I wish that Klout allowed for divergent systems
I like Klout; it is an interesting system that can be easily tweaked to work with the major social systems out there. Klout support most of the major systems such as Facebook, Blogger, Flickr, and others to try to put together a bird’s eye view of how your influence and supporters/followers tend to influence others [...]
The Enterprise Social Goodness
Ever since the word “social” became a famous consumer token that is overused and overhyped every minute of every day, the business world started wondering about how to build an enterprise social network that had all the right and relevant component…
What Every Entrepreneur Could Learn from Justin Bieber
This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. I know what you’re thinking – link bait title, right? Wrong. I will stand 100% behind my assertions in this post. Justin Bieber is unbelievably entrepreneurial and most of you will never know it because he serves a target demo that doesn’t include you. I promise you can [...]
Want to know why charging $12 / year converts higher than $9.99?
As many of you know I run a weekly webcast called This Week in VC that’s getting between 25-35,000 weekly views across ThisWeekIn.com, YouTube & mostly iTunes. Yesterday’s show floored me. I consider Gregg Spiridellis a good friend. We’ve hung out periodically over the past few years and I have enjoyed debating many startup topics. [...]
Why Hulu is the OPEC of Online Video
This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. The formation of Hulu was defensive – designed to stop another YouTube or Napster from emerging and causing disruption to the TV industry. The idea was that if you could put up a consumer site that was seen as the best place to consume content then people wouldn’t go [...]
When You Can Innovate With browser, Why Do You Need Native Apps?
Browser based apps or native apps? I am going to harp on the same topic I touched yesterday again but from the desktop angle. I apologize if it appears to be repetitive but I want to drive home this point again. To begin with, let me give some background on the debate and go on [...]
YouTube and Community Guidelines could mean being locked out of your account
Two years ago I did a number of videos about using Google Hacking and how simple it was to use Google as an intelligence vehicle for sites and people who did not properly secure their infrastructure. Over the last month two of those videos were flagged by the community as inappropriate with the end result [...]
The Strangest Enterprise Software Ad I’ve Ever Seen
I’ve seen some strange ads before, but this one by Enterprise SaaS provider SuccesFactors is beyond imagination – not the ad itself, but where it is placed: Yes, it is on Youtube, and the video shows a seahorse giving birth. Seahorses are rather unusual species, the male gets pregnant and gives birth to 100-200 babies [...]
Bring On The Inquisition! Judge Should Not Let Google Evil-doers Get Away!
<rant> Italian Judge Oscar Magi (photo @ TechCrunch , but I am not showing it for fear he might slap me with a privacy-invasion charge) has no idea what he’s dealing with. He’s just allowed evil witches get away with only 6 months suspended jail sentence. (C’mon, why would their employer insist on covering up [...]
Summer Fun – Rant Redux #1
It seems only fair that while I’m off enjoying a (Southern Hemisphere) summer road trip, I should continue to provide my readers with some thoughts. I figured seeing I’ll be a million miles from anywhere, and unable to access decent connectivity, that a series of my ranty-est posts, with some new rants thrown in for [...]
Work. Online. (Zoho Employees On the Loose)
Disclaimer:Zoho is CloudAve’s Sponsor. But I can’t help having fun with this vid, originally published @ FakeOffice. Besides, it’s the weekend.
Smugmug Crashes
On a note left on the Smugmug Blog, a critical piece of infrastructure failed on Smugmug this morning leaving everything that was connected to the system pretty much so down. At time of writing logins are not working and the site is in read only. A critical part of our infrastructure failed this morning and [...]
Do Not Copy That Floppy – Version Two Surfaces
One of the hall mark anti-piracy ads from the 1980’s was “Don’t Copy that Floppy” sung by MC Double Def DP (data protection). While copying programs, movies and music has exponentially grown from its humble floppy disk beginnings the SIIA (Software & Information Industry Alliance) has also stated a word of mouth campaign, reintroducing DP [...]
Home – World Premiere, on World Environment Day
I’m receiving congratulatory notes – in the age of Facebook and Plaxo there is no hiding. Oh, well, I’m happy to have reached 21, at least I can get a drink now. But June 5th is a memorable day for other reasons. This year it is the 20th anniversary of the of Tiananmen Square crackdown [...]
A Curmudgeon with a Cause
Image via Wikipedia James Dean famously starred in the 1955 move “A Rebel with a Cause”. I’m no rebel but I do pride myself on being something of a curmudgeon from time to time, always keen to (hopefully) talk some sense amongst the evangelism that seems to typify our industry. Visiting the recent Web 2.0 [...]
