Think that all of the great Web sites have already been invented?
Think again.
The Internet is evolving in new and inventive ways thanks to
mashups that pull data from all over the Web and to AJAX-based
interfaces that give sites the same degree of interactivity and
responsiveness that desktop apps possess.
Click here for PC World’s top 25 innovative Web sites and services
that are well worth watching.
In August, less than three months after the introduction of Apple’s iPhone, a New Jersey teen announced that he had “hacked” into the mobile-communications device. The hacker was clearly expressing the frustration that many consumers feel towards Apple for adopting a “walled garden” — as opposed to an “open architecture” or “open plain” — corporate strategy. While the walled garden approach often restricts consumers’ ability to modify devices or marry them with other firms’ products and services, the open architecture approach has its drawbacks as well. Wharton faculty and others look at the advantages and disadvantages — for both consumers and companies — of these two strategies.
More at Knowledge@Wharton
Watch out, Microsoft, GE, United, AT&T, and, yes, even Google.
Here come 15 game-changing startups with plans to upend existing
industries and spawn new opportunities for the rest of us.
More at Business2