Showing posts with label trends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trends. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

The Best of the Web 2009 - 13th Annual Webby Award Winners

Webby Winners truly represent the best of the Web. With nearly 70 categories, Website entries make up the majority of Webby Awards Winners, Nominees and Honorees. Some are beautiful to look at and interact with. Others are a testament to usability and functionality. And a handful excel across the board. To be selected among the best is an incredible achievement worthy of praise.

Webby Award Winner Websites in 2009 by category:
Congratulations! Check out the full list of 2009 Webby Award Winners, People's Voice Winners and Nominees on WebbyAwards.com.
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Monday, May 11, 2009

Web Trend Map 4 by Information Architects

The 2009 Web Trend Map is the fourth edition of this awesome annual publication by Information Architects. Web Trend Map 4 visualizes the 333 leading web domains and the 111 most influential Internet people on the Tokio Metro map.


Domains are carefully selected by the iA research team. Each domain is evaluated based on traffic, revenue, age and the company that owns it and is assigned to an individual station on the map.

The soon to be published 2009 version of Web Trend Map 4 includes the following lines:
  • Application
  • Publishing
  • Opinion
  • News
  • Identity
  • Creativity
  • Money
  • Broadcasting
  • Knowledge
  • Advertisement
  • Sharing
  • Entertainment
  • Filter
The map also includes Web Trend Ranking with the Top 50 most influential domains:
  1. Google
  2. Yahoo
  3. MSN
  4. Apple
  5. Wikipedia
  6. Amazon
  7. YouTube
  8. Facebook
  9. Twitter
  10. The Pirate Bay
  11. The New York Times
  12. Firefox
  13. Adobe
  14. Digg
  15. Reddit
  16. eBay
  17. LinkedIn
  18. Flickr
  19. craigslist
  20. deviantART
  21. WordPress
  22. The Huffington Post
  23. Drudge Report
  24. The Daily Show
  25. CNN
  26. The Guardian
  27. The Washington Post
  28. TechCrunch
  29. The Wall Street Journal
  30. TED
  31. vimeo
  32. FriendFeed
  33. hulu
  34. PayPal
  35. StumbleUpon
  36. Blogger
  37. Bloomberg
  38. Dailymotion
  39. MySpace
  40. O'Reilly
  41. Last.fm
  42. Delicious
  43. Drupal
  44. Ask
  45. Blizzard
  46. CNET
  47. Skype
  48. Fotolog
  49. mixi
  50. Spiegel.de
The final beta version of the map is available as a PNG image on flickr.
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Thursday, January 15, 2009

2008 Year in Review

2008 was the year of social networking and mobile internet innovations.

Let's highlight the most interesting news and trends of last year.

Cloud computing hype has reached all time high:
Mobile Internet and gadgets has become a platform:
High-Definition Video has started to conquer the Web:
3D and Virtual Worlds have grown:
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Thursday, December 18, 2008

Amazon's Platform Business Model

Dr Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, describes Amazon’s platform business model and its ‘flywheel’ for growth on the latest episode of the Telco 2.0 ‘executive brainstorm’ series on Telecom TV. It is well worth the time to watch it.

The other videos are also full of insights:
  • Chris Barraclough, co-founder, Telco 2.0 Initiative describes how the ‘two-sided’ telecoms business model works, and what’s needed to turn it into reality
  • Martin Geddes, Chief Analyst Telco 2.0 Initiative articulates the untapped opportunity for growth in the core telephony business
  • Pieter Knook, Director of Internet Services, Vodafone Group, unveils his vision for a ‘next generation open mobile internet platform’
  • Cenk Serdar, Chief VAS Officer, Turkcell on how his company is blazing a trail with identity and banking services
  • Evidence that challenges the Long Tail theory
  • James Enck, Senior Associate Analyst at the Telco 2.0 Initiative on the impact and opportunity of the Credit Crunch for telcos
  • And a stirring speech by Trudy Norris-Grey, MD Strategy & Transformation at BT Wholesale challenging the Telecoms sector to make the change to realise the $375bn Telco 2.0 growth opportunity
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Friday, November 21, 2008

Kevin Kelly on the Future of the Web

Kevin Kelly recently delivered a pure inspirational talk at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.

"I gave a talk yesterday at the Web 2.0 Summit. It's a short talk, only 10 minutes long, so I decided to skip Web 3 - Web 9 and just speak about the upcoming Web 10.0 and what I think will happen in the next 6,500 days."



Some notes:
  • Evolution: Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the web 6,527 days ago. In that period we saw: linking of computers (the net), then linking pages (the web), sharing links, the next phase will be linking data
  • Sharing data feels intimate, we are entering an era in which we will share data. Every object we make (even physical) will have data in it, and it will all be part of this web -> the database of Things
  • In the next 6,500 days of the web: it will not be the web only better, it will be something entirely different
  • There will be one machine, everything will be part of it. The web will be its OS. If information is not on the web it will not count. Everything is always on.
Kevin Kelly had a similar talk earlier on TED: Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web. Is this the way to Web 3.0?
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Monday, November 3, 2008

Camera Phones to Scan 2-D Mobile Codes

Camera phones combined with 2D codes in innovation that mobile users could take advantage of. The use of Mobile Codes is only limited by imagination. One possibility is innovative marketing:
When BMW launched the BMW 1 Series 3-door version last year, it was the first white car they had introduced in a long time. So they decided to produce their advertising campaigns in black and white.
“Because the campaign was black and white, we decided to combine it with 2D bar codes, which we wanted to test.” (2D bar codes, both Semacodes and QR Codes, are also black and white).

