Category: Business models
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Do I want users or cash flow from my new product?
There is an eternal debate about which is more valuable, users or cash flow. There is no right answer because it depends on your business and your business plan and what you want to do with your product but asking the question is always valuable. The mobile wars have added a new twist to this…
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HP rocks Microsoft with webOS PC play
I have always wondered why HP bought Palm and its WebOs. Now it makes sense to me. This is a convergence play. We have Google with Chrome/Android, Apple with Mac/Ios leaving Microsoft with the great big windows Windows and the little boy no-one wants to play with, Windows Phone. (see update below) HP rocks Redmond…
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ColdFusion is a high level language; why does it capture less value?
I am a project manager and I have worked with both ColdFusion and Java development teams. I have often wondered why it is that ColdFusion developers get about 60% of the rate of the comparably skilled Java developer. ColdFusion is a high level language. The built-in features including authentication, search, clustering, image processing etc means…
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Apps is the new Web: sowing the seeds for Web 3.0 | VisionMobile :: blog
Another very insightful article from VisionMobile. What I thought was very interesting was that the author sees handset manufacturers adopting web technologies as a primary way delivering apps to a non-iphone and non-Android handsets. via Apps is the new Web: sowing the seeds for Web 3.0 | VisionMobile :: blog.
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Relative popularity of Java, ASP, Perl, PHP and Scala in print
When deciding what programming language to use for a project the answer is always “the one your team can use!” but even so it is interesting to compare the trends in the market. I have used Google Ngram Viewer to compare the frequency with which the names of various programming languages appear in books. If…
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iPad media apps: Stealthed hobbits thwart Google’s flaming Eye • The Register
This is a very interesting article. It wonders if we might see the “App” model moving to the desktop. Opinion Tablet media applications have a Google invisibility cloak around their stories. As this spreads a deadly revenue-denying dart could penetrate Google’s media business model. eyeofSauron ‘There is no hope in the void’ The worldwide web…
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Who should own the IP in a new venture II
Last week I briefly discussed the contentious issue of who should own the IP in a new venture. One reader made the offline comment that I seemed to saying that IP had no value and people really should not worry about it too much. They asked that I justify this position. What I am saying…
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Who should own the IP in a new venture?
The most contentious part of any new product development is often the question of who should own the existing IP (intellectual property). This is wrong, what each party should concern themselves with is who should own the future revenue. Personally, I would be happy for my partner to own all the IP if I get…
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Mobile Developer Economics 2010: The migration of developer mindshare | VisionMobile :: blog
Thanks to Ian M. for pointing out this great report (pdf) on mobile app development. In gives a very comprehensive view of the development ecosystem. Mobile Developer Economics 2010 and Beyond via VisionMobile :: research reports. Here is a small except taken from the author’s synopsis in his blog. The charts in the original article…
Dr James Bayley 