyweights Gmail, Google Search, Wikipedia, and YouTube. Gmail is only a web email client that the top ten list, underscoring its popularity over other web email services, particularly in the early adopters and tech-minded people. The most significant appearance on the Internet most of the list of FriendFeed, ranking higher than both MySpace and Flickr; obviously 2008 was a great year for FriendFeed.
Summary
The biggest cross-platform game winners from the sector, with Spore and World of Warcraft as showing the growth and sustainability. While it is clear that it is not surprising that in Mozilla Firefox leading desktop applications on both platforms, rival browser Chrome can show strong growth, especially since the Linux and OS X versions of the browser are released.
Internet, Facebook using reigns supreme. Social network user interaction levels striking. With 2.6 billion minutes spent on Facebook every day, more than 50% of users at the entrance of the day and 140 million active users, it's easy to see why Facebook is the most used Wakoopa Web applications. However, in spite of Facebook in the ranking at number 1, then Google, which is to be crowned leader of the network overall, with four of the top five most used applications on the Internet.
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What's Next After Web 2.0
As the global financial crisis has gradually got worse over the past few weeks, I thought, what does this mean for the Internet. ReadWriteWeb as a publication focuses on technology - web products and trends - rather than business and VC happenings. Thus, with the exception of one of our feature writers Bernard Lunn, who has written many reports on how businesses can survive this period, we are usually kept outside the credit crunch discussion until now.
But we are clear now that the financial problems of the world will have little impact on web technology, which led. In fact, it looks like we have arrived at one of those giant inflexion points - where one Web era usurped by others.
Editor's Note: Looking back in 2008 there were about ReadWriteWeb positions who do not receive the attention we believe they deserve - whether because of the time, competing news, etc. Thus, in the year-end series under the name Redux, we 're the restoration of some of these hidden gems. This is one of them, we hope you enjoy (re) read it!
Of course, this happened when the latest Web 2.0 was coined in the O'Reilly Media in about 2004. Fortunately, not long before that ReadWriteWeb was born (early 2003). So ReadWriteWeb has been documenting Web 2.0 ever since. Over the past couple of years, we focused on other, perhaps more important, trends - Semantic Web, recommendation technologies, web sites becoming web services, wireless Internet and much more.
Welcome Return of Innovation
While we will continue to see a successful Web 2.0 to grow and prosper, perhaps - social networks, mashups, User Generated Content, etc. - It is now time for innovation. I'm not saying anything revolutionary there, because the old cliche that technical innovation is thriving in times of recession. Nat Torkington from O'Reilly Radar put this in the context of Web 2.0 in recent years:
"During the boom, companies direct development and occupy great talent at best evolutionary improvements over the state of technology. Companies great chasers of new things, but not to make great new things. Recession means technologists cease to be paid a huge amount to duplicate the work of others. The Great Tech Bust It Two gave us 37Signals, Flickr and del.icio.us, and there is a strong argument to be noted that many companies spent the next six years chasing that they have created. "
Thus, we can expect to welcome a return to web innovation in 2008/09, in line with what Flickr and 37Signals created back in the early days of Web 2.0. Nevertheless, Internet entrepreneurs will need to make adjustments to the economic climate. Many have noted that the new focus on the bottom line of your business is crucial that we examine below. But perhaps equally important, as pointed out by Nat, there is an opportunity to take advantage of open source technologies and cheaper cloud computing infrastructure.
Yes, Tighten your belt, but the Open Your Minds, too ...
In recent weeks, some VCs have been preaching high belt tightening as the main response to the economy. More than a few people expressed cynicism about the recommendation, subject to advertising and party brosaniem days of Web 2.0. New York VC Fred Wilson wrote a post today, partly in response to a comment Bernard left his blog in which he defends advice he and other VCs sacrificed after the financial crisis was going. In principle, that the consultation was to batten down hatches, cut costs, and Fred said, "to act responsibly and make sure that we all survive to fight another day."
This is a common sense of all the recommendations, particularly with regard to Web 2.0 was mostly on consumer applications. I am certainly not an economist, but in the sense that the tight credit market consumer spending will lead to a reduction - which have a significant impact on consumer Web applications, as well as the trickle to other parts of the ecosystem.
