Archives for ‘October, 2006’

The Wisdom of Smart Crowds

The wisdom of crowds is an interesting topic that is very open to debate. Does it actually work? Can groups of people, experts and non-experts, really work together to create a good prediction market? James Surowiecki put together a great explanation, and a really good read, in his aptly named book, The Wisdom of Crowds.

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To Hide or To Show

One of the interesting differences between the mobile web and the desktop web, is that page weight is even more important on mobile devices. You can't just slap on a bunch of information and call it a home page. The information needs to be the most important, no more, no less.

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The Mobile Conundrum

"Individuals and businesses in more than 100 countries around the world registered more than 100,000 .mobi domains in the first four days of the domain’s general availability, demonstrating a strong demand for the next evolution of the Internet." [Mobile Monday][1]

This is great. It means that there is a demand for the mobile web. Not that it was all that much in question, but this type of growth is a good thing, or is it?

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