Ken Yarmosh is a web strategy consultant who helps organizations, businesses, VCs, and technology developers maximize their Internet and web investments.
Dave Pell was nice enough to give me a heads up on Rollyo’s new simplified means to create customized Firefox Search Engines.
After adding sources, the user clicks “Create Search Engine” and then is quickly prompted to add the Searchroll to Firefox. While this sort of feature was available before, this tweak was a smart move [...]
Unfortunate for me, one of my favorite Web 2.0 applications - SearchFox RSS - is going away. I received an email from Esteban Kozak, which read:
Thanks for all your help in making SearchFox what it is. We have enjoyed providing this service, and hope that you have enjoyed using it. Please export all of your [...]
A quote often attributed to Robert Frost reads, “If there is no discovery for the writer, there is none for the reader.” Indeed, blogging is tremendously rewarding on a number of levels. But blogging is largely a labor of love. Only a relatively small subset of bloggers generate any substantial revenue from their advertisements. Even [...]
The Internet is actually a network of networks (think of the streets of your community being part of a larger whole of roads and highways across the U.S.). Its architects never intended it to be what it has evolved into today. The origins of the Internet stem from a defense project, which became a popular [...]
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Fiber to the Home - A Realistic Perspective
Fiber to the home (FTTH), whether considered the first or �last mile�, is a long way from having true success. Current U.S. broadband penetration rate (via cable modems or DSL) is about 18%. By 2005, it is estimated that the U.S. will rank eighth worldwide in regards to [...]
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“Naked DSL” - Moving Towards a Digitized Society
Broadband Internet (also referred to as �high speed� Internet) is very expensive in the U.S. and it shows. The U.S. does not even rank in the top ten, when it comes to broadband penetration rates of the world�s top economies (�broadband penetration rate� is fancy jargon for examining [...]
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2006 is going to be a year where the creators of web technology have the opportunity to make their services better in terms of integration, usability, and usefulness.
- Ken Yarmosh, Looking towards 2006
Integration - Web 2.0 services must be seamless
Yahoo! has the opportunity to be the poster child of an integrated Web 2.0 world in [...]
TECHNOSIGHT is written by Ken Yarmosh, Internet overlord and overall fun guy.
