I saw this on TechCrunch earlier today and thought it was an awesome add to my big data series. Jeff Jonas is clearly a big thinker and I agree with almost everything he says. The only thing I take issue with is the recurring theme in this interview that Big Data is primarily about commerce… Continue reading Talking Big Data with IBM’s Jeff Jonas
Category: Innovation
From Silicon Valley to Madison Avenue in 20 Years
I don’t get it… I really don’t. When (and why) did silicon valley abandon the idea that technology – particularly the web based variety – had intrinsic value. The kind of transformative value that people would pay for… Find me two business plans for an online consumer product that don’t have “and monazite via ad… Continue reading From Silicon Valley to Madison Avenue in 20 Years
Big Data and Real Time – What I’ve Learned
I’ve been thinking about writing a series of posts about Big Data for months now… which is entirely too much thinking an not enough doing, so here we go. And, by Big Data we mean… Wikipedia offers a very computer science oriented explanation of Big Data – but while the size of the dataset is… Continue reading Big Data and Real Time – What I’ve Learned
TweetsForBoobs – How justSignal Helped Make it Happen
Reposted from the justSignal Blog (http://justsignal.com) Sometimes the best way to illustrate how justSignal can accelerate your strategy is by providing concrete examples of how others have accelerated theirs. TweetsForBoobs is raising money for the Susan G. Komen foundation by encouraging folks to tweet the #tweetsforboobs hash tag on Twitter. It is the brain child… Continue reading TweetsForBoobs – How justSignal Helped Make it Happen
Open Push Email
People are obsessed with making their email “broadcast”. Push email is a big deal… but sadly it means you have to lock yourself into a single email service from a single provider. You want near real-time push email… Blackberry or Exchange… or you can pretty much forget about it. So, why can’t we have an… Continue reading Open Push Email
No @zappos Best Practices Don’t Stifle Innovation…
One of the problems with Twitter is that it encourages trite overly-simplistic statements of fact. Hey, here is one from Tony (@zappos) the CEO of Zappos: I’m only posting about this because it has been re-tweeted like a bazillion times in the last 3 hours by twitterati proclaiming it’s complete and utter truth. And I’ll… Continue reading No @zappos Best Practices Don’t Stifle Innovation…
On Iran, Technology and Social Media
There is a reason we value art and those who create it. I could write 3 or 4 hundred words about how technology and Social Media are making it impossible for despots to control the message… or I could just point you to the justSignal FreeIran site and get out of the way and let… Continue reading On Iran, Technology and Social Media
justSignal Upgrades, or My Lame Attempt to Explain Ignoring My Blog
I’ve gone through another one of those spells where I just didn’t write anything here – and to say I’ve been busy isn’t enough – hell I’m always busy. I also can’t claim lack of interesting content – I could write six really compelling pieces on ASU Startup Weekend alone. So we’ll just agree that… Continue reading justSignal Upgrades, or My Lame Attempt to Explain Ignoring My Blog
What Do People Think is Great? A justSignal Experiment
More than any other word “innovator” describes me best. I’m not saying I’m Steve Jobs – I’m just saying I’m constantly fascinated by new, interesting combinations of ideas that add value. This morning – as I watched the Follow Friday Tweets FLY by on the justSignal tracker I began to wonder… Wouldn’t it be great… Continue reading What Do People Think is Great? A justSignal Experiment
Why Twitter Search Does Not Mean Twitter is a Search Engine
Arrington is back. And he dropped a nice post today over at TechCrunch indicating that he believes it is time to start thinking of Twitter as a Search Engine. In general terms I agree… but as always the devil is in the details. There is one major hole in Arrington’s theory, but that hole is… Continue reading Why Twitter Search Does Not Mean Twitter is a Search Engine