Shuai’s 2008 Web Snapshots: Change, Fun and Getting Mobile

It’s year end and I want to pull some interesting web data points together. It’s how I look at the world from the online space in 2008, given that I spend so much time online reading, researching, writing and learning, given that my job is web focused, given that I enjoy shopping and socializing online, and given that I believe that there are still a lot of fun and creative things that we can do on the web!

• Many hopes are on Omaba: here are the Top 10 Ways Obama Can Change American Culture and the Change.gov has a lot of the social applications and social thinking in it

• Hot Products - Toys and Electronics Categories: Hitwise has this analysis in Dec for these two holiday categories:

• Another look at holiday shopping: Holiday comparison - Brick & mortar vs. online-only retailers from Hitwise

• The First iGoogle Banking Gadget Released By Fidelity in Dec: you can see some screenshots here or try it out yourself

• Top 10 Consumer Web Apps of 2008: by ReadWriteWeb

• Burger King launches a perfume that smells like meat, named Flamed by BK: isn’t this funny! more detail on TechCrunch

• Get a taxi from your iPhone at the push of a button: TaxMagic is featured on TechCrunch

• Mint, the popular financial website, is getting more features out of the door: you can now watch every penny in your account on the go with it’s iPhone application. featured on TechCrunch

• Omiture is extending its SiteCatalyst measurement tool to native iPhone applications. Some other analytics suites also offer this service on iPhone

• USA Today redesigned its iPhone news portal: and it is a lot prettier (screenshots on VentureBeat)

You see the trends:

• changes are everywhere, big changes and small changes
• people need to have fun no matter what
• it’s all going to be the mobile

Have a fun and changing holiday season!

Tags: 2008, Add new tag, change, getting mobile, mobile, web in general