But I would really like to see engineers, entrepreneurs and VCs to take a long-term connection with the crisis, and. Sramana Mitra wrote a great post on the Forbes describing some of the possibilities for innovation. The "Open letter to the leaders of Silicon Valley", Sramana first gave some information that led to a new Web 2.0, and then with the objective to create technology for education, health and social welfare. As an example, she wrote about the opportunities in health and education:
"As the smart-phone movement marches, led by Steve Dzhobs' iPhone, we can not create seamless bridges between doctors, patients and insurance companies, which may reduce the $ 250 billion expenditure on health administration?
And on the Internet, we can not create a body of standardized content and methodology for teachers of all of us - and the world - that includes parents in the process and involved children through "Edutainment", exactly the same way, MySpace and "World of Warcraft" are involved children? "
Tim O'Reilly was on a similar mission, since its presentation in the Web 2.0 Expo earlier this year, for a beginning to address the "big problems". Its main idea is to "work that matters."
What's more ... Let us know in the comments!
We ReadWriteWeb been covering the major Web-based applications and things like health 2.0 this year. But we have only scratched the surface, just like most novice Internet companies. Since the problems in the economy are beginning to affect the world of technology, we will re-double our efforts in that document, we hope, is the exciting new era of web innovation. There are strict time ahead, but equally there opportunities.
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The revival of "Web-TV
One of the most obvious trend this month, Consumer Electronics Show (CES), has been the proliferation of flat panel TVs connected to the Internet. Almost every major producer of television shows on a web-TV integration, including states that the proposed Yahoo Widgets, the social network MySpace, and Netflix is built directly into the TV itself. This is not a "Web-TV in recent days, but an entirely new way to web-enable a living room. In this year of the "TV".
This is not your parents' Web TV
Remember Internet TV? He was still around, believe it or not, but now rebranded MSN TV. With a set-top box and keyboard, you can browse the Web from the comfort of your sofa. In some reason, he did not withdraw. From personal experience, after some initial oohs and aahs our household quickly bored with our Web TV box. If you use the service, too, you probably felt the same.
Why not? Perhaps people do not want to use the keyboard in their living room. Or maybe he just started early. Its heyday in the 1990's, when there was not, as far as compelling to watch. This was long before the launch of sites like YouTube and Hulu. Because of this and more, web-TV and does not become a revolution, that it would be.
But today we see a new attempt to restore order to bring the Internet to the living room. " Instead of a Web-TV, we see instead are TVs being called "connected televisions."
New Connection TV
Without a set-top box, the new "connected" TVs are all the Web components that allow built right in. This is evident, this is what will be the basis for their success at this time ... If you think that advertising.
One of the best integration includes Netflix deal with Korea's LG Electronics, Inc.Their partnership that will deliver a new line of high-DEF TV sets with Netflix service built directly into the set. With 12,000 titles to choose when you start, the TV is one that necessarily become very popular, if a company can get the right price.
Other manufacturers, including TV Samsung, Sony, LG, and VIZIO sets presented with Yahoo Widget integration of technology into their products. These widgets do not just give Yahoo content like sports and news, but rather to deliver a platform on which widgets can be built. He said Yahoo, their platform allows developers to expand its "brand, services and content to new users, creating a TV Widgets to help Yahoo Widget Engine.
Yahoo Widget Engine, now on TV
Yahoo Widget Engine evolved from Konfabulator platform, product, who made some of the first Web-based applications that are floating on your desktop computer. These widgets allow you quick access to news and information, which you can see, not to leave open the browser window.
Now, the same Web widgets can be moved over to digital television. Widget Engine provides entry-level framework and Widget Development Kit (WDK), which allows developers to code is constrained by the hardware capabilities of these new connected TV. In addition, Yahoo Widget Channel API will provide access to Internet technology, including in the Konfabulator JavaScript and XML, and HTML.
There are already several Yahoo! TV widgets are available now, and several more have been announced in the near future. In the section widget with Showtime, Netflix, Blockbuster demand, CinemaNow, The New York Times, USA Today Sports, CBS Fantasy Football, Rallypoint Fantasy Sports, Acedo Funspot Games, Flickr, and, of course, Yahoo (news, weather, Finance and video card), have been announced.
