Recently, at the Web 2.0 summit, Palm’s CEO said (as reported in All Things Digital): Palm created the PDA space with the Pilot and the smartphone space after it with the Treo…So by birthright, Palm should have owned the smartphone market, but it just lost its way. I’ve been intrigued by this facet of the [...]
Very well drafted and inciteful list of predictions for 2010. The author, Ravit Lichtenberg, delves into what will impact innovation, while opining that mobile become even more central, integrated/social search relevancy will begin to trump search aggregators like Google, and marketers will demand ROI. Excellent discussion on measurment tactics for Google AdWords campaigns. Discusses basics [...]
Free is not the future of business. Jason Fried, founder of 37 Signals, made this argument earlier this year at the Future of Web Apps conference. And this comment to Fried’s statement makes a great argument based on simple economics: free is unsustainable from a product development perspective. So how does Red Hat make money [...]
Crowdsourcing is an important concept in the viability, pertinence, and relevancy of the social web. A recent crowdsourcing search odyssey of mine (really a two hour drop down the Google search rabbit hole) began with a fairly innocuous @robhahn tweet: I read recently that a 2-person combat team is four times as effective as a [...]
Thank you to Nic Brisbourne and his The Equity Kicker blog for (a) highlighting an intriguing video of UK journalists debating the veracity and viability of blogs and (b) pointing out an excellent presentation on the Customer Development Model. Both offer some tasty take-aways. I find the debate curious. Universal McCann’s 2008 Wave 3 study [...]
Here’s an interview about Twitter with a friend of mine who owns a manufacturing plant in Northwest Chicago. Of course, I was evangelizing the incredible value, benefits, and just awesome coolness of Twitter, but he was a little skeptical… I think Tom has good advice. It’s easy to get caught up in a Gartner hype [...]
