Going on Wonderlust check out the site

Hi All,
So i am going on a Wonderlust adventure for the next several months. I know i need to do quiet a few updates to this blog to reflect on the state of mososo and web20 as the dust settles post economic nuclear melt down. However i think i need to get better at my blogging habits first. I am hoping that this new travel blog of mine that i put together will nurture the consistency with which i post.

To keep track of mine travel adventures as i bounce around South East asia with a few childhood and college friends check out http://wonderlust2009.com :)

I will be resuming posts here after my return until then wonderlust2009.com will become my new blogging home :)

P.S. Anyone else going to be on Koh Phangang in June ?

Pura Vida

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Congratulations summer

I got a note from a friend today that i thought id share with the world:

hello...

today our friend Summer Rayne Oakes launched her first book: Style Naturally http://snipr.com/b5yy0

Help it climb the ranks of Amazon!! Buy one today-- makes a great gift. And or spread it among your facebook, twitter, myspace .....

massimo

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Wordpress vs Blogger: uploading images

This is a half facetious post... but i am struggling to upload media to the iPlacemarks.com/blog and i believe the culprit is Wordpress..
So just to eliminate that browser being the culprit i am going to upload the same buttons here in Blogger and score which publishing platform makes it way easier.

Ok since it seems to have worked on blogger with much much fewer issues. Blogger wins.

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Carpe Diem: iPlacemarks.com went live

This is a copy of a post on http://www.iplacemarks.com/blog but i think its worth reposting here too.
Would love to get any and all feedback. Thanks. Enjoy.

here is a link to the original post: http://iplacemarks.com/blog/?p=18

Carpe Diem: iPlacemarks v1.0 is going Live
January 27th, 2009
The day is finally here http://www.iPlacemarks.com just shed its teaser page and has put up a LIVE version of the worlds first Placemarks. We are bringing to you:
- the Chevron Placemark button (finds Chevron gas stations)
- the Starbucks Placemark button (finds Starbucks coffee stores)
- The Antibucks Placemark button
(finds coffee shops that are not starbucks)
- The Jamba Juice Placemark button (finds Jamba Juice stores)

I am very proud to say that we made it to this point at a pretty brisk pace.
From the inception of the idea, what i call the “napkin phase”. All the way to launching this LIVE versionit has taken us 1 month and 12 days.
If i do say so myself thats a rapid start up cycle. Its not trivial to go through a complete idea to launch cycle in such a short amount of time. There are quiet a few steps along the way:
1. figure out an idea
2. plan it
3. design it
4. execute it
5. convince your self you have several viable business models
6. Blog about it
7. Make sure to fit Xmas and New Years holiday into it (as well as a pretty big relocation for one of us )

Anyways. Check out the new iPhone site for iPlacemarks.com. We are finally unleashing the fruits of our ridiculous R&D resources and armies of mad scientists.

To check it all out point your mobile safari to http://www.iplacemarks.com

Then click on a Placemark button and add it to your iPhone’s home screen in 3 clicks.

We hope you guys like these really simple but really useful buttons we made. Add them to your homescreen, share them with your friends via email, and send us your suggestions about what other Placemarks you want.

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Pulse of Web Innovation at the dawn of 2009: Slow

I came across an interesting piece of data that gave me a "Pulse" for entrepreneurship in the WEB space as 2008 clocked out. I am not sure if it has always been like this or if its an indicator of the times and where we are with our economy.

What i found by searching for a website I recently bought is a sample list of websites registered (purchased) on December 18, 2008. It is a list of the 100,000+++ websites registered on that day.

A quick scan of the list shows that most of the sites could be classified as being in the Web Porn niche market. Few sites in the list stood to be innovative Web ventures (my site iplacemarks.com was of course one of the exceptions in being an attempt to change how retail brands and mobile devices mix)

I assume that the list i got is a representative sample. You can see the list below.

I think its an interesting insight and perspective into the Pulse of Web/Mobile/IT entrepreneurship. Although this is an exploration and extrapolation of an idea quiet far beyond the data i have.
I am assuming that most websites registered are now vehicles to turn a profit through established business models. Meaning that innovation has slowed. There are lots of other blog posts and articles about measuring the Pulse of innovation as a rate of VC funds flowing into new start ups. Its common knowledge in the start up community that VC funds have "circl3d their wagons" and are saving their dollars for their existing portfolios instead of looking for new plays. Although some like Accel seem to be striking while everyone else is weak (they raised a cool 1 Billion recently).