Chatter from the TV
Before we forget: there will also have a twitter widget. This widget could be just the beginning of a whole new area of interactive television. As we have seen on the channel CNN, some journalists are now using twitter to gather information in real time on the events of the audience. Imagine how many more people could participate if the chatter has been included on the television itself. In addition to news, other shows could use twitter for entertainment purposes, which allows live back channel, where you can tweet your thoughts or questions about the content you're viewing.
MySpace Brings social networks on TV
Among the widgets available today, Yahoo announced eBay widget, CBS Entertainment widget, widgets, and MySpace. This is MySpace, which has received the most press, because it would allow two-way interaction with the social network and friends while watching TV.
MySpace widget user can receive dynamic updates to friends, read and reply to messages, browse friends profiles, photos, and requests, and see the status and mood updates. It takes a single act of watching TV and turns it into something that could be more social experience. One can easily imagine a group of friends together view shows messages to each other throughout the viewing.
MySpace widget, like several others, will be ad supported. This raises the question if these new widgets can be a source of advertising revenue for producers. As more and more people time shift TV shows for later viewing, skipping through the videos with the remote control of your TV shows' advertising revenues were affected. Now, TV networks can easily create and deliver widgets for its most popular shows, giving fans interact with each other when they are viewed as a forum for numerous TV, as the board found on the internet today.
Of course, we could get ahead of ourselves here that last idea - nothing like this, it was announced. Nevertheless, we think it will be a good idea. (Who would not want to engage in lively backchannel ABC "Lost", for example? What's the smoke monster?)
Will connect the TV success?
Will the new Internet-connected TVs work with Web-TV "is not? It is possible. On the one hand, this time we do not simply transfer the Internet in its entirety in the living room, where many people already save their netbooks and notebooks for quick search Google or check e-mail while watching TV.
Instead, the TV experience to expand on the web technologies - which you can use or not use as you wish. If you just rest, you can simply enjoy a normal passive TV experience. However, for some events - the favorite shows, sports, news - you can interact with other users using the widget over social media, like MySpace and twitter. Other widgets, as news and entertainment listings will also be convenient ways to get a bite size information without pulling the computer.
The key point here, there is a new TV that the widgets do not interrupt, that people think of as "TV experience." Explains Genevieve Bell, an anthropologist and director of the group of users in the Intel Digital Home group of people have very strong bonds of their TVs. "Any attempt to add the Internet should be simple and not to interfere with the practices and behaviors of users enjoy." What does it mean that she said that the interaction should be done with conventional remote control - no keyboard or computer screen web browser.
The only question that remains whether people will buy a new TV set only widget? Probably not. This is a fun addition, but not a major breakthrough technologies such as HDTV. However, if you buy a new TV, in any event, a TV can certainly make your list as one of the sets for consideration.
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Top 10 Web Platform 2008 ( 2 )
Continuing from Top 10 Web Platform 2008 ( 1 )
6. Android
Google open mobile platform OS, Android, an explosion at the scene this year as rival Apple iPhone closed platforms. Google spent a lot of time this year, encouraging developers to create applications for Android - and rewarding them for the cold, cash from the Android developer "(see our previous coverage here). This has led many third-party applications and numerous shops App. The first Android phone - "T-Mobile G1 with Google" - was launched in September, followed by a second Blackberry-phone, as in December. Android Apps show steady growth, and we can expect that the ramp in 2009 as more phones come to market.
Android went open source in October, which has set Google apart from Apple managed platform. While the iPhone is our main platform in 2008, Google has the opportunity to challenge on the mantle in the next year.
7. Amazon Web Services
The leading edge of the Amazon Web Services stack was first presented to the world in 2006, and it continues to be impressive in 2008 - albeit with a more practical orientation. Amazon Web Services essentially became more mature, offering v'08 and shored their support services.
Amazon Web Services, headed by Simple Storage Service (S3) and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), was the first major cloud computing platform, and today his credentials to the backend of many beginners. Earlier this year, we noted that Amazon Web Services now account for more than the capacity of all the Amazon global websites combined. Then, in April, Amazon has announced a prize to support the package to pay for some of its basic infrastructure services. S3, EC2 and simple queue service (SQS) each received a gold and a silver level of treatment. In October, Amazon EC2 announced that comes out of beta, and that it now supports Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft SQL Server (for example, goes for Linux distributions and OpenSolaris). At the same time suggested that the Amazon Service Level Agreement for EC2 and promised the availability of 99.95%.
