Foursquare Check-in Etiquette
Anyone remember the early complaints about Twitter? That people were posting updates about what they’re eating for lunch? Robert Scoble noted this phenomenon in a blog post from last September about Twitter’s rise: It tells me that Twitter isn’t lame anymore. Remember those days when Twitter was for telling all your friends you were having [...]
Facebook Big Mac Attack – Not For Me, Thanks. Top 10 Reasons to …
Oh, just what the Doctor has ordered: more junk food coming your way, left and right, from the social network that’s taking over the Internet: Facebook. McDonald’s will be the first advertiser taking advantage of Facebook’s soon-t0-be-releasing location feature. The first reaction from most is this will kill leading location-based services: Hey Foursquare, Time To [...]
Google Maps Experiment with Hotel Prices – Just Remember to Check In
How many times were you looking for the right hotel at the right price, close enough to your conference, customer or just a particular location? Finding the right one typically includes juggling multiple sites – hotel search, price comparisons, many with teaser prices that turn out to be unavailable, maps, reservation systems…etc. Not for long, [...]
The Two-Year Lag from Web 2.0 to Enterprise 2.0
The Enterprise 2.0 sector draws heavy inspiration from innovations in the Web 2.0 world. Indeed, the name itself, Enterprise “2.0” reflects this influence. From a product management perspective, Web 2.0, and its derivations social networking and social media are great proving grounds for features before coding them into your application. A fruitful area to review [...]
What Enterprise 2.0 vendors can learn from FourSquare
It struck me in a lengthy discussion with an old CIO friend of mine this weekend at Big Bear Ski Resort. As the great Mark Twain once said, “All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.” Brandon Matthias wasn’t aware of FourSquare or Gowalla or even Google Buzz. Not surprising given [...]
Google Buzz is Going after FourSquare and Gowalla! (Pics)
Further evidence that Buzz is going into the geo-targeting business. For the first time, I was asked to make a recommendation about a location I was visiting. I’d Buzz’d from here in the past but this was the first time I’d been asked directly. Next step towards killing FourSquare and Gowalla are to add social [...]
The Google Buzz Guide for the Enterprise (with Buzz Matrix)
There’s been a lot of noise over Google Buzz this past week. I haven’t seen an article about Buzz’s impact on the Enterprise so allow me to chime in. First, the impact of Buzz has been tremendous. Compare Google Wave search results with that of Buzz: Buzz (B) and Wave (A) As you can see [...]
PleaseRobMe Is the Logical Extension of Our Worst Fears about Location-Based Services
The rise of location-based social media holds a lot of promise and benefit for participants. But a legitimate concern about them is that they make it too easy to track where you are. For some people, that’s more information than they want out there. Well, three guys – Barry Borsboom, Frank Groeneveld, Boy van Amstel [...]
Google Buzz Is New Black – Solving A Problem That Google Wave Could Not
Today Google announced Google Buzz. Watch the video: The chart below shows the spectacular adoption failure of Google Wave as a standalone product. This was predicted by a lot of people including myself. As Anil Dash puts it Google Wave does not help solve a “weekend-sized problem”. Besides the obvious complex technical challenges there are three distinct [...]
