August 31, 2009 at 12:28 pm
· Filed under Application Mashup, Business Ideas, Internet and Web, Thoughts
You might have a long list, which you can add in the comments section. But this is what I have.
I feel what Twitter should do (and guess youtube did it very well) is opening up dedicated streams for current events. Youtube captured presidential elections, live symphonies and what not very well claiming it’s leadership in the video space.
During Mumbai attacks, I was hoping Twitter will channelize tweets and open up “reviewed” tweets so that others can get updates etc; becoming defacto 140 char news source. I realize they have partially achieved this may be by showing the most talked about tweets/ topics or real time search (!!??) but may be I am looking more or refined feature from them.
Thoughts?
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February 18, 2009 at 6:00 pm
· Filed under Application Mashup, Business Ideas, Thoughts
I thought of starting a category which focuses on mashups of Web 2.0 applications. So instead of pulling social data from x number of places and arranging it on a new application, I think there is high time these entrepreneurs and VCs think of joining hands.
Now one can talk about several pros and cons of doing something like this. Without getting into it, all you have to understand is this:
- Users won’t have to remember URLs, login ids/ passwords and features
- They don’t have to worry about their distributed friend population across networks
- They won’t have to complain saying oh why is this feature not available in that application which is soooo much needed there also
I think the list is never ending. Now let me give you an example where I saw a partnership between two applications.
Tumblr has joined hands with Vimeo to host the videos of the users. Well, that makes sense to me.
So in this first post, I would like to suggest two applications which have some degree of overlap in their offering, should think about either sharing data/ UI/ features/ user base.
It will certainly be a win win situation for everyone.
Ning and Meetup
About Ning:
What makes your own social network on Ning special? It’s yours.Your brand and visual design. Your choice of public or private. Your very own members. Explore some of the features you’ll get:
http://about.ning.com/product.php
About Meetup:
Meetup is the world’s largest network of local groups. Meetup makes it easy for anyone to organize a local group or find one of the thousands already meeting up face-to-face. More than 2,000 groups get together in local communities each day, each one with the goal of improving themselves or their communities.
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Well, while writing this blog and reading more about Ning and Meetup, I came across profile of Brad Burnham who happens to be on the board of both Meetup and Ning 
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