8. Live Mesh
Live Mesh service launched in April, as the invitation-only "Technology Preview". This is Microsoft attempt to link all our data together. Live Mesh to synchronize data between multiple devices (currently PCs only Windows, but theoretically it will extend to mobile and other devices in the future), as well as on the web desktop that exists in the cloud. It can synchronize data between devices used by individual users, as well as the establishment of a joint space for multiple users.
In fact, Live Mesh is a set of channels (which can be expressed as ATOM, JSON, FeedSync, RSS, WB-XML, or POX). Each piece of data entered into a user's Mesh - be it a file, folder, message, the user authorization, a new device - is provided as part of the information in the channel. Forage and then synchronize with other devices that are part of the Mesh following rules on how to sync each particular piece of information (for example, file synchronization with the users May 1, 2 and 3, while the B file may be said synchronization Users 1 and 2).
9. Fire Eagle
Earlier this year, Yahoo announced that closed beta period of its location platform Fire Eagle has ended and that the service is open to all. A number of high-profile services, including Brightkite, Movable Type, Dopplr and Pownce introduced Fire Eagle through the numerous Yahoo API, provides access to the service.
As we wrote on Fire Eagle, when the beta was first announced, it provides an API kits in five different programming languages, he received permission protocols are available for web, desktop and mobile applications, and is using open standards community built oAuth to facilitate faster, more secure mashups. Thus, the platform is the mobilization of the universal open standards.
Note: See also our coverage of Yahoo! Internet Location Platform, the collection of geographical depth based API.
10. Mozilla Weave
This year, Mozilla Weave announced a new Web platform that will keep users' browser metadata in a cloud conditions for access anywhere. Weave is a "basis for the integration of services, which will, in accordance with Mozilla", focus on finding ways to improve the efficiency of the users of Firefox, increase user control over personal information, as well as provide new opportunities for developers to create innovative Internet experience. "
The basic idea is that browser metadata (things stored in your profile as Firefox bookmarks, history, RSS-feeds, the user names and passwords, etc.), pushed into a cloud, and stored by Mozilla. These data are available for users where they are online, and users can share information with friends, relatives or third parties, while retaining control over how, when and if the information is shared.
Was not to make Top 10
There were many other Web-based platform, which impressed us during the year. Google browser Chrome is very promising (but we felt it was too early to say at the beginning of 10), Google Gears helped take the world offline, online, meebo created intriguing platform based on its core capabilities chat, Bungee Labs has developed a great platform for mashups, Salesforce. com has been a strong year again, and many others. It seems that all major Internet companies now have a platform that is ideal for developers and users alike. Check out our previous posts list of 10 prospective web-based platform for other examples.
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Your Web 2.0 applications is a security threat
In the world of IT, this poses a threat to security: Your password is insecure, unexpected e-mail attachments, Web surfers careless move to a malicious URL or unauthorized software installed on your computer. Today's I.T. There are many tools for most of these threats, ranging from firewalls and spam filters to deal with malicious software and application controls. Now they will soon be something more: a new application management engine, which is specifically after the on and off the applications and Web 2.0 social networking widget.
Introducing the ACE: Tool to close Web 2.0
The company called FaceTime Communications, based in Belmont, California, recently introduced its new inspection and classification technology called "ACE", which simply means the application of motor control. This technology is patented security network is capable of scanning and detection of more than 1400 Web 2.0 applications, and more than 50000 social networking widgets distributed sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Orkut.
Search rogue applications on the network, there is nothing new for him, but interestingly, some of FaceTime ACE technology is its focus on search technology, which often fly under the radar of IT: Web-based applications.
The danger of Web 2.0 Over the Firewall
As we noted earlier, this inability to adapt to the changing needs of their users, are now younger and more digitally savvy than ever before, led to a lot of self-providing easy-to-use applications found on the Internet. These funds could include anything from Facebook groups in autonomous applications like SharePoint-Lite team found on the sites Google.
Of course, when users are becoming their own IT department, they unknowingly introducing risks previously hardened network infrastructure. Just because a web application is very easy to work, not to make it safe for business use. As users to upload and share files via the sensitivity of these unapproved backchannels or business-related calls in an Internet chat chat rooms, they can be not only means that their company's data at risk, they also may be different to break the enforcement of laws as well.
