Are Apps the New Website?
10/12/2011 9:43:00 AM
Are Apps the New Website?
The web is all about communication. It was all about expression. But it’s a cold dark existence to imagine having a website that no one ever goes to.
The web is like a store front, the web is like a billboard, the web is a business card.
The thing is that for a company to connect with its customers or users, the web is no longer sufficient, though for things like a business card or a billboard, it’s still best.
For connecting with customers, there is nothing better than PUSH Notifications, and there is nothing better than clicking a button and getting the content I want. Ultimately A browser is not only one extra click, it’s several. Open the Browser, Click on bookmark tab or Address Bar, Click on bookmark or start typing… all before my content is served.
Sure some of these can be made by placing a bookmark on the desktop. However you lose other functionality as well… In order to control the way the content looks on your customers screen you will have to format the website for their device anyway! Why not just format it within the app?
Finally… there is the barrier to entry. For developing an App you need license fees from apple… HOWEVER this too is akin to the hosting fees or server cost of a website.
In the end there is no better advertisement to be had than being in the top lists of the app store, and there is no better reminder of your content’s value than a push notification when your news happens.
If you have content you want your customers to consume, your answer is an APP, not a website. App first, website second for the first time in history.
The Stock Market is like a Rollar Coaster
10/3/2011 9:52:00 AM
The stock market is like a roller coaster:
Poetry:
The stock market is like a roller coaster ride
You must invest against the tide
Always at the bottom of the big hill
All investors release their shrill.
The Goal of any investors thrill
Is to invest at the bottom of the big hill.
Though at this time what anyone learns
Is about the nauseating twists and turns
Eventually the ride begins anew
There will always be a new hill for you
Just as the bubble grows and begins to pop
The ride goes down into an endless drop
People who cannot take the ride
should pull their money and safely hide
But those who stay buckled in
Know that the stouthearted can win.
Though this car goes through furious rides
will always return to the station where it resides.
Prose:
But like any roller coaster this one will ALWAYS return to the station, and eventually always begin climbing a hill again.
The goal of any investor should be to invest when the ride is fast and furious at the bottom of the big hill knowing that many nauseating twists and turns are around the next bend... because it's people who can take the ride who will stay buckled in when the car returns to the station.
Amazon Kindle Fire, Please focus on Software and Content!
9/28/2011 8:42:00 AM
At first glance the idea of a Kindle being a great tablet seems foolish.
What would the world possibly do with another tablet in its hands?
However Amazon does have a lot to offer!
It’s trying to push its own mobile databases of media and show customers it’s open for business.
Also they have a HUGELY untapped cloud computing center for processing vast amounts of information, mostly unwrapped.
The more you think about it the more it kinda starts to make sense.
HOWEVER don’t let that fool you.
AMAZON should NOT be making tablets.
It should be making interfaces!
I don’t WANT a kindle. I want what a kindle OFFERS!
This all started when my Friend Mike Blackford talked about having a new browser…
He was referring to the web design aspect of having a new browser to program for…
I was looking at it from a USER pov of having a new browser to sync and keep up to date…
We don’t want a new Browser! We want a new Interface!
We want our Amazon interface to be snappy because of their Cloud processing power.
We want our Amazon interface to be full because of the media deals Amazon can boss around.
But I want to hold an iPad. I want to Pack an iPad. Amazon cant keep up with the fast paced hardware world, so they shouldn’t try. EVEN HP bowed out!
Amazon, please make your content available from the web using HTML 5 and then make me log in.
Amazon, please speed up the video processing with your Cloud Power.
Amazon, please make me a browser type interface for heavy web lifting.
Amazon, please compete with GOOGLE, and APPLE on Software, not on Hardware.
Out with Gizmodo, In with Ars
9/28/2011 8:14:00 AM
I read some gizmodo article yesterday talking about how some chicken nuggets were better than salvation... from this self proclaimed 24 year old with a life time of experience... and I just got the feeling I was reading my Child's Diary...
I'm starting to migrate away from Gizmodo.
Ars Technica is very well thought out and in depth coverage of the more important things going on in tech.
Less chicken nuggets, more tech cruch.