Social Business needs a Cnut
Careful with that spelling (for some reason I preferred it to Canute or Kanute). Here is my premise. I think, like Clay Shirky, that we are living in a period of transformation rivalling the changes in society triggered by the printing press, the telegraph, the telephone, photography, film, television, or the start of the Internet […]
I am not sorry that Digg is slowly dying
Digg has always been problematic for me, and watching it slowly fade away in favor of other systems like Facebook, Twitter, even Reddit has its advantages. While Louis Gray points out that Digg seemed to peak in 2007, about the time the AACS and DMCA takedown happened, Digg really faltered after that event, and never […]
IBM Still Searching for the Flying Car I Grew Up With…
Oliver Marks makes fun of IBM’s rather pointless Flying Car ad: He takes this opportunity to run a quick overview of Web 2.0, Collaboration, Social Business, then finally compares the IBM dud to a SABA video “that at least demonstrates how enterprise business networking and real time collaboration could work, which is far more useful […]
Design for the Novice, Configure for the Pro
I recently wrote about my philosophy of minimalism that “less is more” with the mantra “when in doubt, leave it out.” I’ve had a long-standing rule of thumb in product design, which I call “design for the novice, configure for the pro.” I started saying this back in 2001/02, long before the era of Web […]
Google Instant makes SEO Irrelevant? Who cares?
Steve Rubel makes an the argument that Google Instant will kill SEO because: Here’s what this [Google Instant] means: no two people will see the same web. Once a single search would do the trick – and everyone saw the…
Defrag Goals
I have tons of goals for Defrag. Being an OCD sales-freak, I track my revenue on nearly a minute by minute basis (and have corresponding goals). But those “hard numbers” goals aren’t my big, meta-goals for Defrag. My “meta-goals” are actually non-numerical in nature; derived from two conference experiences that set the bar for me […]
AbleAdvisory: You Are NOT a Gadget: A Manifesto
Check out Jaron Lanier’s new book: You are not a Gadget: A Manifesto… another one of my heroes, is one of the fathers of Virtual Reality. He actually coined the term. His new book discusses the impact of Web 2.0 and Growing up Digital on our culture. some excerpts via AlwaysON: “Something started to go […]
Can Your Product Drive Word of Mouth Marketing?
In a word, “yes”, but you have to ask yourself “will mine?” Why do certain products have buzz and why are some just plain DOA? 1. Products that get used a lot get talked about a lot (OK Steve, brain dead obvious), what’s the interesting part?). The interesting part is that when a product is […]
Cloud Computing, Advertising and TV
From a trebling of web traffic within sixty seconds of Channel 4 mentioning the Celebrity Big Brother URL on-air, to 59 million hits in a day to a restaurant web site advertised during the US Super Bowl, advertisers, broadcasters and technologists are falling over themselves to exploit a massive — and growing — opportunity. In my latest piece for […]
Introducing SAP StreamWork: New Decision Collaboration
It’s now official: SAP has released its brand-new Web 2.0 product called StreamWork. The project was initially called “Constellation” within SAP, and was first exposed to beta customers on the web site 12sprints.com, as covered in earlier postings on this site. Why the name? It’s a variant on “workstream”, which according to Wikipedia is: “A […]
Who controls what happens in your browser
Interesting tidbit over at Techdirt this morning about a Grease Monkey script called Fluff Busting Purity formerly known as Facebook Purity. While the Techdirt article is good, there are some interesting side issues here that should be noted. Many people run scripts within their browser that kills data coming in from web sites, most popular […]
Twitter is 4 today
A few months back on the 19th of November 2009 NESTA, as part of their Silicon Valley comes to the UK sequence of events, televised a discussion called “Social Media: A Force for Good?“. The panel was our very own national treasure, actor, QI master and twitterphile Stephen Fry, Biz Stone the Founder and Chief […]
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 […]
How to make a graphically rich web site search engine friendly
Some folks might know that we started our own ebook publishing company and the big announcement will be at Emerald City Comic Con on the 13th of March 2010. What has been interesting though is as we have been busy building the web site, we are working a lot with Google Web Master tools, guidelines, […]
Startup Weekend Hits SXSW 2010
Startup Weekend and Piryx are working on the 2nd Annual Piryxtopia Charity Bash – this is your chance to donate 20 bucks and get tickets to meet up with Startup Weekend and Pyrix. This also ties into the idea of doing startup support in Haiti via We Hear Your Voice. You need to go here […]