The difficulty of monitoring the web-applications in the enterprise
To this end, the challenge is keeping pace with the flurry of new Web applications, there and close those that pose a threat. An independent study commissioned by FaceTime Communications, 62% of respondents said that there were eight or more Internet applications that are installed on their company network - 300% more than in the first study conducted in 2005. Furthermore, respondents indicated that about one-third of their users downloaded applications they would like to use - regardless of company policy. These applications are a combination of applications for business and those used for personal purposes.
I.T. traditionally struggled to close many of today's Web-based applications because they are not strictly based on the browser. Knowing that their acceptance rate depends on for the set-back to the company board, many of the applications, make sure that they can not be blocked by URL signature. Applications can also masquerade as a HTTP, FTP, SMTP, and Telnet traffic while exhibiting evasive techniques that help them penetrate the company's firewall and to avoid detection of the current crop Unified threat management systems.
What FaceTime in ACE, while more than 1400 web-based applications can be determined, and even more social networking widgets can be protected, too. These applications can be opened and closed, regardless of port, protocol, or evasion techniques they use. In addition, software developers ACE Kit (SDK) enables third-party solution providers the opportunity to expand their victims, to help its customers manage IM, peer-to-peer file sharing, social networking, Web 2.0, voice-over - IP, anonymizers, IPTV, multimedia, games, virtual worlds, and Unified Communications.
What does this mean for the enterprise 2.0
If the FaceTime ACE or other similar technologies are the foundation of IT tools in an explosion in Web 2.0 for business applications, and this trend is typically referred to as Enterprise 2.0, can be quite a blow. The only enterprise 2.0 applications that will be successful, given that the scenario will be those who have worked with IT - Administrators from the outset to ensure their safety. Application depends on a number of companies breaking the rules for users, however, will not be lucky. Maybe in a hidden, may not have been a great business model after all.
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Top 10 Web platforms 2008 ( 1 )
2008 has witnessed the emergence of new web-based platform, including several large built using open standards. In this final installment of our series of top products of 2008, we selected the top 10 web platforms in the year.
We wrote a lot of time on the platforms for the Web. Web-based platform can be as simple API, like the one provided to twitter, which allows outside developers to use in the company's data. This may be the software and services, such as Amazon Web Services. It can also be full-fledged development platform, such as the iPhone SDK and Adobe AIR. In any case, the platform on the Internet is let people build on top of another product, so we believe that the appropriate way to close our Top Web Products series.
This is the tenth and final post in our series of products beginning in 2008.
Note: Unlike some of our previous lists, we tried to order it under the influence in 2008.
1. iPhone SDK
ReadWriteWeb named Apple, as our BigCo 2008, thanks largely to iPhone platform. IPhone really reached the main audience in 2008, when the 3G iPhone was launched in July, much recognition. But more significant than the phone itself was a simultaneous launch of the applications Apple Store. There were 552 applications for the start and at the time of writing, this had risen to more than 10,000 applications. So in less than 6 months, the number and variety of iPhone Apps has increased significantly. Indeed, it is a load of salt iPhone version of its web-based application - the eventual confirmation of a successful web-based platform.
For many years, now all (including us), it was forecast that next year will be that mobile Internet over the weekend. 2008 Finally, this year - and this is mainly due to the development of the platform iPhone.
2. OpenSocial
OpenSocialNovember was the first anniversary of Google OpenSocial, an open API framework for the social networks and Web sites. During 2008 OpenSocial has received a lot of traction, statistics released in November said that OpenSocial has reached 675 M registered users at the time and 7500 applications.
Most impressive is the list of organizations that have signed on OpenSocial, and actively developing applications for it. This is a high Powered list includes MySpace, AOL, Bebo, hi5, LinkedIn, Nina, Orkut, Yahoo!. Of course, there is still no OpenSocial is Facebook and Microsoft, but at the rate of OpenSocial is ramping up - they may not need them.
3. Adobe AIR
As we noted in our power BigCo of 2008, it was a year in which Adobe's' Rich Internet App strategies have some juicy fruit, with many strong Apps released, which were built using AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime). AIR is a platform that makes it easy to build attractive Internet connected applications that live outside the browser. Last year, we have noted its potential - the air is called the "Apollo" for the greater part of its beta - but in February 2008, AIR was officially opened, and soon we saw a lot of excellent applications emerge. For example, check:
* 6 Adobe AIR Apps checks
* 10 Adobe AIR Apps Bloggers love
* Adobe AIR comes to work: 6 Apps for the Corporate Desktop
We called it our No. 3 Web platform was because he breathed new life into the Rich Internet Apps this year.
