It’s not a bubble – it’s a new economy !!!

June 12th, 2007

For all of the journalists, bloggers, analysts and commentators that say we are in a “bubble 2.0″ : please take a look at Alexa. Among US top 100 sites, 18 !!! are web 2.0 sites that didn’t even exist in 2003. In less than 3 years, about 20% of the largest American web sites lost their position in the top 100 for new, innovative, fast movers companies that all of their models are based on user generated content. 3 of them, MySpace , Facebook, and Youtube are among the leading 10 sites !!!. In the list you can also find Flickr , Digg , Wikipedia and many many more. It’s not a bubble. It’s a new economy. All of these sites, and many more, are aggregated by our newly and amazing web 2.0 aggregator client – 8HANDS.

k.

Mobile blogging

June 11th, 2007

I was wondering: can the mobile really be a tool for blogging? I can’t see myself writing a full post from my mobile phone. Why should I? it’s not convenient and it will never be. When I think about mobile blogging, Twitter comes to mind, along with a picture or a short video clip attached.

I am standing in an event. I am taking a picture, and then I want to upload it to my blog or page with a short comment. Take a look at the pictures from our largest Israeli client, Cellcom. Today they launched their summer campaign, Volume 2007, connecting music handsets with Volume label (the first mobile label which we at Logia are managing for them), with shows around the country and with a big closing festival by the end of the summer (including the final show of Star is Born – the Israeli American idol).

I took some pictures and video on the press conference, uploaded them directly from my mobile phone with a very good WAP interface offering the ability to upload the full picture (without the stretch of MMS) and added some remarks. Here are the results - http://www.heep.co.il/heep/member/2811. Soon we’ll be launching an English version of the product.

k.