Richard MacManus at ZDNet writes his view on Web 2.0 clone applications. He observed that every country has its set of Web 2.0 clones — bookmarking sites that looks del.icio.us, photo sharing sites that like Flickr, social networking sites like MySpace, community news sites like digg, etc. He criticizes those Web 2.0 clones being non-innovative.
It’s true that most of the clone apps don’t come with innovative ideas, but it would be unwise to think that they totally have no values. Contrary to Richard’s point of view, I think clone apps are essential ingredients in helping the IT business in developing countries to become innovative.
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Posted in Business | October 4th, 2006 by harrychen |
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Information overflow is persistent problem in enterprise computing. Users in this environment are usually flooded with information that can’t be easily processed due to their limited resources (e.g., time and financial cost). One way to solve this problem is to explicitly represent the semantics of this information, so that it can be better searched and presented to the users.
Thetus Corporation is one of the companies that adopt a semantic-approach to solve information overflow problems. The basic framework of Thetus’s software system evolves around the idea of unifying distributed data into a single semantic structure.
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Posted in Business | July 14th, 2006 by harrychen |
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