4. Twitter API
The importance of twitter in the API for its success this year can not be overstated. The number and diversity of twitter reader customers only surprisingly, not to mention the many other ways to chirp data that is used (for example, e-commerce goals). I must say that twitter there is much idle and many technical failures during the entire year, but despite this he continues to expand its API service. As co-founder Biz Stone chirp ReadWriteTalk said in an interview last September:
"The API was, perhaps most important, or maybe even no doubt the most important thing that we have done with chatter. This has allowed us, in the first place, so that the service is very simple and create a simple API, so that developers can build on top of our infrastructure and to develop ideas that are better than our ideas ...
Consequently, API, which is easily 10 times more traffic than on a site that was very important to us. We've seen some amazing work built on top of it from a tiny mobile applications such as SMS, which has just a timer to set a reminder for the SMS to call mom or something like that to a more detailed visual Rest of chatter as twittervision. com, which shows an animated map of the world, and that makes all the world to twitter. ... [Schebetat] API really was a great success for us, and that is what we want to continue to focus our efforts on, looking forward. "
5. Facebook Platform
Facebook is still becoming more popular throughout 2008, reaching 140 million active users by the end of the year and is growing at a rate of 600,000 users each day. For this reason, we gave him an honorable mention in our best BigCo 2008 positions.
But in terms of platform Facebook, as a whole, we believe that the company's Google OpenSocial pushed him in 2008. As we wrote in our mid-year review, Facebook Platform: The pomp Revisited, when the Facebook platform debuted last year, was touted as the next big thing. You no longer needed to attract an audience to your app. Instead, your application can be delivered in one of the largest audiences across the web. And not just delivered, and injected into the massive social network. But while it started great, it turns out, is not so simple. Three main issues emerged:
1. Technical: Should be OK, just a teaser that leads users to your site, or it should be replicated and have full functionality?
2. Business: If e.g. The New York Times building Facebook app, it will be their economic (since there are few income of Facebook)?
3. Provider costs: Are there any pay for Facebook to support the platform? As a business with great value, Facebook need to maximize profits.
Despite these problems, Facebook platform shows no signs of slowing, and many startups have ported their Web applications for Facebook. It could not be more than a bee's knees, but it is still a very effective platform to launch use.
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The best 100 products of 2008
In this post we did megalist, 100 best products of 2008. There is certainly much more than 100 web products, so There are several excellent they are not included in our megalist.
Note that the seven products, has made it more than one of our top 10 lists, so we noted that when this is done, and added several new products that just missed the cut somewhere along the line.
Top 100 products
This list is in alphabetical order, in the category noted next to each item.
* Adobe AIR; platforms
* Afrigator, International
* Amazon Web Services; platforms and enterprise *
* Android; platforms and digital life *
* App Store (iPhone); Digital Life
* Basecamp; Enterprise
* BBC iPlayer; Digital Life
* BlueOrganizer (AdaptiveBlue); Semantic Web
* BooRah; Semantic Web
* Brightkite; Mobile Internet, the most promising in 2009
* ChaCha; Alternative Search Engines
* Chrome; runner-up platforms
* Cooliris; consumer and Alternative Search Engines
* Merge (Atlassian); Enterprise
* Dapper; RSS / Syndication and MashupAds for the Semantic Web *
* Digg; runner-up consumer
* DimDim; Enterprise
* Dopplr, International
* Facebook platform, platform
* Faroo; Alternative Search Engines
* FeedBurner; RSS / Syndication
* FFtoGo; Mobile Internet
* Fire Eagle; platforms
* Firefox; consumer
* Flickr; runner-up consumer
* Force.com (Salesforce); Enterprise
* FreshBooks, International
* FriendFeed; RSS / Syndication
* Fring; Mobile Internet
* Gnip; RSS / Syndication
* Google Apps; Enterprise
* Maps Google; Mobile Internet
* Google Reader; RSS / Syndication
* Google Reader RSS Subscriber Count Greasemonkey scripts; RSS / Syndication
* Hakia; Semantic Web
