RDF/XML Syntax Working Draft Published

Grok Headline matches for RDF/XML Syntax Working Draft Published

OWL Abstract Syntax and Semantics
Working Draft Published

OWL Abstract Syntax and Semantics
Working Draft Published 11/11/2002 03:18 PM
31 July 2002: The Web Ontology Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of OWL Abstract Syntax and Semantics. The draft is a high-level description of the OWL Web Ontology Language 1.0 and its subset OWL Lite. Automated tools can use common sets of terms called ontologies to power services such as more accurate Web search, intelligent software agents, and knowledge management. OWL is used to publish and share ontologies on the Web. Read about the W3C Semantic Web Activity. (News archive)

RDF Concepts and Abstract Syntax Working
Draft Published

RDF Concepts and Abstract Syntax Working
Draft Published 11/12/2002 06:47 PM
12 November 2002: The RDF Core Working Group has released a Working Draft of the Resource Description Framework (RDF) Concepts and Abstract Syntax (formerly named Concepts and Abstract Data Model). The draft defines the abstract graph syntax on which RDF is based. It discusses design goals, the meaning of RDF documents, key concepts, character normalization and handling of URI references. Read about the Semantic Web Activity. (News archive)

The W3C RDF Data Access Working Group
has published the first public working
draft of SPARQL Variable Binding

The W3C RDF Data Access Working Group
has published the first public working
draft of SPARQL Variable Binding 01/02/2005 11:31 AM
xmlhack Jan 2 2005 1:45PM GMT

SVG 1.2 Working Draft published (W3C)

SVG 1.2 Working Draft published (W3C) 11/18/2002 11:57 AM

xml:id Working Draft Published

xml:id Working Draft Published 04/09/2004 04:00 PM
2004-04-08: The XML Core Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of xml:id Version 1.0. The specification introduces a predefined attribute name that can always be treated as an ID and hence can always be recognized. Comments are welcome. Visit the XML home page. (News archive)

CSS 2.1 Working Draft Published

CSS 2.1 Working Draft Published 01/29/2003 03:04 PM
29 January 2003: Answering comments received during Last Call, the CSS Working Group has released an interim Working Draft of Cascading Style Sheets, Level 2 Revision 1 (CSS 2.1). Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a language used to render structured documents like HTML and XML on screen, on paper, and in speech. The draft brings CSS2 in line with implementations and CSS2 errata, and removes obsolete features. Visit the CSS home page. (News archive)

XML Events Working Draft published (W3C)

XML Events Working Draft published (W3C) 08/14/2002 09:16 AM

XHTML 2.0 Working Draft Published

XHTML 2.0 Working Draft Published 08/05/2002 10:43 PM
5 August 2002: The HTML Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of XHTML 2.0. XHTML 2.0 is a relative of the Web's familiar publishing languages, HTML 4 and XHTML 1.0 and 1.1, and is not intended to be backward compatible with them. The draft contains the XHTML 2.0 markup language in modules for creating rich, portable Web-based applications. Comments are welcome. Visit the HTML home page. (News archive)

HLink Working Draft Published

HLink Working Draft Published 09/13/2002 07:27 AM
13 September 2002: The HTML Working Group has published the first public Working Draft of HLink. The draft gives the XHTML Family the ability to specify which attributes represent hyperlinks, and how those hyperlinks should be traversed. Comments are welcome. Visit the HTML home page. (News archive)

CCXML Working Draft Published

CCXML Working Draft Published 10/15/2002 10:30 PM
15 October 2002: The Voice Browser Working Group has published the second public Working Draft of Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML Version 1.0. CCXML, the Call Control eXtensible Markup Language, provides telephony call control support for VoiceXML and other dialog systems. Comments are welcome. Visit the Voice Browser home page. (News archive)

XForms Working Draft Published

XForms Working Draft Published 08/21/2002 11:03 AM
21 August 2002: The XForms Working Group has released a Working Draft of XForms 1.0 incorporating all issues received during Last Call. Comments are welcome through 4 September. More flexible than previous HTML and XHTML form technologies, the new generation of Web forms separates purpose, presentation, and data. Visit the XForms home page. (News archive)

