: E commerce Views: September 2006

E commerce Views

Hi, Am really passionate about emerging trends on the internet...Web 2.0 excites me.... So I figured I would share it with u guys... What I believe is the next big thing or can be harnessed as a revenue channel...or is just something that excites me for some reason... Oh btw these views are entirely personal and not meant to hurt anyone’s sentiments Cheers Aks

Saturday, September 23, 2006

The eventuality of the content powerhouse - internet

I go online and try and look up something...lets take a product for instance...go to about 50 sites which have the same product and write things about it...what do i do...what do i believe...

Simple idea...this happened in everyday life too...with other offline products...
lets take light bulbs for example...there were a lot of them...eventually there was one neutral company which tested it...tested all the light bulbs and then gave it the ISI mark...(India)..so we have some1 to believe

So basically there is one firm which tells me that this company makes bulbs which have been tried and tested...

Exactly what I believe will be a necessary eventuality on the internet...A site which standardizes the content of other sites...

Like Verisign stamps its logo on a secure site...this entity will stamp its confirmation on information...

Microsoft - Live (Maps and other things)

Did you check out live.com...check out the new personalized microsoft homepage...really liked the interface...


So they copied the whole Google labs...with the maps..web tools...etc etc
they say that any one who comes up with a product already there in the market they need to be 20 times better to make it work...
this one fails this test though...

I know one product which doesn't the new Microsoft maps...
I saw google earth quite a while back and this product puts it to shame...

especially for people from india...check out the push pin concept...
right click on any location in india and select 'from'
then right click some other location and select 'to'
and click on get directions....and lo!!!

It tells u the directions with all the turns and the distances to each turn with an accuracy of 0.5 miles!!!

Really neat....

As a google fan all I can say is...lets c what they come out with!!!

Do no evil ;)