So i would not look to the Web to launch too many new businesses that put the 150,000 or so techies back in business. I think the techies will be forced to adapt with the times, specifically they will be forced to look towards mobile skies. I think this recession's timing and the follow on cut offs at web companies is very fortuitously timed with a rapid jump in mobile itnernet adoption and usage.

I have a hunch that the shedding of techies from the web space will lead to an influx of new talent, ideas, and experience to Mobile, specifically the mobile web.

I expect mobile to drive the entrepreneurial growth and companies to help tech recover from this recession.


As a brief Plug here is some initial info about iPlacemarks.com :
I like it because it is a very simple yet powerful technology concept.
Hopefully it will let me explore Interactive Marketing from the Agency perspective, and further my thoughts on mobile advertising beyond the usual suspects of admob.com, google, etc


iPlacemarks will achieve 2 simple goals for users:
- a way to make iPhone navigation User experiences better
- a way to fix a UX issue in mobile google maps.

iPlacemarks metrics of success:
I will measure the success of this my seeing how far i get towards to simple metrics:
- Does iPlacemarks list Starbucks as a client ?
- Is iPlacemarks featured on Apple.com (if Tapulous pulled it off with Tap Tap Revenge, i should be able to get at least close to it)

- Inspired by Apple's Solution to mobile app distribution (1 click launch of apps/ easy discovery to acquire them).
- Inspired by Staples "Easy Button" TV ads.
- Inspired by wanting to have an Easy Button on my iPhone for places i searcch for repeatedly.


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Out of all the CES reviews my Top 2 announcements

Out of all of the coverage and blog posts about CES 2009 here are my favorite 2. I picked these by how excited i am to see these Products Live and in action.

This year's CES was a lot more exciting then the Sunset Macworld Keynote. Unlike some spectacular sunsets (Eivissa Cafe Del Mar around August) this last Macworld was like watching a sunset on a cloudy and foggy day ... not spectacular.
All the techies who didnt get their regular gadget fix from Macworld got it from CES this year. Especially the Palm keynote which had a lot of the reality distortion effects usually limited to Steve Jobs's performances:

The Exciting Mobile Platform/Product/OS announcement:

http://i.gizmodo.com/5126516/palm-pre-first-look-and-details

Palm Pre came back from nowhere, stock price jumped 35% critics and analysts are ringing it in as the hottest device since the original iPhone announcement. to be honest with you my device envy meter hasn't been this high since i knew i was getting an iPhone in a couple of weeks:

The Random surprise, that could be a total Flop or a Revolution:
This little iPhone case makes things on the iPhone screen 3D without 3D glasses:

http://www.tuaw.com/2009/01/08/wazabee-brings-glass-free-3d-to-the-iphone/

Can't wait to see this product Live

Same with the Pre actually.

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Mobile Web wave swelling

I think its good to focus on the beacons of hope in the tech and web spaces these days in light of the recent climate.
I wanted to lay out my musings about what i call the Mobile Web Wave. In essence the true coming of mobile2.0 that many people heralded at the same time as web2.0.I think the 2.0 branding craze mislead the industry perception into discussing the mobile2.0 boom before it happened. I think it is starting to happen now. We are finally now entering mobile2.0 in terms of mobile web serving as an ecosystem to support venture opportunities.
I believe it will be one of the few growth markets and focus points of innovation in the next 24 months as this recession plays out.

The premise of the Mobile Web Wave and the following market opportunity is very simple.

Here are the assumptions:
1. The iPhone truly caused a design paradigm revolution in mobile by creating an example of how a touchscreen browser can be truly useful. (great built in WiFi definitely plays a major role)

2. iPhone users generate 50 x more mobile web page requests that lets say Razr users. The reason behind the higher web consumption is the touch screen iphone browser.

3. Since other phones are shipping with iPhone like browsers: G1, Storm, Instinct, Prada I and II, Omnia, Xperia, Skyfire,iPod touch, Fennec etc

You add these 3 things up and you get the following:

Within 6 months the US market alone will have 35 million touchscreen phones.

so thats at least 35 million x 50/ month = 1,750,000,000 more pages being requested per month . This huge growth in mobile web page demand will trigger a rush to create purely mobile sites thus creating a mini Mobile Web bubble.

I think that within 18 months there will be more touchscreen mobile web pages requested/month then all of the page views of wap combined. Assuming that the adoption of wifi, data plans, and touchscreens remains constant to the past 6 months.

Am i the only one noticing this trend ? Am i way off ? Let me know if you have a different take in the comments.

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