Yahoo Moves Widgets to the Mobile Masses
Yahoo has made headlines from its new mobile strategy, announced this week at CES. The details have been widely reported (see here), but the announcement is particularly interesting to me because it is the first attempt by a major internet player to provide a general purpose widget API designed specifically for the mobile [...]
Towards a Federation of Widgets
The result of Facebook’s recent decision to open their API to third party developers is that application providers suddenly have a chance to reach millions of eyeballs with virtually no sales or marketing expense. A clever application can grow virally at a pace never before possible.
One such benefactor of this phenomenon is RockYou, [...]
Google vs. the Telcos – a Timeline
Tomorrow, July 31, the FCC will vote on the bidding rules to be employed for the upcoming 700Mhz wireless frequency auction. The outcome is of paramount importance to the future of the Internet in the United States. At issue is whether the bidding rules will be designed to thwart the monopolistic tendencies [...]
WSJ on Wireless Network Neutrality
Today’s Wall Street Journal had an interesting article (subscription required) on the current state of the wireless walled garden. It cites several recent clashes between handset vendors and cellcos over the extent to which consumers can use their phones to access non cellco content. Says the Journal:
At stake for consumers are what [...]