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 …