XML Events Working Draft Published

XML Events Working Draft Published 08/13/2002 07:01 AM
12 August 2002: The HTML Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of XML Events that incorporates comments received during Last Call. The specification defines a module used to associate behaviors with document-level markup for XML languages, and supports the DOM Level 2 event model. Comments are welcome. Visit the HTML home page. (News archive)

RDF Schema Working Draft Published

RDF Schema Working Draft Published 11/13/2002 05:07 PM
13 November 2002: The RDF Core Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of RDF Vocabulary Description Language 1.0: RDF Schema. The specification describes how to use RDF to describe RDF vocabularies, and defines a basic vocabulary and conventions that can be used by Semantic Web applications. Read about the Semantic Web Activity. (News archive)

XFrames Working Draft Published

XFrames Working Draft Published 08/06/2002 12:53 PM
6 August 2002: The HTML Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of XFrames. Replacing HTML frames, XFrames is an XML application for composing documents together that makes the content of framesets visible in their URIs. It addresses the usability, search and security problems associated with HTML frames. Comments are welcome. Read more on the HTML home page. (News archive)

EARL 1.0 Working Draft Published

EARL 1.0 Working Draft Published 12/06/2002 04:08 PM
6 December 2002: The Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of the Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) 1.0. The specification explains how to use EARL, a general-purpose language for expressing test results, and defines a basic vocabulary. Feedback is welcome. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative. (News archive)

XFrames Working Draft published (W3C)

XFrames Working Draft published (W3C) 08/08/2002 11:58 AM

DOM Level 3 Core Working Draft published
(W3C)

DOM Level 3 Core Working Draft published
(W3C) 10/23/2002 03:12 PM

DOM Level 3 Core Working Draft Published

DOM Level 3 Core Working Draft Published 10/22/2002 05:54 PM
22 October 2002: The DOM Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Specification. The Document Object Model (DOM) allows programs and scripts to update the content and style of documents dynamically. The draft introduces two new interfaces: TypeInfo and DOMConfiguration. Read about the DOM Activity. (News archive)

Ink Markup Language Working Draft
Published

Ink Markup Language Working Draft
Published 03/06/2004 01:50 AM
2004-02-23: The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has released a second Working Draft of the Ink Markup Language (InkML). The InkML data format is used to represent ink entered with an electronic pen or stylus. Ink-aware Web applications can process and exchange handwriting, gestures, sketches, music and other notational languages. Visit the Multimodal Interaction home page. (News archive)

XML Accessibility Guidelines Working
Draft Published

XML Accessibility Guidelines Working
Draft Published 10/08/2002 07:08 AM
3 October 2002: The WAI Protocols and Formats Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of XML Accessibility Guidelines. The draft is a guide for tools designers and authors of XML formats. It explains how to design accessible XML applications that lower barriers to Web accessibility for people with disabilities. Comments are welcome. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative. (News archive)

DOM Level 3 Events Working Draft
Published

DOM Level 3 Events Working Draft
Published 02/21/2003 03:41 PM
21 February 2003: The Document Object Model (DOM) Working Group has released a Working Draft of the DOM Level 3 Events specification. Comments are welcome. Language and platform neutral, the system allows registration of event handlers, describes event flow through a tree structure, and provides context for each event. Read about the DOM Activity. (News archive)

OWL Test Cases Working Draft Published

OWL Test Cases Working Draft Published 02/18/2003 06:20 PM
18 February 2003: The Web Ontology Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of Web Ontology Language (OWL) Test Cases. Designed for OWL developers, the draft is a companion to the OWL language definition. OWL is used to publish and share sets of terms called ontologies, providing advanced Web search, software agents and knowledge management. Read about the Semantic Web Activity. (News archive)

