I switched to a Mac a few years ago, the boot up time on my PC pushed me over the top and one day I literally got up out of my office drove to the Mac store and switched.  I don’t do anything different on the Mac than I did on the PC but the …

My inbox is cluttered as is the case for most. The SPAM filters have gotten better and better, not perfect but I would say impressive at this point given the levels of SPAM out there and the trickery used by SPAMMERS. My Inbox is now cluttered with “JAM” – emails that I have opted into …

I love my iPad and my iPhone but I use them very differently. my iPhone is loaded with apps that I use daily. on the iPad I read books, watch videos, email and surf the web but there aren’t many apps that i use daily. the web experience is good enough that I don’t really …

if facebook is all about new content as evident by the focus on the news feed then isn’t the switching cost low as all the important content is being posted now

Adobe’s market cap is at 16.84 billion. With Apple pointing a gun at Flash and talking up HTML5 I wonder if Microsoft will swoop in and buy Adobe. Sure Microsoft has a competitive platform in Silverlight but Flash is ubiquitous, has a lot of developer support and is a brand name on the web. Microsoft …

As of 2:55 EST, AAPL’s market cap has passed MSFT – WOW!

Apple is closing in fast. Their market cap is at 225 Billion today and MSFT is at 230 Billion. Apple has a developer conference in early June with some new announcements that according to CEO Steve Jobs “will not disappoint.” I suspect we see a spike during the conference that puts Apple over the top, …

Mobile is becoming too important too quickly and it seems that Microsoft is on the sidelines watching as Apple and Google take ownership of this market, a market neither was in 3 years ago. RIM and its Blackberry branded devices are still moving a lot of smartphones and people still love em but I’m not …

I’ve posted before on the topic of what, if anything, could lead to Facebook’s demise. They are on such a roll right now that it would seem impossible to slow them down but all things end. Myspace looked to be on the same path at one point and there was a time when Microsoft seemed …

There are now 200,000+ apps in the app store and the days of build it and they will come are over. However, the opportunity still exists on the iPhone and other mobile platforms, mostly Android but you need to know how to get found.    1) Name your app well. Search in the app store …

A link to this page http://willmoffat.github.com/FacebookSearch/ was posted on TechCrunch today and while the story was all about privacy I think the missing story is all about Search. The story highlights privacy concerns by showing a search for “playing hooky” and shows many users who announced on their profiles that they are taking a day …

I launched a web site back in 2004 and used Google Adwords to build up the initial audience. At the time, I was buying clicks for about 10 cents a piece and was able to build a base of users to get the site going. From there its all been word of mouth and search …

I see a lot of cloud only services out there, meaning web sites that don’t do much more than connect a variety of cloud services, often called a mashup. For example, taking Craiglist postings and showing them on a Google map was one of the first cloud only services that I saw but there are …

People find things on the web in 2 ways. Search (mostly Google) and word of mouth. That word of mouth is changing as people tweet, “like” on Facebook, txt, IM and email but I find a common mistake with start-ups, and I’m guilty myself, is to try and do too much. If you can’t explain …

Many brands today have both a Twitter Page and a Facebook Page or several of each. Clearly there is momentum on both sites, huge momentum and it is important to be in both places but given that resources are often scarce and you may have to choose which to invest more in, where is the …

In looking at registrations to some of the sites that I’m involved with, I’ve notice some incredible trends over the last few months. First mobile is growing like crazy but from what I’m seeing its not mobile web browsing. It’s all about the apps. Well that is not great news for developers who now have …

One thing I’ve learned but never listened to my own advice in building a web start-up is, build the API first. There will be a time that your API will become incredible valuable and for some sites (Twitter and Flickr are both great examples) it becomes your biggest asset. It can create distribution in a …

There is lots of speculation about whether Apple will catch MSFT in terms of market cap. Apple is on a bender right now with the iPhone, iPod, iPad and Mac sales and who knows what they will announce next. Adding Verizon to the iPhone family would certainly add a lot more iPhones but may change …

Verisign, the Mountain View Company that controls, the top level domain name servers for .com and .net announced a small hike in the fees for registering a .com domain. Fees will go up 7% from $6.86 per year to $7.34 per year to register a domain name. While I believe in the open-ness of the …

In less than a month since its release, Apple has sold its 1 millionth iPad according to an Apple announcement this morning. 1 million in a month and they haven’t even begun selling outside the U.S. Analysts were predicting 3-5 million prior to its launch and I’m sure are scrambling to redefine those numbers. With …

It seems like each year over the last several years there is a new darling that pops up and is the next big thing. Twitter has been in the spotlight for a while, who’s next? Flickr, in my opinion, put Web 2.0 on the map with their photo sharing service and API to enable third …

iPhone users, what is your threshold for price on a paid app? At what point are you willing to say “screw it” I’ll give it a try. Is there a difference between 99 cents and 1.99. I’ve played around with pricing on the apps I have in the app store between 99 cents up to …

Just like a decade ago before Google came on the scene, the web was a mess. It was relatively easy to find “short tail” content like news, weather and sports but Google really solved the long tail which made the web infinitely more useful. There are billions of pages, thousands of new sites popping up …

According to the Google Blog, the search giant is expanding a feature its had for a while to make it more prominent which is showing pages that are similar to the ones you see in the results. This is an interesting move in light of Facebook’s announcement last week on their “Like” button. The difference …

I’ve been Facebook focused this week in my posts as their announcements last week stirred up a lot of thoughts. You have probably noticed the “like” button on a lot of web sites recently, including this one (see below). This was something Facebook announced last week and it enables web publishers to easily let their …

Facebook is on a huge roll right now approaching 500 million users worldwide. Most measurement services have them in the top 5 and some in the top 2 of most heavily trafficed websites in the world. They are in Google’s league in traffic and also starting to make traction with revenue. While they are not …

I’ve been involved with mobile devices, software and infrastructure for the past 10 years in one way or another so I’ve had the benefit of seeing new devices ahead of launch, experience new technologies before they were available to consumers and certainly listened to industry experts predict the future. I’ve had Blackberrys, a Danger sidekick, …

Whether you are The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal or a blog like www.statclicks.com, how will you ultimately be rewarded for your content. Prior to the internet, newspapers made a ton of money from classifieds. In 1997 classifieds represented 41% of newspaper revenue, according to this article and fell to 28% by the …

Apple has defined themselves as a mobile devices company. With the amazing success of the iPod, iPhone and now what appears to be another home run with the iPad, it seems they are onto something. Clearly, their laptops are mobile devices and have been successful for a long time but the collection of categories that …

According to this post this morning on Google’s blog, 1 out of every 5 searches on Google is related to location. A reports from March 2009 had Google executing nearly 300 million searches per day which means 60 million location related searches every day and that is a year old so it is likely much …