In case you haven’t heard, there’s a new search engine in town, Cuil (pronounced “cool”). In their own words: “Rather than rely on superficial popularity metrics, Cuil searches for and ranks pages based on their content and relevance. When we find a page with your keywords, we stay on that page and analyze the rest… Read More
A while back I stumbled on Michael Hyatt’s blog: From Where I Sit. Michael is the CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers. Regardless of where you sit, two of his recent posts are “must reads” for any one! Creating WOW Product Experiences includes a list of ten common “WOW experience” attributes that he and his management… Read More
At a recent parent teacher conference with my son’s Science teacher, I happened to notice that the best overall grade in the class was a 76. There were another two passing grades and every other student was failing! Out of 16 students 3 (20%) were passing. I asked the teacher about class performance. “This is… Read More
Dan Lyons, a.k.a. Fake Steve Jobs and a senior editor at Forbes, gave one of the Web 2.0 Expo keynotes this morning. Dan was both hilarious and thought-provoking. So how does someone become the Fake Steve Jobs? Dan asked, but Forbes wouldn’t let him start a blog. Apparently Dan was “old media” and Forbes didn’t… Read More
Highlights from three of the sessions I attended today at the Web 2.0 Expo: User-Generated Censorship Annalee Newitz, wrote an article in Wired, I Bought Votes on Digg, to illustrate how people can manipulate social networks. In today’s session, she contrasted the wisdom of crowds with their potential destructive nature. Annalee went through several sites… Read More
Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff, authors of the book Groundswell and analysts with Forrester Research, lead the Web 2.0 Expo session Creating a Coherent Social Strategy for Business. Download the presentation from Forrester and look at the “Social Technographics Ladder” (slide 8) and the authors’ mapping of key roles within a company to the key… Read More
Today is the first day of the O’Reilly Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. The first session I attended this morning was Community Building: Good, Bad, and Ugly. It was moderated by Jeremiah Owyang from Forrester Research and included Dawn Foster (Community Manager for Jive Software), Kellie Parker (Community Manager for PC World and Mac… Read More
About 4 days after I switched to a MacBook I got an iPhone. While I love this phone, some of its features still need a little work. Picture and video messaging. People send me pictures all the time. When a picture comes to me on the iPhone, I get a text message with a website… Read More