Working Draft of QA Test Guidelines
Published

Working Draft of QA Test Guidelines
Published 12/20/2002 01:54 PM
20 December 2002: The Quality Assurance (QA) Working Group has released the first published Working Draft of the QA Framework: Test Guidelines. The document defines a set of common guidelines for conformance test materials for W3C specifications. Visit the QA home page and read about the QA Activity. (News archive)

DOM Level 3 Validation Working Draft
Published

DOM Level 3 Validation Working Draft
Published 02/05/2003 06:24 PM
5 February 2003: Based on feedback received during Last Call, the DOM Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Validation Specification. The Document Object Model (DOM) allows programs and scripts to update the content and style of documents dynamically. This module of DOM3 ensures that documents remain or become valid. Comments are invited. Read about the DOM Activity. (News archive)

Web Services Architecture Working Draft
Published

Web Services Architecture Working Draft
Published 11/14/2002 03:28 PM
14 November 2002: The Web Services Architecture Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of Web Services Architecture. Software applications can communicate using Web services to present dynamic context-driven information to the user. The reference architecture identifies Web services components, defines relationships among those components, and establishes constraints upon them. Comments are welcome. Read about the Web Services Activity. (News archive)

Delivery Context Working Draft Published

Delivery Context Working Draft Published 12/13/2002 03:19 PM
13 December 2001: The Device Independence Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of Delivery Context Overview for Device Independence. Delivery context is a term used to describe user preferences and the capabilities of user Web access mechanisms. Read about the W3C Device Independence Activity. (News archive)

MathML 2.0 Second Edition Working Draft
Published

MathML 2.0 Second Edition Working Draft
Published 12/19/2002 11:29 AM
19 December 2002: The Math Working Group has released a Working Draft of the Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 2.0 (2nd Edition). MathML 2.0 is and XML application that allows mathematical notation and content to be served, received, and processed on the Web. The 2nd edition contains clarifications and errata corrections. Comments are welcome. Visit the Math home page. (News archive)

QA Framework: Specification Guidelines
Working Draft Published

QA Framework: Specification Guidelines
Working Draft Published 08/26/2002 10:33 AM
26 August 2002: The Quality Assurance (QA) Working Group has released a Working Draft of the QA Framework: Specification Guidelines. The guidelines are designed to help W3C Working Groups write clearer, more implementable, and better testable technical reports. This is a major revision and comments are welcome. Visit the QA home page. (News archive)

SOAP 1.2 Attachment Feature Working
Draft Published

SOAP 1.2 Attachment Feature Working
Draft Published 08/14/2002 11:18 AM
14 August 2002: The XML Protocol Working Group has released the first Working Draft of the SOAP 1.2 Attachment Feature. This abstract SOAP 1.2 feature can be used as the basis for defining SOAP bindings that support the transmission of messages with attachments. Comments are welcome. Read more on the Web services home page. (News archive)

XML Protocol Abstract Model Working
Draft Published

XML Protocol Abstract Model Working
Draft Published 02/20/2003 03:54 PM
20 February 2003: The XML Protocol Working Group has released a final Working Draft of the XML Protocol Abstract Model. First published in 2001, the document was an evaluation and reasoning tool used to craft SOAP Version 1.2. The Working Group believes the model has served its purpose and plans no further work on it. Visit the Web Services home page. (News archive)

Working Draft of An XHTML + MathML + SVG
Profile Published

Working Draft of An XHTML + MathML + SVG
Profile Published 08/09/2002 03:57 PM
9 August 2002: The HTML and SVG Working Groups have published the second Working Draft of An XHTML + MathML + SVG Profile. The draft enables mixing XHTML, MathML and SVG in the same document using the XML namespaces mechanism while allowing validation. Comments are welcome. Read about the HTML and the Graphics Activities. (News archive)

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
Working Draft Published

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
Working Draft Published 08/22/2002 01:31 PM
22 August 2002: The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released a Working Draft of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. Following WCAG checkpoints makes Web content accessible to people with disabilities, and to a variety of Web-enabled devices, such as phones, handhelds, kiosks, and network appliances. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative. (News archive)

