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Alex Iskold at the ReadWriteWeb has cast another look at Geoffrey Moore’s “Crossing the Chasm”. The concept has been at the cornerstone of a lot of technology thinking. Even John O’Hara’s book “Commercialising Innovation” is heavily based on it. Alex has hit the nail on the head by highlighting the following problem …

The problem is that compared to a few years ago, the speed with which new technologies are coming to the market has increased dramatically. All these technologies are aimed at the early adopters. And they love it and they try it. But the question is what happens when your early adopters run off to play with a new great thing before you have a chance to take your technology mainstream?

Yesterday’s Friendster is today’s MySpace and tomorrow’s Facebook.



This is actually nothing new, Clayton Christensen’s “Innovator’s Dilemma” has a case study of the disk drive industry and shows how the disruptive innovations in the disk technology often left the current market leaders in the dust.

What is an entrepreneur to do ????

(This really should be your webpage as a graph. See below)

Just read an amazing post of a bunch of different data visualisation techniques and I spotted this one to visualise your website as a graph.

So I did a couple, here is ZoomIn

And here is Trade Me.

As you can see the trade me tree is a lot more dense!

You can build your own tree, visit the website as graph site and make your own !

What do the colors mean?
blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: all other tags

ProjectX is two years old today!

Que the music or the video (Gotta love Survivor!)

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“Search is part of the fundamental infrastructure of the Internet. And, it is currently broken.” – Jimmy Wales


Wikia has officially entered the search market, when they announced at OSCON that they were purchasing grub from Looksmart. Can they succeed where Yahoo, Microsoft, Ask and Altavista etc have failed?

From the press release…

“The desire to collaborate and support a transparent and open platform for search is clearly deeply exciting to both open source and businesses. Look for other exciting announcements in the coming months as we collectively work to free the judgment of information from invisible rules inside an algorithmic black box.”

If you’re interested you can find out more from Search Wikia page

With an open source search engine, all sorts of applications and mashups will be possible. That begs the question? Who do you trust more Google or Wikipedia ?