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Skype - the mysterious money bubble

Skype – the mysterious money bubble

By Martijn Linssen on May 10, 2011

This morning I wrote this post already in one tweet: 2003: Skype founded. 2005: bought by eBay $2.5B (60m users). 2009: sold by eBay $2.8B (450m users). 2011: bought by MSFT $8B (700m users) That was after a very quick 5 minute analysis of a few tweets, posts and web sites. Now I’ve finally found […]

Posted in Application Software, Business, Featured Posts | Tagged change, cloud computing, Ebay, Globalisation, microsoft, skype | 1 Response

Implementing Social: don't use the C-word

Implementing Social: don’t use the C-word

By Martijn Linssen on April 13, 2011

The C-word is being used quite frequently these days. I have had quite a few dialogues and discussions about it, and it almost looks like the C-word is the new black – or white, in this case. To me, it shows that Social is hitting mainstream and getting implemented here and there. Maybe the evangelists […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged 1.0, 2.0, adopt, application development, business rules, change, social media, twitter

The Schmarketing MQ

The Schmarketing MQ

By Martijn Linssen on April 7, 2011

With the above picture hardly legible on purpose, let me tell you a small story. Three months ago I was contacted by Derek Singleton with a question about a poll on his company site. I liked the company, liked the site, liked the poll, so wrote a small post about it This week, Hunter Richards […]

Posted in Marketing | Tagged 1.0, 2.0, B2C, change, information, Klout, magic quadrant, maturity, social media, twitter

From product to service: stealing first base?

From product to service: stealing first base?

By Martijn Linssen on March 29, 2011

The other day I read a post about how someone in a poor country is making a living by taking his washing machine across town (rather: slum) and selling it “by the wash”, thus turning a product into a service. The rationale in this specific case is cheap washing machines from abroad pushing existing ones […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 1.0, adopt, change, Entrepreneur, Globalisation, professional services, proserv, Supply Chain, trust | 2 Responses

A new kind of Capgemini Consulting, errrrr attrition

A new kind of Capgemini Consulting, errrrr attrition

By Martijn Linssen on March 8, 2011

I was attended on Twitter to this thoughtless, clumsy, mindless piece by Peter Sayer on PCWorld: Capgemini Consulting, a specialist in strategy and transformation, is about to transform its own strategy for the second time in two years. To cope with the change, the company plans to recruit up to 1,000 staff this year, predominantly […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged 1.0, attrition, business exceptions, Capgemini, change, consulting, E2E, Ernst & Young, financials, information, risk management, social media, stats, trust

Social Business Revolution

Social Business Revolution

By Martijn Linssen on February 28, 2011

  Social Business (R)evolution by Martijn Linssen (sample) The current world is abuzz about Social. Social networks, social media, Social Business: all things social. People, Twitterati and even a small number of companies embrace the diverse ideas and notions of Social, trying to sell and implement them That movement is a natural counter reaction to […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 24/7/365, adapt, adopt, b2b, B2C, business exceptions, business rules, change, Globalisation, growth, information, knowledge, social business design, social media, standardisation, trust, twitter

Twitter delegates the monetisation strain to its developers

Twitter delegates the monetisation strain to its developers

By Martijn Linssen on February 11, 2011

On the Twitter Development Google Group, Twitter announced today that they’ll stop whitelisting. Whitelisting basically lifts an application developer’s limitation of 150 Twitter requests per hour, that mere mortals suffer from Beginning today, Twitter will no longer grant whitelisting requests. We will continue to allow whitelisting privileges for previously approved applications; however any unanswered requests […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Strategy | Tagged adapt, application development, b2b, change, financials, gnip, growth, Klout, maturity, social media, standardisation, Supply Chain, twitter, Whitelist

