Lightweight Models and Cost-effective Scalability

The Internet has become the fastest growing medium and the most famous distribution system. According to NUV (2004), there were 605.6 million Internet users worldwide in the September 2002, having increased from 30.6 million users in 1995 (Flew, 2005). In 2010, there are 205,368,103 sites on the Internet and 940 millions Social Network users worldwide (Ries, 2010). Today, [...]

Leveraging the Long Tail

The Long Tail is one of the most important business economic models of the 21st century, especially for online retail business. It first appeared in Wired’s article “The Long Tail”  in October 2004 and expanded into The New York Times bestseller book in July 2009 on the subject entitled, The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is [...]

Perpetual Beta

Today, with the technology development, the Web has changed the economics of software development and the Internet has also changed the way of the software developers on how they look at the traditional software development and delivery process.  In 2005, the term “Web 2.0″ was proposed by respected developers’ handbook publisher Tim O’Reilly and “perpetual beta” is one of the [...]

Software above the Level of a single device

In the earier stage of the Web 1.0  development (1990), the webpage was the only interaction between browsers and servers and the web content information was downloaded from the server to the local desktop Personal Computer (PC). Today, Web 2.0 has arrived and it changes the way of traditional Web communication from uni-directional to bi-directional and also [...]