CSS3 Text Last Call Working Draft
Published

CSS3 Text Last Call Working Draft
Published 02/26/2003 03:38 PM
26 February 2003: The CSS Working Group has released a second Last Call Working Draft of the CSS3 module: Text incorporating all comments from the first Last Call. The group welcomes feedback through 5 March. The document is a set of text formatting properties. Many address international contexts, particularly East Asian and bidirectional text. Visit the CSS home page. (News archive)

Modularization of XHTML in XML Schema
Working Draft published (W3C)

Modularization of XHTML in XML Schema
Working Draft published (W3C) 08/16/2002 11:06 AM

Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P)
1.1 Working Draft Published

Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P)
1.1 Working Draft Published 02/11/2004 03:05 PM
2004-02-11: The P3P Specification Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of the Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.1 (P3P 1.1). P3P simplifies and automates the process of reading Web site privacy policies, promoting trust and confidence in the Web. Version 1.1 has new extension and binding mechanisms based on suggestions from W3C workshops and the privacy community. Read about privacy and P3P. (News archive)

XML Schema: Component Designators
Working Draft Published

XML Schema: Component Designators
Working Draft Published 01/09/2003 06:04 PM
9 January 2003: The XML Schema Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of XML Schema: Component Designators. The document defines a scheme for identifying the XML Schema components specified by the XML Schema Recommendation Part 1 and Part 2. Read about the XML Activity. (News archive)

Modularization of XHTML in XML Schema
Working Draft Published

Modularization of XHTML in XML Schema
Working Draft Published 08/15/2002 11:41 AM
15 August 2002: The HTML Working Group has released a Working Draft of Modularization of XHTML in XML Schema. The draft provides a complete set of XML Schema modules for XHTML, and allows document authors to modify and extend XHTML in a conformant way. Visit the HTML home page. (News archive)

Web Ontology Language (OWL) Guide
Working Draft Published

Web Ontology Language (OWL) Guide
Working Draft Published 11/08/2002 08:17 PM
8 November 2002: The Web Ontology Working Group has published its First Working Draft of the Web Ontology Language (OWL) Guide. The OWL Guide demonstrates the use of OWL to formalize a domain by defining classes and properties of those classes; define individuals and assert properties about them, and reason about these classes and individuals to the degree permitted by the formal semantics of the OWL language. Read about the Web Ontology Working Group. (News archive)

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2
Working Draft Published

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2
Working Draft Published 11/15/2002 06:50 PM
15 November 2002: The SVG Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2. Potential areas of new work identified in SVG 1.2 include integration with other XML formats, and text wrapping, printing, streaming, painting, rendering model, and DOM enhancements. Visit the SVG home page. (News archive)
Grok Description matches for RDF/XML Syntax Working Draft Published
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Dyson DC15 'The Ball'

Dyson DC15 'The Ball' 03/14/2005 06:02 PM

UK suck whiz James Dyson has announced The Ball, a new vaccuum cleaner designed about what looks like a yellow plastic volleyball. The idea of the DC15 The Ball is to speed up cleaning by "getting rid of teh forwards/backwards motion," replacing it with a much more effecient 'forward to the left/backwards to the right' motion (or something). Since it's a Dyson, it'll be extremely expense, very effective, and look right at home taped to the underside of your X-Wing.

Dyson reinvents the vacuum cleaner [Pocket-Lint]
Product Page [TheBallUK]

Sailing on a Dyson Sphere 0.80

Sailing on a Dyson Sphere 0.80 02/12/2004 03:32 PM
A theme based on an original CG Image.

Esther Dyson Spams

Esther Dyson Spams 12/07/2003 02:59 PM
Should I be honored? "You received this message because you are an industry insider or have expressed interest in hearing from us. If you wish to be removed from our list please e-mail us at unsubscribe@edventure.com and we will not write to you again." Bullshit. Oh, and get this post scriptum: "Sign up today and take advantage of the early registration fee of $3595." Thanks, Esther - I'll pass on this one....

