At many new Web sites and services, the creative energy of countless souls virtually crackles off the screen. They're cobbling together their own services from customizable Web sites and Lego-style pieces of Web software. By the millions, they're gathering and disseminating their own news with blogs and podcasts, creating customized article and photo feeds from their favorite sites and even annotating them with helpful text tags that others can search for on the Web site del.icio.us . They're producing their own entertainment on video, social-networking, game, and photo-sharing sites such as Yahoo's Flickr . At MySpace.com , some 21 million monthly visitors spend up to several hours a day sharing their thoughts, photos, and music with friends on personalized home pages. Ditto at Cyworld , which claims almost a third of South Korea's 48 million people as members.
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The dizzying array of new choices certainly has the potential to overwhelm casual Web surfers and time-strapped workers alike. "The average user is too busy" to mess around a lot, says Jakob Nielsen, a Web design expert with consultant Nielsen Norman Group. "They just want to get work done." Yet that's precisely the reason many of the new Web applications have taken off. "It's all about doing things," says Jason Fried, president of 37Signals, creator of Basecamp and Backpack, two wildly popular Web services that help small businesses and individuals manage projects and to-do lists. "Cool wears off. Usefulness never does."
As we like to say, "Once you have stormed the bastille, you don't go back to your day job."
Whilst the Economist said 2 April 2005
Many firms do not yet seem aware of the revolutionary implications of newly empowered consumers. Only those firms ready and able to serve these new customers will survive.
Since the offical Apple iphone 4 available, we can see people with white iphone 4 in their hands all around. Okay, i have to admire, i'm a little jealous.
Posted by: Henry Peise | December 24, 2010 at 08:15 AM