How to write a good API should be required watching for anyone having an app developed, and every one of their potential developers IMHO.
How to write a good API and why you need it
June 14th, 2010filibuster = talkblock
September 14th, 2009To coin a phrase:
Talkblock = filibuster
Personalized Video Content
August 22nd, 2008link
This video demonstrates using software to merge still photographs with video to produce astounding results. It’s best watched instead of explained.
It demonstrates super resolution video, high dynamic range video, enhanced video exposure, and most tellingly video object touchup/removal.
You can see how they are able to add, remove, and change objects in the video.
Now imagine combining that with the unwrap technology from Microsoft which allows you to extract texture maps, and reapply them after modification.
One of the immediate opportunities that springs to mind is in personalized videos.
From inserting your pictures into picture frames in videos, to changing the view out the window. or even to pasting your face onto the lead in a movie this kind of technology is going to enable a more personalized video or personalized movie experience.
This will probably lead initially to viral videos or promotional videos, as currently the processing time is high. As the technology improves the applications get even more interesting.
Visions of stock photos tied to your openID being used to personalize digital experiences come to mind. Maybe there will be a personalization photo tagging protocol?
Even before anything fancy like that a direct opportunity for monetization comes to mind – personalized custom porn.
*update looks like I left the link to the
Positive living
October 3rd, 2007Randy Pausch gives an incredibly inspiring final lecture. This is a great example of the economics of abundance in action.
The link is to the full version of his talk. You may want to skip to 2:15 in, however, the full version (as opposed to highlights) is an incredibly well spent hour and a half.
Open Mobile Handset
July 10th, 2007OpenMoko is a GNU / Linux based open software development platform. Developers have full access to OpenMoko source and they can tailor their implementations to underlying hardware platforms. -openmoko
Back in an old post about Mobile music & DRM I suggested that an open platform handset was a paradigm busting market opportunity.
OpenMoco seems to have gone there especially in their philosophy:
For the core team pushing this project, an open phone is not really even a product. It’s the very embodiment of their vision of technology. They absolutely, passionately, believe that something as fundamental to our lives as the mobile phone must be opened.
It seems like carrier-hopping, mesh-networking, flipt to SIP, P2P mobile apps that allow users persistent data access through dissemination networking are only a hop skip and a jump away. Especially the way the rate of change (delta) is increasing visions of ubiquitous computing loom large.
In the near term anything that helps with blurring the lines between carrier, ISP, peer, wifi access point, voice, VOIP, IM, and all of the other roles/participants in a networked conversation is welcome.
Of course all of this open opportunity means that it’s more important than every to focus on the metatheory. Whether you call them corporate constitutions or philosophy, more and more the purpose/goals of a company/platform/meme are as important if not more important than their current technological capabilities.
corporate constitutions based on theories of stakeholder justice {…} do what few strategic heuristics and frameworks are capable of in a world of growing hypercompetition, hyperimitation, and discontinuity: they unerringly guide decision makers towards defensible sources of value from which to craft revolutionary strategies. But more importantly, they define and shape purpose – which is, and always has been, the only mechanism for going beyond market advantage. – Umair Haque
It’s great to see what looks like a very serious player entering the market with a commitment FOSS type philosphies.
Viva La Revolucion!
A B Split Test Confidence Based Sample Size Calculator
January 24th, 2007
While the metatheory is the same regardless of what you are testing, this is an example of applied marketing theory. This tool is focused (labeled) on conversions (sales) as the datapoints, but you could just as easily use it for any other kind of success (such as opt-ins, free downloads, registrations etc).
Whether you call it AB split testing (or even A B C D E testing), using split testing software, conversion optimization, landing page optimization or any other name you still want to act on your tests as soon as possible.
The split test sample size calculator will show you how much traffic you need to send to each test segment, based on how confident you want to be in the results.
This part of the materials from the Metric & Analytical Marketing workshop at Internext-Expo. While the workshop was focused on adult website marketing, the tools & theory should be useful in almost any vertical.
Buying Adult Traffic
January 6th, 2007Draft
Buying adult traffic can sometimes be profitable, but it’s always tricky.
Different ways to look at traffic.
By how you pay:
CPC, CPM, flat rate, CPC, affiliate,
Types:
Hardcore, softcore, general,
Sources:
Search Engines, TGPs, MGPs, Tube Sites, p2p, blogs, CPC, linkdumps, forums, email
Ad Type:
popunder, popup, layover, pagepeel, banner, text ad,
XXX Traffic varies wildly by type, source, geography, behaviors, and even time of day. There are also a wide variety of terms that are used to define adult traffic. From hardcore meaning general adult traffic, to softcore, or even non-nude which can be misleading, to straight traffic, gay traffic, bisexual traffic, mixed traffic. Other source type are things such as clicked traffic, skimmed traffic, tube traffic, TGP traffic, MGP traffic, SEM traffic or CPC traffic, babeblog, moviepost, linkdump traffic