The simple secret to knowledge curation

The simple secret to knowledge curation

By Martijn Linssen on February 8, 2011

Of all the Social Tools out there, most if not all of it is free text to the power of three. Notwithstanding the huge progress made – getting conversations in writing and saving them for eternity – it gets increasingly harder to make heads or tails of them. Why favour conversation or thread A over […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged application development, business rules, change, Data quality, information, knowledge, maturity, messaging, social media, stats

Social Enterprise Magic Quadrant

Social Enterprise Magic Quadrant

By Martijn Linssen on February 4, 2011

Debate and savviness seems to be flying across the Twitter verse these days, Stowe Boyd wrote a post about that One quote there: And Dennis has been making his displeasure about the use of the term ‘social business’ known, but not by arguing about the principles involved. Instead, Howlett has adopted a ‘savviness’ cant: he […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 1.0, 2.0, adapt, adopt, change, cloud computing, e2.0, gartner, knowledge, magic quadrant, social business design, social media, stowe boyd, trust, twitter

Advertising - paying for our free(mium) world for how long?

Advertising – paying for our free(mium) world for how long?

By Martijn Linssen on January 28, 2011

Ads – no wiki definition needed this time I think. I recommended TweetCaster to Thijs Muis the other day, for Android, and the first thing he said after installing it was: @MartijnLinssen has ads! Not my app so far, but @tweetdeck isn’t the best either. I don’t see ads anymore. Well maybe I see them, […]

Posted in Marketing | Tagged 1.0, 2.0, ads, advertising, change, facebook, gmail, google, growth, linkedin, social media, trust, twitter

Mark Zuckerberg no longer a social norm

Mark Zuckerberg no longer a social norm

By Martijn Linssen on January 21, 2011

A few days ago Mark Zuckerberg was offered another podium at San Fransisco’s Crunchies, where he dared to state that privacy was no longer a social norm: “People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people,” he said. “That social norm is just something […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged adapt, change, crunchies, facebook, information, Mark Zuckerberg, privacy, social media, social norm, trust

A record store - who needs one these days?

A record store – who needs one these days?

By Martijn Linssen on January 7, 2011

This morning I read in the newspapers – wait what am I saying? In the old-fashioned newspaper I actually encountered news, yes. Well it wasn’t global news of course, but national, and pertained to music. Anyway, it was news – that’s a first since a year or so. A celebrated Dutch performer, Trijntje Oosterhuis, announced […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 1.0, 2.0, adapt, change, Compact Disc, EMI, Globalisation, music, Record shop, social business design, trust

Enterprise microblogging should be pay-per-use

Enterprise microblogging should be pay-per-use

By Martijn Linssen on January 7, 2011

An article by Dennis Howlett about Socialtext and Yammer yesterday caught my attention. In essence SocialText announces that they’ll sell their product at 80% of Yammer’s price (being very brief here) but I think they’re both wrong. Social has its own Pareto rule: 90-9-1 versus the old-fashioned 80-20. It means that 1% of people creates […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged 1.0, 2.0, adapt, change, cloud computing, financials, freemium, knowledge, microblogging, pareto, pay per use, social media, socialtext, yammer | 4 Responses

Social Customer Service - proving you failed?

Social Customer Service – proving you failed?

By Martijn Linssen on January 4, 2011

A great comment by Guy Letts to my previous post on Acquisition versus Retention made me write this one – the comment is only half an hour old but blew my mind: There’s another example of how ridiculous is the pursuit of NEW rather than getting the basics right. Some large companies now boast of […]

Posted in Business | Tagged adapt, adopt, business exceptions, business rules, change, customer service, growth, social media, trust, twitter

Why acquisition beats retention

Why acquisition beats retention

By Martijn Linssen on January 4, 2011

In a short conversation with Graham Hill today, the topic of acquisition versus retention was brought up. My response to Graham’s initial question was “human nature”: @GrahamHill: If only banks, utilities, telcos put as much effort into retaining customers as they did into acquiring them < human nature and my second one was elaborating on […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 1.0, 2.0, acquisition, change, Customer retention, growth, retention | 4 Responses

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