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Every time I read this I go off into fits of laughter. Having spent fifteen years now doing project management on one thing or another, I can relate to this very deeply. Sometimes Scott Adams really nails it.
“This is an A to B conversation, so C you later.”
On Monday, March 26th, 2007, Bob Chaworth-Musters and his team will once again be offering their Investor Ready 101 course, a fantastic day of coaching for young companies to learn how to prepare their investor pitches. This is a lead-in to the Angel Forum that will be held on April 24th, 2007. At the Angel [...]
My friend Debbie and her team at Dealmaker Media are running the “Under the Radar: Office 2.0” conference in Mountain View, CA on March 23, 2007. Aside from having been on the selection committee with some fine folks (Rod Boothby, Richard McManus, Zoli Erdos, Ismael Ghalimi, Stowe Boyd, Ori Weinroth, Brad Feld, and Rafe Needleman), [...]
I have the good fortune of speaking on March 21, 2007 at AJAXWorld and have chosen as my topic, “Maximize Your Revenue From Your Web 2.0 Venture”. The event “blurb” is here: What do you do to maximize your revenue? The options are exploding, the ecosystem is becoming more complex and nobody seems to be [...]
Ean Jackson and I will be presenting on Web 2.0, Office 2.0, and Enterprise 2.0 to a group of communications professionals at the High-Tech Communicators Exchange on April 30, 2007. Location is TBA. (Event site, [Powerpoint not yet available]) The purpose of the talk is to explain how the Web 2.0 principles are migrating from [...]
This is the presentation I did with Ean Jackson to the International Internet Marketing Association (IIMA) on Web 2.0 for online marketers: (Event site, Powerpoint file)
This is a copy of the presentation that Ean Jackson and I gave at the Fraser Valley Technology Network on May 12, 2006 titled “Web 2.0 – What is it and why should you care?” (FVTN event link, Powerpoint file)
Let me be one of the first people to welcome my friend, Web 2.0 Manifesto co-author, and speaking partner Ean Jackson back to the blogosphere after a couple of prior attempts. He is using his spiffy new Terapad site located at http://www.21centurysales.com. I can’t wait to hear about his experiences building off-shored sales programs for [...]
My friend Jeremy Geelan has just posted an interesting question on his blog at Sys-con where he asks: “Who Are The All-Time Heroes of i-Technology?” He is attempting to garner a list of approximately 150 names and then find some means to winnow them down to the Top 20. Personally, I think that the arbitrary [...]
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(For the most recent articles on Web 2.0, check out my full Web 2.0 articles category.) Why (Almost) Every Company Should Stop Procrastinating and Start Blogging NOW The time for equivocation, waffling, and procrastination is done. It is time to get blogging. Ten years ago, people used to ask me: “Should we get email?” Then [...]
(For the most recent articles on Web 2.0, check out my full Web 2.0 articles category.) This article was originally published in the October 2006 issue of Cutter IT Journal. For more information, please visit www.cutter.com/itjournal.html . The full Web 2.0 issue is available as a complimentary download here here: http://www.cutter.com/offers/web2.html Full article below: DRIVING [...]
What is it with humans and their pets? Three completely unrelated news stories of late all connected in the neurons of my brain and I have to ask: what low-level function in the human brain is responsible for this intense desire for humans to have pets? Maybe the nurturing gene(s)? Dogster got some funding back [...]
I first heard of Pickspal from Andrew McAfee in August 2006. Then from Michael Arrington. Venture Beat’s Matt Marshall has written a good summary of their venture. In short, Pickspal lets people bet on sports – nothing new there. But they they figure out which of their many thousands of customers are able to pick [...]
IBM rocks. They keep doing cool things. They’re spending a ton of money on wikis and light-weight scripting languages. And they asked 100,000 of their customers, partners, and employees to develop an innovation pipeline. Now they are spending a reported $100M (according to BusinessWeek) in an effort to capitalize on Second Life and other immersive [...]
(For the most recent articles on Web 2.0, check out my full Web 2.0 articles category.) This posting has links to all of the Web 2.0 Summit 2006 blog posts that I wrote: Day 1 Enterprise 2.0 SMB Session Launch Pad Keynote with Eric Schmidt Joi Ito on Worlds of Warcraft Ben Trott of Six [...]
Here are my summary thoughts on the 3 day Web 2.0 Summit 2006 in SF, CA There were some overall themes that seemed to prevail in the sessions I attended and I’m going to try to capture them here in no particular sequence. It’s one thing to have sat in all the sessions or to [...]
Here are the day 3 notes for the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco: [My notes are in this square brackets.] Harnessing Collective Intelligence with Jim Buckmaster (Craigslist), Owen Van Natta (Facebook), Toni Schneider (Automattic), and Richard Rosenblatt (Demand Media) On the panel: Jim Buckmaster / CEO, Craigslist Owen Van Natta, COO of Facebook Toni [...]
Here are the day 3 notes for the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco: [My notes and analysis in this square brackets.] The Alumni Report – Web 2.0 Launches Revisited: Michael Tanne / Wink: he gave a very long demo Veoh Networks: YouTube except for high-resolution long videos. We have figured out how to store [...]
Here are the day 3 notes for the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco: [My notes and analysis are in these square brackets.] From the Labs: eBay Research Labs, Eric Billingsley: we now have 800,000 people making part or all of their living on that marketplace. labs employees are doing a 3 way split: 1/3 [...]
Here are the day 3 notes for the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco: [My notes and analysis are in these square brackets.] Disruption Opportunity: Venture Capital: Roger McNamee (private equity) and Ram Shiram (seed investing) Shiram: I DO believe that it’s cheap to start a company; it is hard to find talent though. Content [...]
Here are the day 3 notes for the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco: [My notes and analysis are in these square brackets.] Yahoo! Technology Preview Brad Garlinghouse Web 2.0 is about people and emotions Technical specs have never been less relevant Email was sent in fall 35 years ago [I use a rule of [...]
Mark Morford has just written what can only be described as one of the most incredible customer testimonials I have ever read. Every company on the planet should aspire to create the kind of loyalty and lust and pure unadulterated joy that Apple seems to have successfully created in Mark’s eyes. Another writer recently posted [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.]A Conversation with Ray Ozzie: Question: Does Microsoft “get it”? Answer: It’s a big company. Some people really “got it” – they got the shift that this industry is undergoing. Others didn’t get it. So I [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.]“What GoDaddy Knows” by Bob Parson, CEO of Godaddy You need to be careful about who to listen to – like analysts who don’t understand basic business. www.bobparsons.com – he talked about why they filed for [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.]The Global Plant Floor, by Don Tapscott, author of the new book Wikinomics Just now publishing “wikinomics” – a new book about how mass collaboration changes everything Available for pre-order now: First chapter is available here [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.]Cops and Robbers Las Vegas Style, with Jeff Jonas, chief scientist of the IBM Entity Analytic Solutions group has some very interesting ideas on “the database of intentions concept” founded SRD in 1983 worked with the [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.]Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com, speaking on Enterprise 2.0 mashups. “Bezos’ presentation summed up one aspect of our business. You have to move from being a killer app to a killer platform. “ We have an elastic database; [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.]CyWorld Revealed, Hyun-Oh Yoo, CEO of SK Communications, owners of CyWorld We have 20M subscribers, 40% of the population of Korea (!); 96% of 20-29 year olds (!); 20B monthly page views; [Wow - those numbers [...]
