Web Trends

Mobile Web is another Next Big Thing on slow boil. It's already big in parts of Asia and Europe, and it received a kick in the US market this year with the release of Apple's iPhone. This is just the beginning. In 10 years time there will be many more location-aware services available via mobile devices; such as getting personalized shopping offers as you walk through your local mall, or getting map directions while driving your car, or hooking up with your friends on a Friday night. Look for the big Internet companies like Yahoo and Google to become key mobile portals, alongside the mobile operators.Companies like Nokia, Sony-Ericsson, Palm, Blackberry and Microsoft have been active in the Mobile Web for years now, but one of the main issues with Mobile Web has always been usability. The iPhone has a revolutionary UI that makes it easier for users to browse the Web, using zooming, pinching and other methods. Also, as Alex Iskold noted, the iPhone is a strategy that may expand Apple's sphere of influence, from web browsing to social networking and even possibly search.So even despite the iPhone hype, in the US at least (and probably other countries when it arrives) the iPhone will probably be seen in 10 years time as the breakthrough Mobile Web device.

Property super-store

Interested in property?? Got property to sell? looking to buy? Or are you an estate agent looking for a new advertising medium?

Over the last couple of months we have been developing a brilliant piece of software that allows an estate agent to purchase (although the service is free for the first 12 months!) and access a part of this software. Once you have purchased the software, as an agent you will be able to log in to the website back end and manage and advertise your properties to the WWW via the attractive front end website. You will be able to interact with potential buyers, both sending and receiving information and requests. You can list as many properties as you have to offer, in full detail with high res images of the property. Our aim is to develop this web site so that it is shown within the top five of all search engine searches - displaying your properties to the mass markets.

As a customer, you will be able to view, in your own time, detailed and descriptive lists of suitable houses. You can find the property that is perfect for you by using our easy to follow search mechanism. You can find out information on mortgaes, surveying, HIPs and request viewings and appointments and more all through the one website!

We will be launching this website this comming April. If you are an agent and would like to find out more before the Launch please contact us on 0845 257 0997.

To see a pre launch preview of the site, please visit:

http://www.residentialpropertyfinder.co.uk/

It may not have been noticed in the whirlwind of online transactions on Web sites like eBay or Amazon , but e-commerce turned 25 on Tuesday.

On March 4, 1983, the husband-wife team of Alex Randall and Cameron Hall quietly launched a business revolution that was then the stuff of dreams, when their year-old company, Boston Computer Exchange, sold a computer "on line" to a buyer in South America.
Randall and Hall had started their company as a clearinghouse for buying and selling computers at a time when PCs like the Apple 2, Tandy, IBM PC and Sinclair were first becoming available.

"Almost nobody outside of universities had computers,". "But we could see it coming. It's like Bill Gates' story of having a computer in every home: We recognized that eventually you'd be able to trade all kinds of things this way."

The Long View It required a long-range vision, Randall said.
"In 1983, the only people who had computers were bleeding-edge aficionados," he recalled. "The only thing we could trade was computer equipment. There was no market for fresh fruit delivered to your door. The only people out there were computer users and people looking to buy computers."

Randall said he and Hall developed a marketplace where computer users could upgrade from old units.

The two started at a meeting of the Boston Computer Society with trading cards and conducted hundreds of transactions over the phone. They began to dominate trading in used computers as a paper and pencil company, Randall said.

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