[etech] George Dyson on von Neumann

[etech] George Dyson on von Neumann 03/17/2005 03:00 AM
George Dyson talks about "Von Neumann's Universe." Von Neumann came from Hungary and was appointed to Princeton during the Depression. In the office above him was Kurt Goedel who was stuck in a Catch 22 trying to emigrate. The Germans finally allowed Goedel to leave Austria once they realized he wasn't a Jew, but he got classified as an enemy alien by the US because Germany had conquered Austria. In 1943 he finally got his US citizenship and was immediately drafted. Goedel was, however, paranoid. He would only eat food off his sister's plate because he was worried about being...

Dyson DC06 Robotic UltraVac

Dyson DC06 Robotic UltraVac 05/07/2004 07:51 AM
Although it's "currently on home trial," (so don't expect to purchase it anytime soon) this Dyson DC06 robotic vacuum cleaner looks to humiliate all the Roombas and Electrolux robots currently out there eating up cat hair with its 'Dual-Cyclone' action. I'm not sure how I feel about a powerful sucking...

Esther Dyson on Social Networks

Esther Dyson on Social Networks 12/02/2003 10:23 PM

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Dyson On The Paranormal or Expect A
Miracle

Dyson On The Paranormal or Expect A
Miracle 07/14/2004 10:09 AM
Expect a miracle? Freeman Dyson on Littlewood's Law of Miracles: "...the total number of events that happen to us is about thirty thousand per day, or about a million per month. ...The chance of a miracle is about one per million events. Therefore we should expect about one miracle to happen, on the average, every month." From his review of book debunking the paranormal (whose views he isn't entirely willing to accept). Via Marginal Revolution

Dyson DC11 Telescope Vacuum Shipping in
U.S.

Dyson DC11 Telescope Vacuum Shipping in
U.S. 06/07/2004 10:22 AM

I don't know when they hit U.S. retail channels, exactly, but it looks like the Dyson DC11 'Telescope' vacuum is now available in the U.S. Amazon has it for $500. The idea behind Dyson vacuums is that a bagless 'cyclone' section continually provides suction separate from the filter and collection so that collected dust and dirt doesn't clog up the airflow. Guess it is the DC11 I've been seeing on bus stops and not the DC08. Also, I have no idea if they're any good -- I just like them because they're yellow.
Read - Product Page [Dyson]
Read [Amazon]

Related
Dyson's Tiny DC12 Powerhouse Vacuum [Gizmodo]
Dyson DC06 Robotic UltraVac [Gizmodo]

ZDNet video interview with Esther Dyson

ZDNet video interview with Esther Dyson 04/22/2004 02:35 AM
CNet gets some opinions out of its new editor-at-large

Dark matter, Dyson spheres, alien life
and New York

Dark matter, Dyson spheres, alien life
and New York 03/14/2005 04:33 PM
Ahem – what follows is the sort of thing that I can’t imagine discussing in New York. So in honor...

Esther Dyson on Personal Health Records,
7 laws of identity

Esther Dyson on Personal Health Records,
7 laws of identity 06/17/2005 06:30 PM
I'm starting a number of side projects lately. One of them is a series of podcasts on Health Care IT. On the heels of the iHealthRecord announcement, I interviewed Esther Dyson last month about the whole idea of Personal Health...

British inventor Dyson unveils his
latest appliance of science in Japan
(AFP)

British inventor Dyson unveils his
latest appliance of science in Japan
(AFP) 05/25/2004 01:08 PM
AFP - British inventor James Dyson unveiled his latest hi-tech gadget, the world's smallest, most powerful -- and possibly most expensive -- vacuum cleaner, in a bid to clean up the Japanese market.

