The Impact of Bandwidth Costs
Jesse Chan | January 17th, 2008 | 5 Comments
Bandwidth costs greatly impact profit margins of organizations that deliver enormous amounts of data. Several products and services that are immediately impacted by bandwidth costs are:
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Reduce Platform Switching Barriers
Jesse Chan | December 24th, 2007 | 1 Comment
The computing platform is what matters. It’s one thing if you’re the big fish with THE platform. But what do you do when you’re the small fish, your competitor already owns the dominant platform, and has millions of customers? How do you switch customers to your platform? Answer: Reduce the platform switching […]
10 Ways To Go Viral
Jesse Chan | November 1st, 2007 | 3 Comments
We’ve all seen it before, a small company comes out of nowhere and takes the world by storm. Within days everyone seems to know about them. How is this possible? Many times this happens by accident, but other times, it has been carefully planned out to go viral — spreading the news […]
The Platform Is What Matters
Jesse Chan | October 17th, 2007 | 12 Comments
Today, Steve Jobs mentioned that the Apple iPhone will finally opening up for third-party application development in February 2008. Apple will provide a iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK) for developers to create applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
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10 Things on My Google Wish List
Jesse Chan | October 12th, 2007 | 3 Comments
Google is an amazing company. I have written quite extensively on the merits of their technologies and platforms. However, as with every corporation, there are improvements that can be made to their product line.
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Social Network Wars
Jesse Chan | September 22nd, 2007 | 6 Comments
The interesting thing about social networks, like other forms of social media, is that users create the content. A social network becomes more valuable as more users join and get connected with other users. This is known as network effects.
It is not necessarily the best social network that wins — in terms […]
Mashable
Jesse Chan | September 14th, 2007 | No Comments
Mashable is the largest blog focused on social networking. Like TechCrunch, it has an amazing amount of coverage and, surprisingly, launched at nearly the same time. Mashable was launched by Pete Cashmore in July 2005. Currently, it has over 5 million page views per month, making it one of the most popular […]
Google’s Trading Floor
Jesse Chan | August 30th, 2007 | 10 Comments
Google dominates the online space. Google is often our homepage and the first place we go to when we open a web browser. We use Google Web Search when we’re looking for something on the Web. We use GMail to read and write email. We use Google Maps to get directions or find […]
What is a Social Graph?
Jesse Chan | August 25th, 2007 | 8 Comments
by GustavoG
Facebook is about to launch personal ads. Google already targets advertising to personal, search queries and a website’s content. Both approaches are in the early stages of utilizing a social graph.
A social graph takes into account how people are interconnected. Similar in concept of how Google’s PageRank algorithm takes into account […]
Digg Dugg
Jesse Chan | August 23rd, 2007 | 2 Comments
Digg is a phenomenon. It has eclipsed other social content, news sites such as Slashdot and kuro5hin. Launched in 2004, by Kevin Rose, Owen Byrne, Ron Gorodetzky, and Jay Adelson (who serves as CEO), it has quickly surpassed its rivals. Now, other popular news sites are mimicking its design and features. […]