Posts tagged “web services”

Check out my mini-review of Google Buzz on Flickr.

Twitter's value is its SMS interface. Friendfeed and Pownce miss this entirely. Without SMS, they're not real competitors, no matter how many people switch during outages.

The semantic web isn't coming. Web APIs are the future, and when they hit critical mass and start feeding each other, the value created will be explosive and unpredictable. I'm calling it the emergent web, and the people who build meta-APIs will make a fortune.

Google Music Trends has the same problem as LaunchCast: it's all aggregate stats with nothing personal for the user. Last.fm succeeds because it gives people personalized charts and recommendations. Without a personal hook, why would anyone sign up, other than to give Google more of their data?