Amazon.com, Marc Andreessen, BV Capital,
Esther Dyson, Seth Goldstein, Josh
Koppelman, Howard Morgan, Tim
O’Reilly, y Bob Young estˇn
invirtiendo en del.icio.us

Amazon.com, Marc Andreessen, BV Capital,
Esther Dyson, Seth Goldstein, Josh
Koppelman, Howard Morgan, Tim
O’Reilly, y Bob Young estˇn
invirtiendo en del.icio.us 04/12/2005 12:03 AM
Union Square Ventures Leads Del.icio.us Financing

lists.del.icio.us/pipermail/discuss/2005-April/002801.html
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Microsoft Office 2003 Customers Boost
Productivity and Business Insight With
the Availability of Two New Office
Business Intelligence Accelerators

Microsoft Office 2003 Customers Boost
Productivity and Business Insight With
the Availability of Two New Office
Business Intelligence Accelerators 06/02/2004 12:06 PM
Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of two new Office 2003 Business Intelligence (BI) Accelerators, the Microsoft® Office Business Scorecards Accelerator and the Microsoft Office Excel Add-in for SQL Server (TM) Analysis Services. Designed for and built on the Microsoft Office System and Windows Server System (TM) , the Office BI Accelerators provide customers and partners with increased access to data that is critical to maximizing business performance. Information workers and industry partners can also use the accelerators to assess performance in real time and reshape strategy and redeploy resources as market conditions change, staying one step ahead of their competition. By taking advantage of existing Microsoft technology investments, the accelerators are a cost-effective way for end users and partners to increase their business insight and automate formerly manual business processes, providing greater efficiency, productivity and enhanced decision-making.

Navtel Communications Announces the
Availability of Its PacketCable CMS Test
Solution

Navtel Communications Announces the
Availability of Its PacketCable CMS Test
Solution 06/17/2005 03:15 PM
Navtel Communications Inc. a leading developer of test equipment for the laboratories of network equipment manufacturers & operators is pleased to announce the availability of its high-performance and highly scaleable PacketCable™ Call Management Server [CMS] Test Solution supporting NCS, Dynamic Quality of Service [DQoS] and integrated IP Security. [PRWEB Jun 16, 2005]

Test-TAP-Model-0.02

Test-TAP-Model-0.02 04/15/2005 08:19 PM

Eclipse Test & Performance Tools
Platform Project Announces Availability
of Release 3.2

Eclipse Test & Performance Tools
Platform Project Announces Availability
of Release 3.2 12/24/2004 12:19 PM
TPTP release 3.2 will be available on the Eclipse Foundation website (www.eclipse.org) [PRWEB Dec 23, 2004]

Prostitutes See Sharp Drop in Business
(Reuters)

Prostitutes See Sharp Drop in Business
(Reuters) 05/11/2004 10:50 AM
Reuters - EU entry has not brought everyone in the Czech Republic the promised economic advantages.

iHealthRecord free online service
launched

iHealthRecord free online service
launched 06/05/2005 11:21 PM
It's interesting that at today's Digital Identity World 2005 conference, I've heard no mention so far of iHealthRecord, a free online service providing "secure and confidential interactive personal health records," launched yesterday. There's an archived video Webcast of the launch....

Dyson's Tiny DC12 Powerhouse Vacuum

Dyson's Tiny DC12 Powerhouse Vacuum 05/26/2004 10:40 AM
Dyson revealed a new vacuum cleaner yesterday, the DC12, which is making a good claim to be the world's smallest vacuum cleaner. With dimensions that would keep it inside an 8 by 10 by 12-inch cube, the tiny vacuum also...

RSS Ads - The Business Model for RSS

RSS Ads - The Business Model for RSS 01/26/2004 02:19 AM
RSS Ads - The Business Model for RSS .. RSSAds .. Quote

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Plaxo Does Have A Business Model... But
Not Really

