Comments on: The Widget Economy Heats Up http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/02/12/the-widget-economy-heats-up/ Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me Thu, 17 May 2012 21:05:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Netvibes video: Widgets kill the webpage star? « MM http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/02/12/the-widget-economy-heats-up/comment-page-1/#comment-316304 Netvibes video: Widgets kill the webpage star? « MM Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:50:04 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/02/12/the-widget-economy-heats-up/#comment-316304 [...] Nolan at Venture Chronicles feels validated, as even last September Business2.0 was on to the disruption of the big portal players, citing this [...] [...] Nolan at Venture Chronicles feels validated, as even last September Business2.0 was on to the disruption of the big portal players, citing this [...]

]]> By: Netvibes video: Widgets kill the webpage star? at Matt MacQueen http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/02/12/the-widget-economy-heats-up/comment-page-1/#comment-77896 Netvibes video: Widgets kill the webpage star? at Matt MacQueen Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:52:17 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/02/12/the-widget-economy-heats-up/#comment-77896 [...] Jeff Nolan at Venture Chronicles feels validated, as even last September Business2.0 was on to the disruption of the big portal players, citing this bit on user empowerment, open platform, and good old fashioned usability as a differentiator: The real threat to established portals, however, comes from the impressive speed and unprecedented drag-and-drop simplicity of the site’s customization tools. With Netvibes, users can rapidly change the look of their start page, select content, add RSS feeds, and custom-build features from other Netvibes users. Any e-mail feed can be put on Netvibes; My Yahoo users can choose only Yahoo’s e-mail option. “Netvibes makes it brain-dead easy,” says Charlene Li, a principal analyst at Forrester Research who has been using Netvibes.com as her start page for months. [...] [...] Jeff Nolan at Venture Chronicles feels validated, as even last September Business2.0 was on to the disruption of the big portal players, citing this bit on user empowerment, open platform, and good old fashioned usability as a differentiator: The real threat to established portals, however, comes from the impressive speed and unprecedented drag-and-drop simplicity of the site’s customization tools. With Netvibes, users can rapidly change the look of their start page, select content, add RSS feeds, and custom-build features from other Netvibes users. Any e-mail feed can be put on Netvibes; My Yahoo users can choose only Yahoo’s e-mail option. “Netvibes makes it brain-dead easy,” says Charlene Li, a principal analyst at Forrester Research who has been using Netvibes.com as her start page for months. [...]

]]> By: Paul Sweeney http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/02/12/the-widget-economy-heats-up/comment-page-1/#comment-77190 Paul Sweeney Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:50:48 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/02/12/the-widget-economy-heats-up/#comment-77190 Perhaps this is a sidebar note to the conversation, but it would seem that the ability to leave customers design their own "front end" using widgets is not in and of itself infinitely value adding. Some commentators believe that it will create unusable front ends, and that it creates "too much choice" (you could even say discontinuous return on attention). Others (Umair at www.bubblegeneration.com) believe that those that enable and facilitate "messyness" and "edge competencies" will be successful. My own belief is that some aspect of "information chunking" and "granularity" will prove the key factors. How far down into the service do you want to make choices about, and how much value can be extracted out of the box without doing hardly anything at all. Again, I'm no expert. Perhaps this is a sidebar note to the conversation, but it would seem that the ability to leave customers design their own “front end” using widgets is not in and of itself infinitely value adding. Some commentators believe that it will create unusable front ends, and that it creates “too much choice” (you could even say discontinuous return on attention). Others (Umair at http://www.bubblegeneration.com) believe that those that enable and facilitate “messyness” and “edge competencies” will be successful. My own belief is that some aspect of “information chunking” and “granularity” will prove the key factors. How far down into the service do you want to make choices about, and how much value can be extracted out of the box without doing hardly anything at all. Again, I’m no expert.

]]> By: StartupSquad » Blog Archive » Webservices, Mashups, and Money http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/02/12/the-widget-economy-heats-up/comment-page-1/#comment-77049 StartupSquad » Blog Archive » Webservices, Mashups, and Money Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:53:30 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/02/12/the-widget-economy-heats-up/#comment-77049 [...] Webservices is the word around everywhere. Yahoo officially got into the mashup game last week with Yahoo Pipes, and while going through Jeff’s blog I found out that Microsoft is also in the fray. This development came up yesterday when Microsoft announced its new mashup platform NetworkMashups at 3GSM conference. NetworkMashups is supposed to make it easy to build, deploy, and generate revenues from mashups. There is a host to documentation and downloads to go through before you can really get started. Comparing to Proto, or Yahoo Pipes, or Dapper, or Teqlo, NetworkMashups play seems to be in the enterprise or commercial space. [...] [...] Webservices is the word around everywhere. Yahoo officially got into the mashup game last week with Yahoo Pipes, and while going through Jeff’s blog I found out that Microsoft is also in the fray. This development came up yesterday when Microsoft announced its new mashup platform NetworkMashups at 3GSM conference. NetworkMashups is supposed to make it easy to build, deploy, and generate revenues from mashups. There is a host to documentation and downloads to go through before you can really get started. Comparing to Proto, or Yahoo Pipes, or Dapper, or Teqlo, NetworkMashups play seems to be in the enterprise or commercial space. [...]

]]> By: Jeff http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/02/12/the-widget-economy-heats-up/comment-page-1/#comment-77006 Jeff Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:11:05 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/02/12/the-widget-economy-heats-up/#comment-77006 Paul, I think that's a fair analysis. While trendy to say the field is wide open and no clear leader exists, I do think the foundation blocks are being laid and the building frame constructed, which means we have a responsibility to articulate why we matter and how we fit. We're up to the task and working on some cool stuff that shows integration with Pipes. Paul,
I think that’s a fair analysis. While trendy to say the field is wide open and no clear leader exists, I do think the foundation blocks are being laid and the building frame constructed, which means we have a responsibility to articulate why we matter and how we fit.

We’re up to the task and working on some cool stuff that shows integration with Pipes.

]]> By: Paul Sweeney http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/02/12/the-widget-economy-heats-up/comment-page-1/#comment-76985 Paul Sweeney Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:10:12 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/02/12/the-widget-economy-heats-up/#comment-76985 One of the things you might consider here is what theorists call "path dependencies". For instance, you come out of SAP Enterprise, you understand Oracle strategy etc. NetVibes are a consumer play. If the overall concern held true, then Netvibes, PageFlakes et al should all be more concerned about Google than anything else. Just my opinion. One of the things you might consider here is what theorists call “path dependencies”. For instance, you come out of SAP Enterprise, you understand Oracle strategy etc. NetVibes are a consumer play. If the overall concern held true, then Netvibes, PageFlakes et al should all be more concerned about Google than anything else. Just my opinion.

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