web watch in comment and analysis
Will's Web Watch: Marc Benioff's 'field of dreams'
Comment Growing in numbers, growing in speed, Can't fight the future, Can't fight what I see. People they come together. Far be it from me to fall into the pretentious trap of opening a column with some loosely justified song lyrics but those lines - from... [31 May 2006]
Will's Web Watch: At the heart of web 2.0
Comment San Francisco regularly hosts events that teach entrepreneurs how to sell off their companies, such is the intention to keep moving and innovating while web 2.0 is the hottest of red-hot watch words. Is web 2.0 more than just the latest buzzword? [12 May 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: The new age of web ads
Comment The outcome should be that the market for advertising disappears, and we are left having to pay full rate for what we want to watch. So, all of a sudden, we have a massive choice of programmes that we can choose to watch, when we want to watch them... [28 Apr 2006]
Leader: Web brands take the battle to the high street
Leader It's already looking at credit cards, and other payment methods are likely to follow - the banks had better watch out. PayPal is one of a number of companies that is looking to extend its reach from the internet into bricks and mortar. [21 Mar 2006]
Will's Web Watch: Been let down by an e-tailer?
Comment What can e-tailers do to keep customers happy and prevent churn? That depends on just what sort of products or services they sell, says Will Sturgeon. Those of us who have regularly shopped online for some time now will have our favourite sites... [08 Mar 2006]
Will's Web Watch: What's the story dawning e-Tory?
Comment When you find yourself talking to a Conservative politician who understands technology and the genuine benefits it can deliver to democracy you start to realise that we do indeed live in strange times. [24 Feb 2006]
Radioactive: Crazy Frog's legacy - it's boomtime for ringtones
Comment At an October 2005 Web 2.0 conference session, on the Future of Entertainment, ex-FCC head Michael Powell joked that his son said music should be free even though he spent $40 a month on ringtones. It was a bumper year for the UK ringtone market. [16 Jan 2006]
The anti-establishment vote
AS Analysis The 2005 Agenda Setters panel proved that though they believe the predictable government officials and big-name tech CEOs do indeed influence the IT industry, those fighting the established order are also ones to watch. [26 Sep 2005]
Mark Cuban
AS Profile So watch this space. In the same way Google realised there was more value in organising web content than producing it, so Cuban has realised the value of bringing order to the world of blogs. And he knows a thing or two about the web, having sold... [23 Sep 2005]
Will's Web Watch: Blogging (Part II)
Comment In the second instalment of his two-part column on the blog phenomenon (see part one), Will Sturgeon looks at the reasons why more and more companies are taking the well-trodden path towards offering corporate blogs, aimed at providing an insight... [30 Aug 2005]
Will's Web Watch: Blogging (Part I)
Comment On this level blogs are complementary and entirely valuable, in some respects even reinvigorating web surfers and challenging them to constantly assess the way they consume media. Blogging: have you bought into the idea that this is the new power... [24 Aug 2005]
Will's Web Watch: Introducing the new look silicon.com
Comment Watch this space. Hopefully you've noticed by now there have been some serious changes. Some are purely aesthetic, of course, but many are functional and some are introducing brand new content types and redressing what we've recognised as a shift... [04 Jul 2005]
Will's Web Watch: easy, easy, easy...
Comment It's hardly opening up unexplored channels of the internet to you if I point out that Stelios and his Easy empire have moved into the online travel and car hire markets, but even though I consider myself pretty web-savvy and aware of the majority... [20 Apr 2005]
Will's Web Watch: Could Jamie Oliver change the world?
Comment I readily admit I've struggled to be complimentary about the ubiquitous mockney in the past and Oliver has been something of a hate-figure for many web users, more prone to derision than praise but now the web is at the heart of his own populist... [21 Mar 2005]
3GSM Diary: Jolie, Auntie's IMP and content vs apps
Comment Those assembled towards the end of the day heard how his customers watch 400,000 video clips per week, how "2G can never fully deliver the complex communications needs users have". Or that plans for a web-based, Tivo-like on-demand console called... [17 Feb 2005]
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