Plaxo Does Have A Business Model... But
Not Really 05/24/2004 03:05 AM
I'll admit that I have not been kind to Plaxo in the past. Ever since the service was first announced, it sounded like a bubble era pointless dot com. There was a lot of hype about the young founder (previously founded Napster!) and the "service" itself didn't seem like much of a product. At most, it was a feature of a larger product, and that larger product might just turn out to be something like Microsoft Outlook. If the system was remotely useful, you would think that Microsoft would just build it in to Outlook. However, it didn't even seem that useful. If anything, I expected it to be annoying - and has it ever been annoying. I now block all Plaxo requests, but for a while, the amount of Plaxo spam was ridiculous. Then, of course, there's the privacy question. While Plaxo now goes to great lengths to swear up and down that they keep your info private, they don't seem to understand the real privacy complaint: when your friends give your address to some 3rd party service, are they violating your privacy? It's a question that's not entirely clear. In the meantime, this was all made worse by the fact that Plaxo still didn't have anything remotely resembling a business model (shades of the bubble era again...). Well, now they claim they've solved that issue, and have announced that their business model is a $20/year paid version for which you'll get such great features as... well, they actually don't seem to know yet. You will get better customer support though. It always worries me when companies decide that better customer support is a premium "feature," because they've just set up the incentives to mean that they give the absolute worst customer support to anyone not in that tier. This doesn't seem particularly compelling. They're basically saying their new business model is that they'll annoy me less if I pay? No thanks...

Overstock's Business Model

Overstock's Business Model 02/17/2004 01:15 PM
How does the company make money selling books and CDs at cost?

Plaxo's business model

Plaxo's business model 05/24/2004 01:46 AM

Start-up Plaxo sketches out business plan [CNET News.com - The Net]

OK - so now we know.

Whenever I've received an invitation to join Plaxo or to update my profile info, I've used as an excuse - the nebulous answers that Plaxo has given in the past as to their business model.

Well I guess I'll have to find a different excuse now.

I actually like the business model - charge for more advanced features - but the only feature they mentioned in this article was "better customer support".  That actually sounds like a charge for support" business model.  HHmmm maybe they should talk to Dave Sifry about that.

But then again - they only want $20 a year.  Geesh.  It costs more to look at naked pictures.  I guess they think lots of people will sign-up - but if it's like any other service, they'll only convert 5%.

So what's 5% of 2M?  100k users.  Times $20 a year.  That $2M a year.

Geesh hasn't Plaxo raised like over $20M now - or something like that?

What's wrong with the math here?

Into the valley of the Business Model -
yee shall go

Into the valley of the Business Model -
yee shall go 04/14/2005 03:33 PM

MeetUp is now charging for organizing MeetUps.

$19 a month. I wonder how they came up with that number?

Jason Lefkowitz reports his feelings on this.

One good thing they did - they put their faces next to what they describe as "the bad news". Me - I don't consider it bad news.

There's a time for every social experiment to grow up, smell the mustard and get real. MeetUp has - congreats!

The Blogware business model

The Blogware business model 07/07/2004 02:41 AM

I've been trying to get to know Roland Tanglao and Boris Mann and their company Streamline. Here's an interesting post I found on Roland's blog about Blogware's business model..

Here's Roland......

A must read for prospective Blogware resellers and for bloggers and people who don't understand why Blogware is not being heavily promoted by Tucows. Summary: it's all about the resellers. Resellers made Tucows #2 in domain registration and similarly resellers will make Blogware a big player in the hosted blog space.



From An Open Letter to Blog Sceptic:

QUOTE

5/3/2/1. Ditch the resellers/launch a hosted version/offer to specific verticals/promote it...

Never gonna happen.

Here's why: Internet services providers represent the most powerful distribution channel on the internet. No single company can compete with the marketing muscle of 30,000 ISPs** who sit right in front of end-users and assist them in making critical technology choices and guide them as they dive into the internet - usually for the first time. No other channel can put you in front of individuals and the Fortune 500 simultaneously and no channel can better address the fickle needs of their local markets in a more appropriate fashion.

To get a better sense of this, take a look at our track record with domain names. In 1997, we were (according to the most liberal definitions) #85 in the domain name registration market. Today we are solidly #2 and we've been there for a couple of years. How did we get here? We dealt exclusively with internet services providers to the exclusion of all other market opportunities and we nailed their service requirements. By choosing and sticking to our distribution model very early in the game (some would argue that it chose us) we were able to focus on very specific attributes of our products and processes and build some truly excellent structures around everything. In other words, because we weren't trying to be all things to all customers, we were able to do some very amazing things with some very specific customer segments. And they responded in spades.

