Thursday, April 16, 2009

Web 2.0 is F*Cked...


Andrew Keen: Web 2.0 Is Fucked (The Next Web 2009) from Robin Wauters on Vimeo.

Check out this video from Mike Butcher of TechCrunch Europe interviewing Andrew Keen at The Next Web 2009 Conference in Amersterdam. The title says it all....

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Monday, March 2, 2009

Evan Williams Predicts That "Normal People" Will Use Twitter In Five Years

Evan compares twitter adoption now to what blogging looked like at it's early stage. Regardless,  five years from now I'm sure Twitter will have figured out a way to monetize their product. 

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Airline Slams 'Pathetic,' 'Idiot' Blogger


Believe it or not, this is how one British airline allowed it's staff to address a blogger who thought that he had discovered a loophole in the company website that would allow people to book a free flight. You might think that this is the work of a few rogue employees, but no, not the case. CNN confirmed the blog posts with the airline spokesperson, at which point they  took a few more jabs at the 'lunatic' blogger. WOW!









Online Ads: Even the Evangelists Turning Bearish


Online Ads: Even the Evangelists Turning Bearish

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Coupon Tweet Joins The Search For Deals On Twitter (Beta Invites)

With rapid adoption of (Twitter) for commercial use, I can see that (Coupon Tweet, Cheap Tweet and twtQpon) may  help drive attention to on-demand offers being marketed via twitter. 

TinyChat - Create a Quick and Easy Chatroom




I'm not kidding it's very very easy!
TinyChat allows you to create your own chatroom on the fly. Invite as many people in and close it up when you're done. It's a quick thing with no account creation or fuss. I used TinyChat to collaborate on a couple projects, then kept receiving emails asking what's the chat tool that so-and-so was using.  So go check it out. Go to tinychat. Click on "Click to Create a Chatroom."  Invite people into your chatroom by copying the link and sending by email. This is a great tool to use across the board when many people have many different 'chat' accounts. Keep it simple with something like this.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Mining The Thought Stream

What makes Google and other search engines so valuable is that they capture people's intent, what they are looking for, what they desire, what they want to learn about. But they don’t do a great job at capturing what people are doing or what they are thinking about. For thoughts and events that are happening right now, searching Twitter increasingly brings up better results than searching Google.

Friday, February 13, 2009

Dilbert Cube Escape Plan: Yes, especially RIGHT NOW


I posted a link to the home page of Perry Marshall, one of the leading authorities on Google Pay-Per Click system, AdWords.  The message in his posting is one of breaking free to pursue your true business calling. I'm excited to share the post, because the company/business owner he identifies is my friend Paul RakovichClicksandClients.com, owner. 

Dilbert Cube Escape Plan: Yes, especially RIGHT NOW

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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Teens Spend Up to 31 Hours a Week Online


How much time do you spend online, America? [Waits for answer.] That’s funny because the average teenager spends a cool 31 hours per week online. And what does the average teen do? The usual, I guess you can say—instant message friends, surf YouTube, get homework help, view porn, etc. Just another day in Anytown, USA.

Googling Your Home Electricity Usage



If people knew how much electricity they were using every time they turned on the lights, fired up the oven or lowered the thermostat on their air-conditioner, they would make smarter decisions about their energy use, and presumably, conserve more.
Google’s PowerMeter Project: For When The Web’s Data Is Not Enough