This post originally appeared on my Altimeter analyst Jeremiah Owyang's Web Strategy Blog By Chris Silva and Jeremiah Owyang, Industry Analysts at Altimeter Group Last year’s over hyped skydiving was replaced by down to earth by grounded product enhancements. We’re live from the Google IO conference in SF with 6,000 developers, press, and media in San Francisco’s Moscone event center. We noticed a lot of Glass Explorer units (which surprisingly was barely mentioned in the keynote) … [Read more...]
Samsung, Apple, Innovation And Fishwrap
August 31, 2012 By 1 Comment
This post first appeared on Chris Silva's blog Make Mobile Work. In the wake of the Samsung/Apple trial verdict the news is crawling with hyperbole about how disruptive the verdict will be to the mobile OS ecosystem, specifically Android’s momentum. Nothing new in the world of tech reporting, of course. In reality, life is long and the sea changes predicted rarely amount to more than surface ripples. Will Android and its ecosystem be affected by the recent pro-Apple verdict in its battle … [Read more...]
Google Says, “It’s Our Turn” In Mobile
June 28, 2012 By 2 Comments
This is a repost from Chris Silva's blog Make Mobile Work. I spent yesterday morning at the Google I/O developer conference and, aside from peopleliterally skydiving into the event – the news was largely tech-related and heavily mobile. Google made announcements of its new Nexus Tablet, the JellyBean aka Android 4.1 OS and home media sharing features of its new Nexus Q device. Here is what stands out: Android grows up – It was no accident that the Android portion of the keynote … [Read more...]
Google Addresses Revenue Impact of Social Media with New Social Reports
March 20, 2012 By 4 Comments
Even though the topic of social media ROI may sometimes seem like an endless game of Whack-a-Mole [see previous post], there's plenty of evidence to suggest we're inching ever closer to accountability. Today's announcement from the Google Social Analytics team aims to address some of the most pressing questions that marketers face when trying to understand the revenue impact of social media: How does traffic from social sites lead to conversion? What can we conclude about the impact … [Read more...]
What’s Facebook Going to Do with All That Money?
February 6, 2012 By 3 Comments
Many of us grew up with Marcia, Marcia, Marcia. For the past few years the refrain has been Google, Google, Google. But this past week, it’s been all Facebook, all the time. As we wait for the biggest IPO in tech history to shake out, the question I’m being asked most by clients and particularly the mainstream media is, by far, “what’s Facebook going to do with all that money?” Clearly, no one's in possession of a crystal ball, but some reasonable conjectures can be drawn. 1). … [Read more...]
Twitter and censorship
January 27, 2012 By 2 Comments
By Alan Webber, Principal Analyst Almost 49 years ago, President John F. Kennedy stood at a podium in the divided city of Berlin where he proudly proclaimed that the wall that divided the city was an affront to basic human freedoms, that it was a symbol of the failure of communism and its ability to effective govern nations. Twenty-four years later, President Ronald Reagan stood in front of the Brandenburg Gate to encourage Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down the wall" that divided … [Read more...]
Facebook’s IPO: What Does It Mean For…?
January 26, 2012 By 6 Comments
Over 800 million active users - more than half of whom log in on any given day and interact with over 900 million "objects" (pages, groups, communities, etc.). Over 250 million photos uploaded every day, over 70 languages on the site. The stats go on and on, and anyway you look at them, the numbers are huge. How can Facebook grow bigger still? That's what we're waiting so see as the tech world - heck, the world at large - holds it breath for the biggest IPO since Google went public in … [Read more...]
