Last night, I heard that WikiLeaks exposed the positions of each country’s main structures and strategic places such as gas pipeline, canals and undersea cables. It worries people that these places might be attacked by terrorists. WikiLeaks says that they are pursuing an even world without leaning too much toward a few of countries. So […]
I saw the movie, Social network. It was passionate story about the founder of Facebook. This movie is dealing with the conflict between Mark Zuckerberg and other people which is closely related with Facebook. In my opinion, there are three reasons that Facebook could grow as a successful SNS. 1. Innovative ideas and differentiated plan […]
An e book market is getting larger. According to the advent of new devices, the competition between e book providers is so intense. And Google would launch its service, Google Edition against traditional e book providers such as Amazon, Apple. Until now, Google can’t be aggressive in this market. Normally traditional market leaders have their […]
The number of social networking service users are rapidly increasing. And many services are made by the basis of Facebook or Twitter. There are some successful examples such as Zynga and Tweetdeck. And here is an interesting web browser called as ‘Rockmelt’. This web browser is based on Facebook. If you agree with that the […]
I read the article about the growth of Twitter and Zynga. These two articles are separately written by the same writer, Emma Barnett of Telegraph. One interesting point is that they have not commonly defined the long-term goal of the company. Zynga’s founder, Mark Pincus, doesn’t have any thought to sell the company but only […]
There’s smart applications which read barcodes. Even some applications embeds QR code scanning function as QR code is widely used for promotion and marketing. When I scan the item, a lot of information are provided. I can know the place that sells the item at a lowest price and how far from here. Like a […]
Acer, the 2nd PC manufacturer in the world, has released the series of tablet PCs. These tablet PCs support Windows7 and Android. Price would be key to succeed in this newly booming market. Especially as the former case of Folio 100 in England, high speculation with an expensive price is difficult to grab a customer’s […]
Finally Apple has released iOS4.2 on Monday(Nov. 22). It provides several new functions such as multitasking, folders, airprint and airplay. Now OS is getting more important than before. Especially after Google’s Froyo upgrade, many people expect Gingerbread would be nicer. A few days ago, Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, talked to De Telegraaf, a […]
Everyday I’ve read interesting news about commerce. According to the article of Reuters, there is the rumor that Groupon may be acquired by Google. It’s already started that the strategy of Google on commerce is progressing in detail. The representative example are acquisition of ‘Like.com’ and launching of ‘Boutiques.com.’ Groupon has already established its nationwide […]
Social shopping is widely used after the launch of Groupon. Many people frequently use this service for the reason why they can buy items cheap. So it makes people to buy items not by their needs but their competitive prices. For example, some people are busy to drop by shops and restaurants every weekends for […]