What are mobile codes?

'Mobile codes' are codes in the same way as ordinary barcodes are, but their matrix structure can hold more information. The codes are also mobile in the sense that the camera of mobile devices can be used to scan and decode them.

A web address (URL), a phone number, an email address or plain text can be converted into a mobile code. After scanning it their camera phone, people will have instant access to the encoded information straight on the display of their mobile device.

Mobile codes are increasing in popularity: as tags on flyers and posters; on business cards and CVs; in magazines and blogs; offline and online.

Mobile phones such as a Nokia N82, N93, N93i, N95, N95 8GB, E66, E71, E90 or 6220 Classic comes with the Nokia barcode reader preinstalled, ready to scan mobile codes.

How to Create Mobile Codes?

There are free easy to use tools to create Mobile Codes such as the Nokia Mobile Barcodes site. Once the mobile code has been generated scan, print or save it for sharing the way you want.

How to scan and decode Mobile Codes?

There are many other tools in addition to Nokia Barcode Reader such as
Have fun and connect the real world and the virtual world with innovative mobile codes!
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Monday, January 28, 2008

Trend Map for 2008+

See what to expect in 2008 and beyond on the latest Trend Map!


Nowandnext.com and Future Exploration Network have once again collaborated to create a trend map for 2008 and beyond. The map uncovers key trends across Society, Politics, Demographics, Economy, and Technology.

Innowave is focused on technology innovations and trends so here they are:
  • Geospatial web
  • Ubiquitous connectivity
  • Robotics
  • Nanotech
  • Biotech
  • Embedded Intelligence
  • RFID
  • Open innovation
  • Transparency
  • GPS
  • Virtual worlds
  • Wireless
  • Device convergence
  • Mobile devices
  • Social networks
  • Place shifting
  • Too much information
  • Time shifting
  • Aggregation
  • Personalization
  • Online video
  • Web 2.0
  • Enterprise 2.0
  • Simplicity
  • 3D printers
  • VoIP
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Reality mining
  • Humans 2.0
Click on the map below to get the full pdf of Trend Blend 2008+.
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Monday, October 15, 2007

IT Futurology : What Could Happen to the Web by 2012?

What will happen when the MySpace generation grows-up? When employees want Facebook rather than a phonebook? When your monthly report is on your iPhone, your spreadsheet's on your Wiki, your e-mail's moved to Google, you haven't got a home directory (or a PC) any more, and blogging's no longer a buzzword - it's just what everybody does to stay employed? Tune in to Alec Muffett's entertaining presentation on blip.tv to find out!

Alec projects current trends and discusses the possibility of a terabyte iPod by 2012. In comparison a recent Hitachi announcement expects the 4TB desktop and 1TB notebook hard disk drives by 2011. Until then we can buy the industry's first cost effective desktop terabyte drive, the Hitachi 0A34915 1TB 7200Rpm 32MB Cache SATA II Hard Drive.

Check out Alec Muffett's blog for more on IT futurology and security.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007

The Secret of Hottest Startups

Forty of the hottest startups have announced and demonstrated their new products at the TechCrunch40 conference. That is plenty of innovative and disruptive ideas in action!

Each startup company had 8 minutes to present their business plans in one of these sessions:
  • Search and Discovery
  • Mobile and Communications
  • Community and Collaboration
  • Crowd Sourcing
  • Productivity and Web Applications
  • Revenue Models and Analytics
  • Rich Media and Mash Ups
  • Entertainment for All Ages
What is the secret sauce of technology startups? How did they present their unfair advantage in 8 minutes? John L. Nesheim provide step by step guide for entrepreneurs to create and execute a strong business plan. His book The Power of Unfair Advantage: How to Create It, Build it, and Use It to Maximum Effect offers essential tips, tools, and techniques for startups.

It is not only techniques that are important though. Real-life, down-to-earth stories told by founders of famous companies shows another perspective about the early days of startups. The book Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days is awfully inspiring. It is like reading a pile of books written by founders of Apple, Yahoo, PayPal and others, each with their own insights and useful advice.
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Web Trend Map 2007

Welcome back to Innowave - the next wave of internet innovations.


Have a look at this awesome Subway Map of the Internet by Information Architects Japan. It shows the most successful websites on the web, ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective mapped just like a subway map.

The map includes the following "subway lines":
  • Sharing
  • Tools
  • Technology
  • Knowhow
  • Moneymaker
  • News
  • Social News
  • Community
  • Design
  • Movies
  • Music
The sites are mapped as subway stations including Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, YouTube, Ebay, Digg, SecondLife, LinkedIn and many others. Congratulations!
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007

How 8 Trends are Radically Change Work and Play?

CSC has identified the following eight trends that will change the way we work and play.
Their report and Connected World Blog focuses on these trends:
  1. All-IP Enterprise
  2. Industry Crossovers
  3. Bandwidth at the Edge
  4. Networks in New Places
  5. Connected Things
  6. Liquid Time and Place
  7. Pervasive Presence and Location
  8. Mobility: The Next Frontier
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