
MasterCard Gives SMBs a Leg-Up
I’m a small and mid-sized business guy – I spend a lot of time advocating for the “little guy”. As such I’m always happy to see large companies do their bit to help SMBs compete. An interesting example of that is the MasterCard business network I recently heard about – a site that aims to […]

IT Central Station Launches–A “Yelp for Enteprise IT”
This one from the “trying to bring something from the consumer world into the enterprise but failing” category. IT Central Station is launching and billing itself as the first tech product review site for the Fortune 1000. The idea is simple – much like Yelp, people can list and review products – but in this […]

Web Second, Mobile First
Fred Wilson wrote two posts in 2010 that were very influential with the startup community. The titles were: Mobile First, Web Second Mobile First, Web Second (continued) If you’re in the minority that never read them – you should. I know that they really impacted an entire cohort of startups because every company that was […]

OnCompare: Finally a Service to Help Pick Other Web-based Services (Yes, Yelp +++)
It’s rare I get excited by a new service, but OnCompare has great promise, and if my own experience trying / discarding services is any indication, it serves a real need. Mashable calls is Yelp For Software, not without reason, in fact half a year ago it was just a cry out for help by […]

Making the Internet Smarter at Helping Us
Recommendation Slicing The Internet has a problem. It’s one you know well. The signal-to-noise ratio is getting out of hand. In non-geek speak this means that there is so much information out there now it’s hard to separate the good stuff from the rest. We all now visit UGC sites to learn about products & […]

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 […]