Apple Goes Quattro Wireless
Swisher: Apple is set to announce that it has acquired Quattro Wireless for $275 million; http://j.mp/86fdcp
Updates from January, 2010 Toggle Comment Threads | Keyboard Shortcuts
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Gerrit Eicker
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Formspring
Web forms processing? Formspring offers a nifty service but its social side project needs a makeover; http://j.mp/7POZhX
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Convergence Anyone?
Pfanner: Over the next decade, convergence may have to be driven more by what consumers want; http://j.mp/4Qodbi
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Best of 2009+
Lovely compilation: The 17 best best-of 2009 (and the decade) lists; http://j.mp/6p81Hb
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The Metaverse in 2010
Will AR surpass full virtuality? Will SL be acquired? What about interoperability? 2010 predictions: http://j.mp/7NeF4H
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Haskell: “There will be increasing awareness that Augmented Reality, and not pure Virtual Reality, will be the future for what we now call virtual worlds. … By year-end 2010, 50 of the Global 1000 will have dramatically expanded their presence in Second Life, with collaboration being a key enterprise target. … There is a 30% chance of Second Life being acquired by a larger company in 2010. IBM, Microsoft, Sony, Facebook, and Google are all candidates.”
Neva: “Augmented Reality will become the hugest thing, with everybody scrambling with zealous greed to create APIs and games and features and better phones. … Linden Lab will sell itself. Note that I say ‘sell itself,’ and not ‘IPO’. There is no IPO coming, not in this recession and post-VW boom climate. Instead, LL will become a ‘partner’ to something bigger. Perhaps IBM will buy the Enterprise function and keep Lindens on as a content-creation studio, and they will keep that brand or even call themselves Nebraska or something equally stupid but they will all be Lindens.”
Gwyn: “Interop will become a reality. Don’t expect miracles before the year’s end, though. Starting just after June 2010, when the interoperability communication protocol among grids becomes an Internet standard, LL will work together with at least IBM and Intel (and possibly some large OpenSim grid co-location services – which will exclude most of the OpenSim grids people usually talk about) to allow Gold Grid Providers full interoperability with Second Life Grid.”
MJ: “2010 will see the United States further formalise taxation arrangements in regard to virtual goods. I doubt the Australian Tax Office will make any substantive rulings in the coming twelve months. – 2010 is going to see the largest MMO launch since World of Warcraft: Star Wars The Old Republic. It won’t eclipse the incumbent but it will become the solid number 2 player in the short-term, with all bets off in the longer term. – This year saw social games like Farmville take off in a big way. There’ll be some significant fatigue from users with these platforms, but there’ll also be further innovation to make them more engaging and with easier integration of virtual goods without the spam-like accompaniments that plague people’s Twitter of Facebook timelines. Overall: continuation of exponential growth, albeit not at the same level it has been the past six months.”
Frisby: “Consolidation continues throughout the first half of 2010. – Platforms with relatively simple feature sets will continue to face increased competition from free products and their more technologically complex brethren. Many will survive on one or two large clients – but as a whole they will languish with a dearth of new clients. … Entertainment Worlds continue to quietly succeed year-after-year. – I’m not talking about MMORPG games here either. The consumer entertainment virtual worlds will continue to grow, or at least will not stagnate as fast as business worlds. There.com, IMVU, Second Life will all continue to see growth – although at a smaller percentage than they have previously (5-15%). – Blue Mars will languish for the first half of 2010, but may gain serious pace in late 2010 as usability problems are fixed and average user hardware specifications continue to improve.”
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Gwyneth Llewelyn
Let’s hope so :) It’s nice to see how people continue to keep their optimism about VWs and their uses! It’s a technology that is approaching maturity (at least on some platforms) but it’s still so much misunderstood… for 2010, I wish that this technology starts to become better and better understood as its uses become apparent…
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Gerrit Eicker
Indeed. Maturity rules, the hype is (mostly) over. – I’m not setting any hopes on a broader understanding as long as (old) media still hawks “Second Life” in its literal sense.
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Tablets and Print
Carr: Tablets represent an opportunity to renew the romance between printed material and consumer; http://j.mp/4VnZwC
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Media Goes eCommerce
Alternative revenue streams for Salon, WSJ, others: eCommerce makes a comeback for media; http://j.mp/7jzYUl
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The New Advertising
Othmer, formerly Young and Rubicam: The internet? Non-traditional? That was beneath us; http://j.mp/7N9hMr
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Gardora.at auf Wachstumskurs
http://Gardora.at wurde in 2009 372.266mal besucht: also 61,48% häufiger als im Vorjahr!
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Gerrit Eicker
Ein paar weitere Zahlen für 2009 (Veränderung zu 2008):
- 318.761 Besucher (UV) (+67,84%)
- 519 registrierte Benutzer (+128,63%)
- 8.188 grüne Artikel (+97,35%)
- 962.190 Seitenabrufe (+44,12%)
Besonders erfreulich ist die deutlich über den Erwartungen liegende aktive Teilnahme der Leser am Gartenwiki. Auf geht’s ins Gartenjahr 2010!
Gerrit Eicker
Advertising Survives
Jarvis: I do not think advertising is dead. I think it is dying for mass companies; http://j.mp/8SZuH2
Gerrit Eicker 10:03 on 5. January 2010 Permalink |
ATD: “The announcement of the acquisition might come as soon as tomorrow, upping the ante in the mobile advertising business significantly. – Google (GOOG) recently forked over an astonishing $750 million for Silicon Valley’s AdMob, a Quattro competitor, which Apple (AAPL) had also made a bid to acquire. – Both innovative start-ups are aimed squarely at the fast-growing market to advertise on smartphones, such as Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android devices.”
SEL: “That immediately raises the question: What will Yahoo and Microsoft Do? – Yahoo already is a top mobile ad network and so is Microsoft – in both traffic and estimated revenues. Both rank in the top five in terms of monthly uniques, according to various sources. – In 2007 Microsoft acquired Screen Tonic (mainly for technology) and, last year, committed an estimated $500-$600 million in revenue guarantees to be the search and display ads partner for US carrier Verizon (89 million subscribers). Microsoft’s mobile MSN has 25 million (or more) users. … While it will take a few years for big mobile ad revenues to show up and justify these prices, rest assured that the mobile internet will only continue to gain adoption. With 70 million users in the US today, poised to pass 100 million at some point this year, this market is real – and red hot.”
TC: “The move is at once unsurprising and strange for Apple. Unsurprising, because Apple has ventured into this territory before with its negotiations with AdMob and has made it clear that it wants a cut of the soon-to-explode mobile advertising sector. At the same time, this is wholly unfamiliar territory for Apple. The company has long focused on selling high quality devices and the polished software that accompanies it. Yes, it distributes a vast amount of media through iTunes, but it is almost never involved with actually creating this media. Nor does it typically have a sales force selling advertising.”