JamieG Analysis

Recently Philip Hodgetts remarked on how the future of digital media and advertising. http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2009/10/30/how-will-branded-media-replace-advertising/
I had visited this topic a few years ago in older posts.  Strangely enough looking back now, we do not seem any closer to many questions we need answered.  One of the big ones to me is:
Regional Price per item advertising can [...]

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As a developer I have noticed of late that it is much easier to get into development.  Development tools are all FREE, or can be obtained for a generous period for free and with greatly reduced cost compared to 5-10 years ago.
So what is going on.  Development tools are expensive to develop. Why are they [...]

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Recent trends developing between the big IT players, Google and Microsoft, are starting to paint a very interesting picture.  At PDC, Microsoft recent developer conference, they have announced Azure.  What is Azure? Well, it is Microsoft answer to Google and the future business model to carry Microsoft forward in a future where operating systems and [...]

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An interesting post on TechCrunch was pointed out to me today by Philip Hodgetts.  Philip has been putting his acceptance behind the open-web based around the push by Apple into WebKit/javascript and Javascript frameworks like Sproutcore. (Note this can also now be said for Google and the new Chrome browser) Today we have another contender [...]

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The Chrome browser really tells the story of what Google is about.  The one and most telling feature of Chrome, the Google Web Browser, is that it can treat each webpage as a sandbox. This is a revolution in browsing as it defines Googles hopes to make the Browser the operating system of the future.
It [...]

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