This New Year’s eve I thought I might blog some predictions for the coming year, (social purchasing, app stores, yada yada), but I decided that wasn’t stupid enough, so at risk of sounding like a deranged conspiracy theorist, here’s my outlook for 2013 instead. Sweet dreams, and happy 2011 everyone! Continue reading…
Monthly Archives: December 2010
Did Search kill Del.icio.us?
My geek friends are up in arms about Yahoo! shutting down Del.icio.us.
Apparently it falls into the category of “underperforming or off-strategy” products. The echo chambers are ablaze with calls to save it, or open the source code. Of course, my non-geek friends ask “What’s Delicious?” – and there’s the rub.
I’m not qualified to examine Yahoo!’s original business strategy for Del.icio.us, but one thing is pretty clear to me — the masses don’t use bookmarks; not even the browser toolbar kind, let alone a Cloud solution – sorry, I mean Web-based solution.
Remember this? (view comments oldest first). Meet the masses.
Will Twitter acquire TwitPic?
I logged onto TwitPic this morning, and was struck by the Twitter-like appearance of their new design.
[ Update: this design very quickly reverted, and has not been re-instated ]
