Thought Garage

Seth Godin’s Web 2.0 Traffic Watch List is based on traffic to each Web2.0 property. Here is another list of top 200 based on page activity (time spent).

We are excited to announce the creation of the Attention 200â„¢, the two hundred sites that yield the largest share of our attention on the web. The Attention Index is based on the amount of time U.S. internet users spend across the top one million websites. The Compete Attention 200â„¢ represents the best of the best each month.

Source: Compete.com Blog » Announcing: The Compete Attention 200™

Panel discussion moderated by Guy Kawasaki with founders of web startups. 

At the CommunityNext conference I moderated this panel with the founders of six very successful web properties:

1. Akash Garg of hi5

2. Sean Suhl of Suicide Girls

3. Max Levchin of Slide

4. James Hong of HotorNot

5. Markus Frind of PlentyofFish

6. Drew Curtis of Fark

Source: How to Change the World: Panel of Web Community Founders: Utter Defiance of the “Venture Capital” Model

Wow ! What a cool range of colors.

Nokia N73 In Blooming Colors

Source: Darla Mack: Nokia N73 In Blooming Colors

There was so much hoopla about how the new Web based Word processors and Spreadsheets like Google Docs/Sheets, Zoho Writer/Sheets…. will kill Microsoft’s products. If you believe in the hype, taste this reality byte. Out of all the software sold last year, MS Office tops the list. While many hate to see this, for people who are serious about writing something, a web based word processor/spreadsheet is no match to their desktop application counterparts.

Whether they say it or not, there is a reason why most bloggers use a desktop client to post their blogs, almost never touching their webbased counterparts.  

Web2.0 Office productivity apps are great. But not for everybody.

Read this link: » Top-selling software in 2006: MS Office, TurboTax, Norton Internet Security, Quickbooks | IT Facts | ZDNet.com

There are quite a few reasons why I believe Smart Phones are the future. And here are few stats that shows how smartphone market is growing.  Also, These days almost every phone shipped has atleast a camera and MP3 player on them.  

Global shipments of all smart mobile devices rose 30% YTY in Q4 2006 to hit 22 mln. 18 mln were smart phones, 2.5 mln wireless handhelds and 1.5 mln handhelds. Total smart mobile device shipments for 2006 were 77 mln, of which 64 mln were smart phones. Nokia remains market leader in Q4, accounting for 50% of all shipments. RIM returns to second place, with device shipments rising 54% YTY in the quarter. Sony Ericsson gets back into top five for the first time since early 2004. Combined shipments of smart phones and wireless handhelds (”converged devices”) were up 42%. But handheld shipments fell 41% compared to Q4 2005.

Source: » Smartphone shipments up 30% in Q4 2006 | IT Facts | ZDNet.com