Personally I see no benefit in the lists of 500 friends that you see on Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter, but to each his own and if you happen to be the kind of person who is that social then more power to ya! Personally I’m not, and I think that my friend lists prove that [...]
Here is another of my old posts from a now defunct blog, originally posted 6/20/07.
I’ve shown off Twittervision to just about everyone that I can…I figure that I ought to include it here in the blog. Careful though: I find this so addictive that I’ve interrupted this blog entry four times so far to [...]
Seth Porges’ post on CrunchGear yesterday on laziness killing Web 2.o brought some thoughts that I have been having about Web 2.o into focus. First of all Web 2.0 is not only about social networks like MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn. Web 2.o’s social component encompasses sites like YouTube, Flickr, del.icio.us, Twitter and other [...]
Americans trust bloggers more than the Congress, Senate or the Media in general according to a recent survey by BIGresearch. That statement is going to get the press and what got my attention, but the good news is that over 70% of people don’t trust any of them.
Why is that good news? I am [...]
Here is another of my old posts from a now defunct blog, originally posted 6/13/07.
Here are some definitions for a variety of terms often used when discussing Web 2.0. Some are programming languages and techniques; others are concepts and types of media. These are my definitions and won’t include every last detail or facet of [...]
I owe my livelihood to the internet, so here’s my shout out to One Web Day. I remember back in ‘94 going online for the first time and being so excited about the opportunities for connection. I made my own little site while I waited for my computer to reboot, which is a [...]
Here is another of my old posts from a now defunct blog, originally posted 6/12/07.
You can’t convince management to let employees blog, and including user recommendations on your site is even scarier to them. A social network makes no sense for your business, and the marketing budget certainly won’t include a new site built with [...]
I love this quote from Bill Tancer, general manager of global research at Hitwise.
“The online focus of the last presidential election was all about blogs and their effectiveness in communicating with potential voters, in the 2008 Presidential election, the Internet’s role is changing from a one way communication channel to a two-way conversation enabled by [...]
Here is another of my old posts from a now defunct blog, originally posted 6/10/07.
Ever wonder why your company’s website doesn’t always appear on the first page of results when you search? After all, your agency says they’ve “search engine optimized” it, you’ve paid your search engine marketing dues, what’s the deal?
As the online experience [...]
Here is another of my old posts from a now defunct blog, originally posted 5/31/07.
I was in Minneapolis the other day visiting a client, and while my client rented a car, I tried out the rental car company’s new kiosks where you can print out directions to your destination. These kiosks should be a win, [...]
