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Category Archives: Internet
Google TV should turn into Chrome TV
Chrome has revolutionized web browsing. It has evolved the web in 3 years more than in the previous 10. ChromeOS, though, has failed to challenge the PC and laptop status quo, in part because it was conceived before the iPad … Continue reading
[Chart] Search Vs. Discovery
The chart via Business Insider seems conclusive on the Google versus Facebook war of who is more relevant for online advertisers. When people want to buy something they go first to Google. Full stop. If I want to buy a … Continue reading
Is Google that good? or Microsoft that bad?
Comparing Chrome and IE9, I can only wonder whether Google engineers are genius, or Microsoft has lost its edge. I fell in love with Chrome since it launched in 2008. It was so much faster, with a minimalist design, the … Continue reading
Disruption: Technology or Business Model? Definitively, not Laws
Kindle books have now overtaken paperback books as the most popular format on Amazon.com, according to the quarterly results just released. For every 100 paperback sold, Amazon sold 115 Kindle books For every 100 hardcover sold, Amazon sold 300 Kindle … Continue reading
Why Google Acquires Widevine?
W3C’s HTML5 FAQ page might give some clues (see screenshot) about why Google buys Widevine, a DRM vendor that powers Netflix among others. What if Google adds DRM to HTML5 video? Google did something similar when they bought On2 and open-sourced … Continue reading
HTML5 and Netflix
Netflix explains in this post how they use HTML5 for their UI frontend and logic HTML5 brings to the table, the freedom to create rich, dynamic and interactive experiences for any platform with a web browser. In fact, we’re also … Continue reading
The Netflix Storm
Combine this chart with how Roku, AppleTV, GoogleTV will sell this Xmas, and you have a nightmare after Xmas for Pay-TV and cable operators in US. Comcast knows well. It is easy to see why they had some peering issues … Continue reading
Social Vs. Search
Google should worry about this: More people are discovering content through social networks than through search. Anyone that had a website a few years ago knows well that most traffic use to come via Google. This has changed. As the chart … Continue reading
HTML5: The Future of the Web is Here
The clip shows how close HTML5 performance is to that of a native iOS iPad app. Can you believe this is running on a browser? Disruption is not only about technology, it is also about business models. If the App … Continue reading
Mark Zuckerberg: Social is THE Feature
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, predicts that “social” will rethink industries such as TV, news, music and film. The clip is a bit long.This is my summary of his key points: Facebook started their photo product after big names like … Continue reading
