Google Maps for Mobile phones -like GPS, but not really GPS but local based services

Friday, November 30th, 2007 by Michael Altendorf

Nice try!

found at

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/11/28/new_google_maps_feature_could_simulate_gps_on_iphones.html

and

http://www.google.com/gmm/mylocation.html?hl=en

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIG-Dx7kF3Q&rel=1]

Posted in GIS, google, gps, iphone, lbs, location based, nokia, service, services | No Comments »

Great Article on the reasons for success of social networks and communities

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 by Michael Altendorf

The author had hard lessons to learn to write this article:

An Important Lesson About Grassroots Media
I learned — the hard way — some truths about grassroots content and online community. This is my attempt at preventing you from going through similar business heartache. By Steve Outing

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/stopthepresses_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003677395

Thanks Nate for the recommendation

http://nathanaels.livejournal.com/

Tags: community, content, geo, internet, local, media, news, social networks, tagging, user, user generated content, web 2.0
Posted in community, content, geo, local, media, news, social networks, tagging, user, user generated content | No Comments »

Learning languages 2.0

Monday, November 26th, 2007 by Michael Altendorf

check this out:

http://www.palabea.net/

found at

http://www.foerderland.de/

Posted in business model, languages, learning, web 2.0 | No Comments »

Barcamp in Mannheim this weekend

Friday, November 23rd, 2007 by Michael Altendorf

Infos:

http://barcamp.org/BarCampMannheim

 Wiki:

http://barcamprheinneckar.pbwiki.com/

Posted in Heidelberg, bar, barcamp, camp, mannheim, openspace, rhein-neckar | No Comments »

Internet economics and business models for the future

Friday, November 23rd, 2007 by Michael Altendorf

Techdirt

http://techdirt.com/articles/20071121/083858.shtml

and J. Lanier

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/opinion/20lanier.html?_r=2&ref=opinion&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

 from New York Times talk about internet strategy and how to create revenue in the web.

There is a trade off between generating revenues with free content and ads  on the one side, and on the other side micropayment which are on the radar since years but are still not established.

In my opinion micropayments are not going to succeed in the end due to the several possibilities getting free content on the web. Also if all companies start introducing micropayments for the offering or in general for information it would be everytime an attraction for a vendor to deviate from this position and building a monopoly in a market niche with free ad based business model.

So if ad based models for virtual content is the future all real products should get more expensive. You can see this in music business. Since napster started 10 years ago the revenues from selling cds break down and so the price for attending a concert increases every year. Also DRM is no final solution. As you could see Amazon uses this to attack itunes etc. with lower prices and without DRM.

If this art of acting in the business is comparable to other solution we are going to see increasing prices for real products in the future. The revenue from these products are athwart subventions for the freee information in the net due to the thing, that the costs of marketing in the web and so the free web inforamtion have to be paid with this revenues. So there is a significant dependancen between survival of the internet companies which offer free content and traditional business. Also consulting companies, and in general, service companies could benefit because they are not directly involved in this business and could create higher margins with lower costs of prodcution and selling their products. Enough for the morning. Time for lunch…

Tags: business, economy, internet, internet economy, model, service, traditional, web
Posted in business models, economy, future, industry, internet, micropayment, money, strategy, web, web 2.0 | No Comments »

iPhone without contract in Germany

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007 by Michael Altendorf

T-Mobile Germany offers the iPhone without contract for 999€.

 Source:

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2220141,00.asp

Posted in htc, iphone, t-mobile, vodafone, winmobile | 1 Comment »

Android SDK available for download

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 by Michael Altendorf

http://code.google.com/android/download.html

Android Blog

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/

Wikinomics Blog also talk about that

http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2007/11/13/the-android-challenge-and-the-open-g-phone-platform/

Posted in Blog, android, apple, google, gphone, iphone, microsoft, mobile, sdk, wikinomics, wisdom of the crowd | 1 Comment »

Video tagging

Thursday, November 8th, 2007 by Michael Altendorf

Somewhere I just discovered a video from Scobelizer where you could tag particular positions within the video. Also comments on certain positions are possible

The technology/services is from

http://www.viddler.com/ 

Posted in comment, tag, veohm, viddler, video tagging, youtube | 1 Comment »

no GPhone

Thursday, November 8th, 2007 by Michael Altendorf

ok, there was no gphone announcement – bad WSJ, but Google Android an open platform for a mobile os

Posted in android, google, msft | No Comments »

GPhone announcment on monday?

Sunday, November 4th, 2007 by Michael Altendorf

According to the wired blog epiccenter http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/11/wsj-google-to-a.html

WSJ http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2007/11/01/ring-ringgoogle-to-announce-phone-plans-monday/

seems to have some information about a gphone announcement on monday…

After the google earth success GPS should be implemented….

Posted in google, gphone, iphone, n95, rumors, wired, wsj | No Comments »