And I get a takedown Notice from Aiplex in India
About a year ago (to be exact, September 20th 2010) members of 4chan started an attack against low yield targets against the MPAA, RIAA and Aiplex. That article was picked up by Cloud Avenue and was an article that flew under the wire, few if any paid attention, and like all events this one was [...]
Disrupt Yourself Before Others Disrupt You: DVD To Streaming Transition Is Same As On-Premise To Cloud
Recently, Netflix separated their streaming and DVD subscription plans. As per Netflix’s forecast, they will lose about 1 million subscribers by the end of this quarter. The customers did not like what Netflix did. A few days back, Netflix’s CEO, Reed Hastings, wrote a blog post explaining why Netflix separated their plans. He also announced [...]
The Google Plus 1 Tab looks a lot like Stumble Upon
Should Stumble Upon worry about Google Plus? One of the things I really do like about Google Plus is that it has the plus one list so I can keep track of what I am plussing. It does not mean I had to make this public, if anything you have to consciously click a button [...]
Bank Simple–Not Traditional Banking But Definitely Not Banking 2.0
I’ve written in the past about Banking 2.0 – a concept that sees the flexibility and openness of web 2.0 bought that most staid of industries, banking. As I see it, like the web we now know, banking 2.0 would involve banks creating APIs that would allow (and yes, after correct authentication of course, third [...]
Tips to Help you Think About Sales at Your Startup
Sales. It’s the lifeblood of any organization and yet most startups don’t have any sales DNA on their teams. It’s important enough that I dedicate a tab on my blog to startup sales & marketing This week I had the chance to have an hour-long discussion with Vince Thompson (ran West Coast sales for AOL for 7 [...]
Emergent Collaboration Vendor Review: Igloo Software
Every Friday I’m going to be reviewing a vendor in the emergent collaboration space and will provide an overview on that vendor which includes everything from leadership and vision to technology and market focus. If you are vendor that would like to participate, please contact me (email is in the sidebar as is twitter link). The [...]
Poll: Is Google Apps Enterprise Ready?
Google has been pushing Google Apps as a cloud based alternative to Microsoft. Even though they are steadily improving Google Apps to meet the needs of the enterprise customers, there is a widespread feeling that it is not enterprise ready. In the last month alone, I have spoken to almost ten IT managers (including some [...]
Porn sites start using Facebook Connect
With a sense of humor because when Mashable’s Pete Cashmore wrote that Facebook users should be beware that the new timeline feature could embarrass a user, I just had to see what the porn industry was doing. Porn has been trying to get involved in social media, but for a multi-billion dollar industry we tend [...]
The Secret to Virgin America’s Social Business Success (infographic comparison)
Want to know what it might feel like if an airline actually treated its customers like friends? Not a superficial, phony performance marked by fake smiles and fake actors (think the aviation version of the Truman Show). But an airline that runs its business by listening, supporting and doing what’s best for its customers. Instead, [...]
Dropping Costs While Still Providing Support–A SmartPayroll Case Study
Over the past couple of years I’ve spent a reasonable amount of time with Asantha Wijeyratne, CEO of SmartPayroll, a New Zealand Payroll provider. I’ve been interested to talk to him, partly because he’s a lovely guy with an interesting business ethic, but also because his business is growing rapidly,
Europe VS Facebook the data deluge edition
Trolling Facebook is in high fashion today as Reddit users swamp Facebook with requests for individual user data. It would be awesome to know what Facebook knows about you, and to get an idea of just how popular this idea is, check Slashdot this morning. What is interesting though is out at Europe-V-Facebook.org website they [...]
JRuby for EngineYard Goes GA
In another step towards PaaS provider Engine Yard becoming a fully featured multi language platform player, they are today announcing that JRuby on Engine Yard is entering general availability. Timed to coincide with next week’s JavaOne conferent, JRuby is a Java implementation of the Ruby language that Engine Yard initially supported. Using JRuby, Java developers [...]
pentOS: Why It Is Interesting?
Piston Computing (previous CloudAve coverage), the OpenStack ecosystem player founded by former NASA architect, yesterday announced the release of enterprise grade OpenStack distribution called pentOS (for Piston Enterprise OS). It is an enterprise grade cloud operating system meeting the security and governance needs of enterprises wanting to use OpenStack for their infrastructure services. With this [...]
Why Email May Be Draining Your Company’s Productivity
Email. Ah, email. That great productivity drain that we somehow all buy into. I’ve taken to saying, “Email is our personal to-do list that anybody adds to – whether they know us or not.” I was lamenting it tonight when I saw the most brilliant response Tweet by Andrew Hyde “inbox = tetris getting zero [...]
The Twenty Success Factors of Collaboration
I’ve been doing a lot of research for the book I’m working on for McGraw Hill. A part of that research isn’t just understanding emergent collaboration as it exists today in the era of all these new tools but also understanding collaboration at its core. So, I’ve been researching and reading a lot about collaboration [...]
