Archive for November, 2006

IDEA 2006 Conference

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

The inaugural IDEA 2006 conference was recently held in Seattle.

This conference addresses issues of design for an always-on, always-connected world. Where “cyberspace” is a meaningless term because the online and offline worlds cannot be made distinct. Where physical spaces are so complex that detailed wayfinding is necessary to navigate them. Where work processes have become […]

Q3 2006 Key Performance Indicators

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

IAB/PwC reported today that Internet advertising surpassed $4 billion for Q3 2006.

This represents the eighth straight quarter-on-quarter revenue growth.

US Internet ad revenues are on track for $16bn in 2006, up from 12.5bn in 2005.

Technorati’s latest blogosphere quarterly report makes interesting reading.

Technorati is now tracking more than 57 Million blogs.

Spam-, splog- and sping-fighting efforts […]

Web 2.0 Summit

Saturday, November 11th, 2006

One of Silicon Valleys key events on the TMT calendar was held this week.

In its third year Web 2.0 Conference was renamed Web 2.0 Summit.

Past themes were the Web as a Platform in 2004 and Revving the Web in 2005.

This years theme was disruption and opportunity.

The Web 2.0 Summit focuses on emerging business and […]

Seriosity setting out to redefine work

Sunday, November 5th, 2006

Seriosity recently came out of stealth mode.

Seriosity’s mission is to change the nature of work by creating a new category of enterprise software inspired by concepts and technology from successful multi-player games.

We are focused on improving the productivity of information workers in the high value activities of teamwork, collaboration, innovation and leadership — functions that […]

The Vloggies Awards

Sunday, November 5th, 2006

The Vloggies Awards were held in San Francisco last night.

The Vloggies Awards recognize individual and business excellence in creativity, quality and delivery of online video content. Most importantly, the Vloggies celebrate the growing community contribution to original video content for the Internet and portable media devices.

Winners of the Viewers Choice Awards were as follows : […]