The Fraunhofer FOKUS guys have been working this summer. Now they have a services platform to run widgets in mobile devices. You can find more information on its website[1]. You can also can take a look of the press release Fraunhofer FOKUS Web 2.0 goes mobile press release

[1] Fraunhofer FOKUS Press room: Web 2.0 goes mobile.

Updated: electric shutdown will be moved to 09/20/2008, as well as the system halt.

From early morning of Saturday  09/20/2008 to dawn of Monday 09/22/2008, the systems which provides the community services will be halted due to electric installation maintenance operations. This shutdown affects to the whole community services, including web sites, forge, repositories, mailing lists, and so on.

Please, accept our apologies for the problems this shutdown may cause to you.

Yours sincerely,

System Administration Group
Morfeo Community

For any kind of incident you may have, please contact us at support_at_morfeo-project.org. A message with the confirmation will be sent once the staff receives the notification and optionally an estimated date for its resolution. Once the incident is solved a new mail will be sent with its notification.

Last number of Technology Review presents several articles about Web 2.0 and its future. In this context, Web 2.0 means the technology to built social network. In these essays we can read some critics about how, as everybody knows, over and over we swell the bubble until it bursts.

The most successful Web 2.0 companies, as Facebook or MySpace, not only have few revenues, but in many cases they are losing a lot of money. In other way, it is surprising that many of web 2.0 start-up do not reveal revenue information so it might think that “staying mum about revenue was always a sign that there wasn’t much to talk about”[1].

These portals have a lot of user but its CPM (cost per mille or price per thousand times an ad is served) are ridiculous compared to lesser generic websites and this is the key to understands why the business is taking off yet. They can not filter users properly, so the advertising price is low. But how can they filter user without force its privacy? This is the one million questions and  the example of Beacon program (a Facebook mini application) shows that it is not easy to anwser.

Many of this problems were discussed in the EconSM[2] Conference and it seems that the solution could be in the improvement of the target of users of social networks. Companies such as 33Across or Xtract areworking on it with a relative success….

It is clear that we need technological improvements to help us to better target our social network users and this bring us new business opportunities.

[1] Social Netwoking is not a Business. Brian Urstadt. Technology Review July/August 2008

[2] http://www.econsm.com/

[3] http://33across.com/

[4] http://www.xtract.com/

Dear Morfeo member,
We are sorry to inform you that, due to pending maintenance tasks, next Thursday, July 24th we shall proceed to a system halt which will take all this day. The systems will be available again on Friday, July 25th.
We apologize for the inconvenience and we thank you for your patience. If you have any question or comment, please contact us at morfeo-admin@lists.morfeo-project.org.

Yours sincerely,
System Administration Group

Morfeo Community