Jan 27, 2009

ReadWriteWeb In his book The Innovator's Dilemma, Professor Clayton Christensen of Harvard Business School describes the theory of how large outstanding firms can fail "by doing everything right." The innovator's dilemma, according to Christensen, affects companies whose success and capabilities can actually become obstacles in the face (Read More)

Jan 17, 2009

Submitted by Louisgray from Google Reader: Do you remember that old Toys R’ Us jingle? “I don’t wanna grow up. I’m a Toys R’ Us kid…” Lately I’ve been hearing that in my head but with slightly different lyrics. “I don’t wanna grow up. I’m a Web 2.0 kid…” It’s time to grow up Web 2.0 kids. It’s time to go out an actually earn some revenue from paying customers. It’s (Read More)

Jan 13, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Long time innovator Marc Canter has made a proposal for a system to let users integrate all their social networks from around the web into one central dashboard. He calls it the DiSO Dashboard. So far it's just a vision, albeit a pretty specific one, but we expect to see something like this on the market very soon. Is it (Read More)

Nov 06, 2008

OpenSocial API Blog The OpenSocial Foundation community representatives election has concluded. With 311 eligible voters and 213 valid ballots cast, the community has selected Jay Parikh, and Joseph Smarr to serve as the two community representatives for this year's board. Congratulations to Jay and Joseph!By way of introduction...A bit about (Read More)

Nov 06, 2008

InfoWorld RSS Feed Last week, Microsoft announced its cloud-computing effort, called Azure. Fitting between Google's and Amazon.com's current offerings, it represents a very big step toward moving applications off the desktop and out of a corporation's own datacenters. Whether or not it will have any traction with corporate IT developers rema (Read More)

Nov 05, 2008

TechCrunch a study by Anderson Analytics confirms what everyone already suspects: LinkedIn users are rich. Nearly 60% of users have incomes of $93,000 or more. Executives with an average income of 104,000 make up 28% of the 2,000 random users polled for the study. Another 30% are self-identified “consultants” with an avera (Read More)

Oct 23, 2008

Mashable! In his post on why the traditional CPM model doesn’t work anymore, Dave McClure breaks the CPM denial balloon, noting that the popular content-centric, keyword-based Google Adword model delivers a click-through rate of less than 1%. Dave posits that the problem is not Google-specific, but reflects the problem with the (Read More)

Oct 24, 2008

ReadWriteWeb The OpenSocial Foundation has announced elections for its Board of Directors, the governing body that helps the non-profit organization "sustain the free and open development of OpenSocial specifications."Thirteen candidates have been nominated to fill two "Community Director" Board seats. Among the nominees are several fam (Read More)

Oct 21, 2008

Submitted by Louisgray from Google Reader: Wow. All in one day, I learn that the Facebook platform is dead, Blogs are passé and RSS is only used by 11% of people (or some percentage of those who know what it is).Here’s my response: 1. I have no idea if the Facebook platform is alive or dead. I’ve got left-over MREs from Y2K, however, so I think I can survive its dem (Read More)

Oct 08, 2008

Submitted by Robdiana from blog: Image via CrunchBaseAs usual, Chris Brogan has a very good post regarding people in the real world and social media. The basic idea is that “normal” people live in a different world than the social media crowd:Sometimes, it’s worth flashing a bit of a public reminder that even though it seems like lots of us [.. (Read More)

Oct 12, 2008

Louis Gray - FriendFeed This morning, I had the pleasure of taking part in a podcast with Wayne Sutton and Kipp Bodnarf for their Talk Social News program. During the conversation, we discussed how to find time to participate in multiple social networks, how today's technology luddites might some day consume information, using RSS, and what the re (Read More)

Oct 08, 2008

TechCrunch Seattle has has a heck of a tech scene, but isn’t so big that the community breaks down into cliques and haters as Silicon Valley often does in the boom times. Maybe that’s why I spend so much time up here.Like other tech hubs, successful Seattle entrepreneurs tend to become angel investors and help the next cro (Read More)

Oct 03, 2008

All Facebook This afternoon word that Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder of Facebook, was leaving to start a new venture start to spread and within a short period of time, a number of blogs had access to a Facebook note posted by Moskovitz’s developer companion, Justin Rosenstein. Apparently Rosenstein and Moskovitz are leaving to crea (Read More)

Oct 02, 2008

Mashable! Mark Davis is an NYC-based tech VC that blogs on technology and the venture world at Get Venture.I recently wrote a post about the ways in which ad networks can differentiate themselves. One of the three key considerations is type of inventory. With a belief that ads will continue to penetrate more facets of our lives, I t (Read More)

Oct 01, 2008

Submitted by Hutch from Google Reader: There is an interesting article (and useful graphic) by Hutch Carpenter today, picking up a Tim O'Reilly post reminding people that the original concept of Web 2.0 was far wider than just Social Media (in fact, in the original definition Social Media hardly featured it).Over the summer we've been doing a little bit of analy (Read More)

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