Good Saturday morning to everyone. These posts track the meme that is Follow Friday. Today I’m in Austin Texas for Ustream Studios at the Belmont during SXSW (that is South by Southwest). I was on last night live discussing how technology and the real-time web enables Government 2.0 with Francine Hardaway and Tom Serres, C.E.O,… Continue reading Follow Friday – March 13th 2009 – Follow Friday the 13th?
Category: Analysis
Follow Friday – March 6th, 2009 – Tracking the Meme
Well this appears to be my new Saturday morning ritual. Pulling together data from Follow Friday for your viewing pleasure. I want to thank Mashable and Micah for the post on Mashable yesterday featuring a screenshot of the justSignal Follow Friday Tracker. Well lets get on with it, shall we? There were a total of… Continue reading Follow Friday – March 6th, 2009 – Tracking the Meme
What Happened to the Value of Being Well Read?
There was a time, and it doesn’t seem all that long ago, that people valued the company of those who were well read. We used to seek out those who were more than knowledgeable, more than conversant in this topic or that, but those who had the ability to discuss a wide variety of topics… Continue reading What Happened to the Value of Being Well Read?
Video: OMG!!! Twitter got Hacked!!! AND VoIP isn’t dead… just irrelevant.
Various and sundry links pertaining to today’s video blog: Dan York’s Blog Post Today’s nonsense about OAuth on FriendFeed http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2733016&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=8f3b55&fullscreen=1 Video Blog 01-05-2009 OMG Twitter got Hacked and VoIP isn’t dead, it is Irrelevant from Brian Roy on Vimeo.
Verizon Jacks SMS Rates
I use – as does cosinity – SMS for a variety of communications. This morning – my SMS service provider Clickatell – notified me this morning that Verizon had decided to charge an additional 3 cents each for SMS sent from an “application”. That means the average SMS sent to a Verizon user will cost… Continue reading Verizon Jacks SMS Rates
More articles predicting doom for startups
I feel like the grim reaper here… really I’m not throwing myself out a window. So why am I posting these? it is important for entrepreneurs to NOT bury their heads in the sand. I would also take a moment to point out that the majority of this news is coming from Silicon Valley –… Continue reading More articles predicting doom for startups
Another solution to avoid Automated Call Hell
There have been many of these over the last few years… none all that successful. The problem (as I see it) is that you don’t know when or why you’ll need to call one of those annoying toll free numbers… and at that point it is too late for the application/service. That being said… as… Continue reading Another solution to avoid Automated Call Hell
Club E Network planning an AZ business incubator.
Good news for AZ entrepreneurs. I’m of the opinion that there is far more talent in AZ and Phoenix in particular than we get credit for. Being a 12 year Silicon Valley veteran I’ve seen the talent in both locations, and while there is little doubt that the talent in SV is far more start-up… Continue reading Club E Network planning an AZ business incubator.
TechCrunch – VC Deals In Charts (Q2 2008)
Interesting data from TechCrunch today on VC investments for Q2 of 2008. The venture capital market still appears healthy even with the general slowdown of the economy. One upside of what we are seeing is – as more Fortune 1000 companies “trim the fat” (which usually means shipping out high pay/long term employees) we’ll see… Continue reading TechCrunch – VC Deals In Charts (Q2 2008)
We shouldn’t confuse computer literacy with information literacy.
File this under “Yikes! That can’t be good.” Press Release from The British Library. A new study overturns the common assumption that the ‘Google Generation’ – youngsters born or brought up in the Internet age – is the most web-literate. The first ever virtual longitudinal study carried out by the CIBER research team at University… Continue reading We shouldn’t confuse computer literacy with information literacy.