Recent Articles
Understanding the New Web Era: Web 3.0, Linked Data, Semantic Web
This is a good overview with summary of what Web 3.0, Linked Data, and Semantic Web is all about. Well worth a read to get a better understanding of where the web is going…
The series aimed to tie together 3 big trends, all based around structured data: 1) the still nascent “Web 3.0″ concept, 2) the relatively new kid on the structured Web block, Linked Data, and 3) the long-running saga that is the Semantic Web. Greg’s series is probably the best explanation I’ve read all year about the way these trends are converging.
Seth Godin: Three things you need if you want more customers
Once again, sage advice from Seth’s Blog:
“Three things you need if you want more customers
If you want to grow, you need new customers. And if you want new customers, you need three things:
1. A group of possible customers you can identify and reach.
2. A group with a problem they want to solve using your solution.
3. A group with the desire and ability to spend money to solve that problem.You’d be amazed at how often new businesses or new ventures have none of these. The first one is critical, because if you don’t have permission, or knowledge, or word of mouth, you’re invisible.
The Zune didn’t have #2.
A service aimed at creating videos for bestselling authors doesn’t have #1.
And a counseling service helping people cut back on Big Mac consumption doesn’t have #3.”
It is always amazing to see the number of investment proposals for “The Next Big Thing” that have NONE of these three things. Follow this simple tip and your chances of success will skyrocket!
Happy Holidays
It’s that time of year again. We’d like to wish our friends a hearty, and heartfelt, Happy Holidays. May you spend it safely in the company of your loved ones…
Our office will be closed from Monday December 22, 2008 and will be reopening on Monday January 5, 2009.
Thank you all for your support in the past year. Here’s wishing you and yours all the best. We look forward to working with you again in the new year!
Cloud Computing Turns Virtual Teams Into a Competitive Advantage
Chris Yeh, VP of Enterprise Marketing, PBWiki and social networking guru talks about the importance of collaborating across corporate boundaries. This piece is also a good reflection on how “small is the new big.” This ability of small and medium sized businesses to do more with less is seen to trump “too big to fail” in our economic downturn.
How Does Collaboration Help Me Do More With Less?
While collaboration in the cloud has many soft benefits like allowing greater geographic diversity and encouraging a participatory culture, during these tough times, the hard benefits of collaboration take center stage. The bottom line is that collaboration helps you do more with less, and by definition, virtual companies and teams are all about less. Less time. Less money. Less inefficiency. Less employees.Here are four practical ways that collaboration in the cloud enables businesses (virtual and otherwise) to do more with less:
Ditch your servers
Cut down on travel
Enable outsourcing and offshoring
Improve knowledge worker productivity
Required Reading in Social Media
From Regular Geek, here is the required reading list for people interested in social media:
First, there are the blogs I recommended in the quick guide, Louis Gray, Alexander van Elsas, Muhammad Saleem, SarahInTampa and SheGeeks. In many cases, you may see these people or others in the list guest posting (or writing full time) at ReadWriteWeb or Mashable, which you should be reading anyway. Here is the rest of my list:
- Tamar Weinberg of Techipedia (and Mashable and several other sites)
- Reem Abeidoh
- Mark Dykeman of Broadcasting Brain, with apologies to Mark for falsely accusing him of including social marketing
Sorry Mark.
- Colin Walker
- Hutch Carpenter of I’m Not Actually a Geek, but absolutely should admit his geekiness.
- Social News Watch, which covers the social news sites almost exclusively.
- JD Rucker of Soshable
- Chris Miller of The Social Networker
- Julian Baldwin