* Hulu; digital life and consumer *
* Imeem; runner-up consumer
* IntenseDebate; consumer
* IPhone SDK; platforms
* I. TV; Mobile Internet
* KallOut; Alternative Search Engines
* Kiva; Real World
* Kosmix; Alternative Search Engines
* Last.fm; consumer
* LinkedIn; Enterprise
* Live Mesh; platforms
* Maxthon, International
* Mednar; Alternative Search Engines
* Meebo; consumer
* MindTouch Deki; Enterprise
* Mint; Real World
* Mixi, International
* Mogulus; consumer
* Mozilla Weave; platforms
* MySpace; runner-up consumer
* Netbook; Digital Life
* Netflix; Digital Life
* Netvibes, International
* Nina; consumer
* Nokia E71; Digital Life
* NYTimes iPhone App, Mobile Internet
* OpenCongress; Real World
* OpenSocial; platforms
* Open Calais; Semantic Web
* Opera Mini / Mobile, Mobile Internet
* Pandora; Mobile Internet
* PatientsLikeMe; Real World
* PlayStation 3, Digital Life
* PlanetEye; Real World
* Postrank (ex-AideRSS); RSS / Syndication
* Powerset; Semantic Web
* Qik; consumer
* Quintura; Alternative Search Engines
* Remember The Milk, International
* Rudder; Real World
* SearchMonkey; Semantic Web
* SeeqPod; Alternative Search Engines
* Sermo; Real World
* Shazam; Mobile Internet
* Snackr; RSS / Syndication
* Songbird; Digital Life
* Surf Canyon; Alternative Search Engines
* Taggalaxy.de; Alternative Search Engines
* TeachStreet; Real World
* Techmeme; runner-up RSS / Syndication
* TripIt; Semantic Web
* Schebetat; Mobile Internet and consumer; twitter API, the platform *
* Twitterfeed; RSS / Syndication
* Acquisitions; Semantic Web
* UStream; runner-up consumer
* Wii Fit; Digital Life
* Wild Apricot; Real World
* Wordpress; Enterprise
* Wuala, International
* Shin, International
* Yahoo! Pipes; RSS / Syndication
* Yapta; Real World
* YouTube; runner-up consumer
* Zemanta; Semantic Web
* Zoho; Enterprise and International; Best LittleCo *
* The products in more than one list. There were seven of them: Amazon Web Services, Android, Cooliris, Dapper, Hulu, giggle, Zoho.
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Google gives and takes Away: Google Video, notebook, catalog search and Dodgeball close
A number of Google services has just announced that they were going to close. Google Video team announced that it will be closed by adding in a few months, while Google Notebook team announced that it stop the development of (the service will continue to function, however). According to Danny Sullivan, Google is also the closure of Jaiku, twitter type of micro-blogging service, which was bought by Google, before it even started, but lingered in the invite-only so far. Directory Google Search, which made the trade directory for search, will also be closed as soon as possible.
Another, relatively few projects that are currently closed, so Mashup Editor, which was based on the Google App Engine, and did not leave a very limited private beta.
Will you miss these services?
It will be closed by Google Google Video is not surprising, given the fact that Google has its own YouTube is much more popular. Google Search Directory is likely to miss only a very few users. However, we are very sad to see Notebook Google "(one of our favorite Firefox addons), Jaiku, and Dodgeball go. These services have huge potential - and much remains untapped as Jaiku and Dodgeball remained almost unchanged after they were acquired by Google.
Nevertheless, the current economic climate, perhaps even to make a highly profitable company Google, a focus on its core assets. None of the services that are currently open now a lot of users, and probably brought very little, not profit.
And also: Changes in technology and Recruiting
Shutting down these services is only part of the Google ads at this time. In addition, Google announced that it is phasing out almost all of its contracts with outside contractors and vendors to provide a set of services Google. Google also will reduce 100 positions internally.
On the engineering side, Google is finalizing its offices in Austin, Texas, Trondheim, Norway, and Lulea, Sweden. The company asked to staff who work there to move to Mountain View.
With GrandCentral?
One service line-up with Google, we have always wondered about GrandCentral this - another service that was acquired before it is even the public. Just as some of the services that Google now closes, GrandCentral never came out of their invite-only after the acquisition of Google. The fact that it is not closed today, however, leads us to believe that Google still have plans for the service.
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