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Community and Content: Business Week's Business Exchange
Posted 30 Jun 2009 by John EckmanTags: Assembled Web, Blogs, business, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Community, Content Management, content syndication, Crowdsource, media, Media and Publishing, new media, online, Platform, publishing, Recommendations, Social Networking, Strategy, Syndication, Twitter, User Generated Content, Web 2.0

Earlier this month, during the MediaBistro Circus, John A Byrne (@johnabyrne on twitter) spoke about how Business Week is transforming itself, engaging with users, and taking advantage of new opportunities to bring commun + Read more

GPSies Top 25 App in German AppStore
Posted 11 Jun 2009 by Optaros Tags: Assembled Web, Mobile

GPSies is the 17th most popular navigation application in the German app store. Thank you all for the great reviews. Some of the reviews from Germany here: + Read more

Revaluation of Social Networks
Posted 09 Jun 2009 by Optaros Tags: Assembled Web, Mobile

Techcrunch has published their True Value of Social Networks Report for 2009 and the information actually made it on the front page of today’s tagesanzeiger. + Read more

Why Google Waves might be the next big thing
Posted 05 Jun 2009 by Optaros Tags: Assembled Web, Mobile

I remember writing email to only to three other students in the CS lab and to the one other admin that I worked with as a student. It was not really reliable, because you had no idea when and if at all the person would actually get the message (”Did you get my email about…”) and there were hardy any people that would have an email address (that they knew of or had proper access to). The other cool thing at the time where SMS text messages. + Read more

Cross browser and platform testing in a single browser
Posted 03 Jun 2009 by Optaros Tags: Assembled Web, Mobile

Ever since the times of Netscape and the early Internet Explorer versions we have been discussing useful cross browser testing setups. I’ve seen through my career as (web-)developer, tech lead, test lead, project manager and account manager very different setups of addressing the issue of different behaviors of webpages and applications in different browsers because of different maturity levels of the software and different sets of standards and their interpretation implemented. + Read more

Ohloh! open source directory acquired by SourceForge
Posted 31 May 2009 by Optaros Tags: Assembled Web, Mobile

On Thursday SourceForge announced the acquisition of Ohloh!, an open source code and community directory that I have been following myself while + Read more

OpenID Support and Gmail Login for Facebook [Update]
Posted 19 May 2009 by Optaros Tags: Assembled Web, Mobile

After opening the API for the news feed recently, Facebook announced end of April that they were working on OpenID support for signle-sign-on. Not even four weeks later you can select Google, MySpace, Yahoo, Vidoop, Myopenid and OpenID as linked account options. + Read more

Plan for tomorrow
Posted 16 May 2009 by Optaros Tags: Assembled Web, Mobile

This is the plan for tomorrow’s route. Ping me by midnight if you want to join in.   No need to mention I guess, that I will use the GPSies iPhone GPS Logger Application to track the tour. + Read more

GPSies for iPhone GPS Logger available on the iTunes AppStore
Posted 21 Apr 2009 by Optaros Tags: Assembled Web, Mobile

The iPhone GPS Logger is finally online and available in the iTunes AppStore: GPSies is the most easy to use iPhone Application that allows you to geo trac + Read more

Video Demo of Application Syndication with OView
Posted 16 Apr 2009 by Jim MunzTags: application syndication, Assembled Web, Content Marketing, content syndication, Facebook, Marketing, Media Advertising, Media and Publishing, multi-channel, Online Advertising, Online Marketing, oview, SaaS, Solutions, sports marketing, syndicate, Syndication, Video

Video demos of the Patriots Calendar App are provided to help you understand what is available for the fan of the New England Patriots and how we are managing this cross channel/cross domain micro-experience through OView. The Fan Experience + Read more

Sociable Ads: The Future or Advertising, or Just Another Banner?
Posted 14 Apr 2009 by John EckmanTags: Advertising, Advertising Landscape, Assembled Web, Business Model, Community, Marketing, media, Media Advertising, Metrics, Online Advertising, oview, Performance, Platform, Social Networking, Twitter, Web 2.0, Widget

Given the number of users who deploy ad-blocking software in their browsers, and the complete blindness to banner ads exhibited by most website users who haven't bothered to deploy ad blockers, it isn't surprising that the industry continues to seek a replacement (or at least a supplement) for the standard banner ad. + Read more

Leveraging APIs to Grow Your Digital Footprint
Posted 13 Apr 2009 by John EckmanTags: Advertising, API, application syndication, Assembled Web, Business Model, Community, Content Management, content syndication, Crowdsource, Digital Media, Distributed Development, long-tail, media, Media Advertising, Media and Publishing, Online Advertising, Open Innovation, Open Source, publishing, Social Networking, syndicate, User Experience, Web 2.0

While non-profit, community-oriented public radio stations aren't usually seen as being at the forefront of Internet technology, National Public Radio has been quietly making very impressive moves in adjusting to a new set of user expectations and technologies we've termed the Assembled Web. + Read more

First cycling tour this year: Half a Pfannenstiel
Posted 05 Apr 2009 by Optaros Tags: Assembled Web, Mobile

Loic and I did a little tour today to warm up for the season:   + Read more

Best of Swiss Web 2009
Posted 03 Apr 2009 by Optaros Tags: Assembled Web, Mobile

The Best of Swiss Web Awards are the most coveted awards for e-business, Internet and mobile projects in Switzerland since 2001. A total of 277 projects were submitted to the jury this year in eight categories. + Read more

Acquia and Alfresco Partner with Optaros for First Drupal CMIS Interface
Posted 25 Feb 2009 by Optaros Tags: Assembled Web, CMIS, Mobile

Content management interoperability services (CMIS) enables easy information sharing across Drupal and Alfresco platforms. + Read more