The consulting and Digital Marketing Company Multiplica just released a new study comparing source of revenues and business models from Top 100 web 2.0 sites today. Multiplica analyzed companies like Youtube, Myspace, Facebook, and Wikipedia Among others.
The study gives a pretty good picture about today’s web 2.0 business models and some ideas on way forward that I would like to share. continue reading »
According to Reuters, Telefonica just bought Jajah, the VOIP service provider, for 200 Millions dollars. Jajah currently has around 15 million subscribers that can make cheaper phone calls on their landline and mobile phones via its site. There are seven key points for understanding Telefonica´s strategic move.
Predicting the future is always a rather challenging task. There is one thing about predicting the future….it is so hard to predict.
Mike Elgan makes a great top ten list with the worst predictions by technology pundits for this 2009. Most of them where too vague considering the existing trends happening at the end of this year.
Check the top ten list below
Google’s Android OS is growing exponentially driven by a massive amount of handsets based on the new mobile OS that are coming to the market. Also, Android seems to be the perfect marketplace for new applications development due to their “open” source and their application store.
And it looks like developers are supporting this platform: Android already has more than 16.000 applications. Still far below App store´s 100.000 applications but quite impressive if you think the little time Android supported mobiles have been available.
Since many years more and more Anthropologists are studying human behavior on Internet. Cyberanthropologism is becoming increasingly important for understanding the complexity of the Homo Digitalis.
Sometime back Google launched Public Data tool with Internet penetration statistics by country. The information is extracted from Datafinder, where users can get even more information like Co2 emissions or population growth among others.
Making a list of exciting Iphone applications is always a task, moreover when you have more than 100.000 applications available. Nevertheless, I choose 10 applications that are extremely useful for your daily life and you shouldn’t miss.
Google has been working hard on giving a lift to Google Chrome platform. Even do still there is a long way to go, during the last two week some interesting developments put additional hope on Chrome’s future. For instance they launched a Beta version for Mac and Linux and also a extensions gallery from where you can upload and download a growing number of applications.
The current gallery is extremely simple, but you can get a good feeling on the top applications downloaded by users. And based on that ranking, I would like to share the top 10 extensions for Google Chrome.
Aging is one of the most striking mega trends changing our society in the next decade. Over the next ten years, aging and how we respond to it will increasingly affect society. The number of 65+ year olds will increase greatly between now and the year 2020.
An aging population will have several implications to the society, workforce market and new technologies that will emerge.
But is also interesting to notice that elderly of tomorrow will behave different as elderly of today. Fresher, more technologically savvy, better educated seniors and a big need for elderly involvement in employment and society in general, could change the way will look aging.
2020 workplace won’t look the same as today. We will see a more flexible, freelance based, highly collaborative and far less secure work world. It will be run by a generation with new values — and women will increasingly be at the control
Technology and the ageing population will be the main drivers of change for bringing opportunities and new ways of work like more flexible career paths and nomadic working environments. Future worker will be highly specialized and the lack of personal contact might change the culture of organizations as an important of their jobs will be teleworking. Finally will seeing a blurfed division between home, work, retail, information, entertainment.
Let me share the top 10 likely truths for the future workplace in this post.
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