Our resellers kick serious a*s in the market place. This because the Tucows way of doing things gives them  the luxury of being able to focus on very specific and important things. Think of every other blogging company out there. They each have to a) be technical experts, b) be sales experts and c) be marketing experts just to one unit to a customer. Now take a look at the symbiotic nature of the relationship between Tucows and its direct customers. Our resellers have to be sales & marketing experts and develop strong customer service skills and Tucows has to focus on maintaining world-class technical services. Who would you bet on, the jack-of-all-trades or the team of specialists?

The downside to this approach is that it lacks the glitz and glam that retail oriented services employ. You will never see a full out PR blitz from Tucows and Blogware will never be a household name.  All wasted money. Remember, we're not the marketing brains in this relationship. We're the technical muscle.

Does that mean that our resellers are idly sitting by doing nothing? Nope. Right now, they are working on developing the right messages to direct at very specific markets - some are doing the institutional angle, some are going after telecommunications firms, others are targetting specific home-user verticals and others still looking to make quick wins at the expense of those with existing market share... And what I've seen so far looks great. Think of this as true "end-to-end marketing" Marketing at the edges. Clue-train compatible distribution. Teamwork. Focus. Whatever you call it, it works.

UNQUOTE

"Business Model" Explained

"Business Model" Explained 06/24/2004 08:07 AM
Two companies might do the same thing, but with very different business models.

Plaxo Business Model

Plaxo Business Model 05/24/2004 12:50 PM
Plaxo is out trying to explain they have a business model and are addressing privacy concerns. A premium service at $20/month that includes support and, well, what else they are not saying or don't know yet. Techdirt: They're basically saying...

A Business Model For WiFi Aggregation

A Business Model For WiFi Aggregation 01/09/2004 09:50 PM
Robert X. Cringely's latest column discusses his idea for a killer WiFi aggregator business model that makes some sense - but could be very difficult from some significant reasons. He correctly points out the problems with current WiFi aggregator business models: they have way too little coverage and way too many players have their hands in the pie. For each dollar spent at a hotspot, a portion needs to go to the hotspot owner, the owner of the network and the aggregator (and potentially others) - and there just isn't that much money being spent at hotspots in the first place. His solution is that we need more hotspots, and the way to get more hotspots is to give away the equipment free. Basically, have a company that will give you free WiFi equipment in exchange for adding your hotspot to their network and giving you free access to the entire network. This way, he believes, an aggregator would quickly get to one million hotspots and pretty much guarantee the necessary level of coverage. The money, then, would come from others who pay the subscription fee to get on the network - and since the coverage is so great, and the aggregator no longer needs to share that revenue with the hotspots, people will be willing to pay up. Maybe. I'm certainly a fan of leveraging "free" in a promotion to build a business model, but not when that "free" is very costly. In order to get this going, the company would need to give away those million access points (and, probably, handle tech support for them) before they start making money. While you can bet they'd get a volume discount (and APs are getting cheaper every day), it's still a pretty big capital chunk to eat. Then, there are two other big problems I see. First, which he brushes off, most internet providers say sharing your connection is a violation of terms of service. Sure, there's the Speakea sy exception, but it's still not too common, and I'm not so convinced (as Cringely is) that they'll just rollover when they find out what's happening. The second problem is much more fundamental. I now have two choices if I want to use this fairly vast network of access points: (1) pay a monthly fee or (2) offer to host my own hotspot - where I get free equipment and free service. Guess what I'm going to do? Is there any reason not to get their free equipment just to get free access everywhere else? Who are the suckers who are actually going to pay for this service instead of just signing up to be a provider?

an alternate business model for gmail

an alternate business model for gmail 04/14/2004 05:12 PM
next, jason's going to start selling blogger accounts

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