BREAKING: Google to Capitol Records–We’re Not Going to Let You Shut Down Cloud Computing
Can someone tell Capitol Records that the music has stopped? If you haven’t been following events, Capitol Records (EMI) has sued Boston-based Redigi (a used digital music marketplace) for what amounts to copyright infringement. Today, Google decided to enter the fray as a third party, and filed an amicus curiae brief (friend of the court) […]
Master These 5 Remarkable Strategies of Motivation and Go Straight to the Top
According to a recent Gallup Poll, about a third of all U.S. workers are dissatisfied with either the recognition they receive, their chances for promotion, or the amount of money they earn. Worse, seventy-one percent of American workers are “not engaged” or “actively disengaged” in their work. Since most of us cannot change the economy, […]
Music Industry to Business: If We Can’t Buy SOPA/PIPA Laws, We’ll Just Sue You Instead
The song Blackout is moving up the Music Industry charts, and is bound to reach number one because it fits the industry’s belief systems. In what can only be described as acts of Dumb and Dumber, the music industry is now targeting businesses in their quest to censor the internet and control our rights to […]
How Yammer Should Have Responded to the TechCrunch Ad Hominem
I can’t help but laugh at the TechCrunch gang’s corporate ad hominem last week. It seemed more of a personal attack than any real attempt to provide a product review. TechCrunch didn’t merely reproach their building mate, they reprimanded them. Stranger, most of the article really didn’t say anything at all, because they were not […]
If this Bill Passes, The Angel Investment Community is Dead and Companies Like Kickstarter Take Over
H.R. 2930 appears to be just another US Congressional Bill winding its way through the system. Yet I can imagine most Professional Angel Investors recognize (or should) the bill and its potential impact on their livelihood. The House has already passed it with a 95% majority. It’s now on to the Senate and possibly the […]
The Most Influential People in Performance Marketing (infographic)
The Performance Marketing industry has come under fire for a series of incidents that have tarred the industry. An important industry that can make or break your company. The community has a range of people from the slick evangelist to the online marketing champion. Sometimes it’s difficult to distinguish who is who. According to the […]
Steve Jobs THINK DIFFERENT – a Visual Tribute
Saddened by the loss of an individual who has brought great joy and anticipation back into our lives. He’s the only individual I know of where millions of people tune into his product announcements. He’s earned that level of attention by bringing to market products that create emotional bonds with the owner. So, out of […]
The Most Successful 9/11 Social Advocacy Movement Ever and How They Did It
It’s not in character for these advocates to boast, which is appropriate, really, for the cause they are supporting leaves little to boast about. They could of course, if they were the bragging type, brag about the 300,000 Facebook fans they acquired in just 70 days; or the one million unique visitors to their 911day.org […]
Why BranchOut is a Better Recruiting Solution than LinkedIn (Hint: It’s Social)
“68 percent of people who understand HTML prefer nonfiction, compared with 48 percent of people in general.” Based on a survey of 44 people who know HTML and 116 people in general. – from Correlated.org Correlated.org is a new site that helps discover unexpected correlations between seemingly unrelated things. It’s fascinating how they develop the […]
Sell Used Music on Redigi: A Threat to Apple’s iTunes?
I remember a time when the only way to buy music was to drive down to the local music store and purchase a cassette tape. You had to buy the whole album then. Yes, I’m serious. When the tape got old or the music fell out of favor I threw it away, listed in the […]
The Fortune 100 League of Extraordinary Social CMOs (infographic)
Many are calling 2011 the year of the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). I can assure you, it will not be called the year of the Social CMO. In our analysis only 15 of the 143 CMO’s and Chief Communication Executives (CCO’s) in the Fortune 100 we studied have active Twitter Accounts. Worse, 15% of them […]
Kiip.me to Mobile Game Developers: There will be Ice Cream
Brian Wong discusses his company and the future of mobile advertising Fourteen minutes into the movie, there’s a great scene that serves as the perfect prologue for the events to come. Daniel Plainview has launched into a sales pitch to convince the town to accept his offer to drill into their land. He exclaims […]
Why IBM’s Watson Computer is Still a Moron
“The computer is a moron” – Peter Drucker Computer programming technology is still dominated by “if – then” logic. That means computers are still using logic (human programmed) to determine the answer to a question which must be part of a pool of answers. If the answers are not in the pool, the computer will […]
The Top 25 Hottest Mobile Game Developers (Infographic)
A Guide for Consumers and Brands Gartner estimates the Mobile Game market will reach $11.4 billion by 2014. That’s a big number. Compare that with 2010 Video Game and Movie Box office receipts which have revenues of $18.58 million and $10.16 billion respectively. Mobile games are going to be an increasingly important market. Further, as mobile […]
Does Every Company Need a Robert Scoble? (infographic)
What I learned in 2010 can be summed up in one individual Except for reading the occasional year end articles (notables include Kotadia, Maggie Fox, McAfee) I typically skip the tradition of trying to summarize an entire year in 10 bullet points. The Enterprise 2.0/Social Business space is just too dynamic with many starts, stops […]
