Judy Estrin, former CTO of Cisco, is releasing a book called “closing the innovation gap” in which she suggests that overall innovation and funding for innovation is in serious trouble. Now at first read you might think that Ms. Estrin is crazy right? I mean
Retailers such as JC Penney and Victoria’s Secret are turning to social media interaction to boost back to school sales. According to an article by Information Week: “Social networking sites, virtual worlds, social shopping sites, visual search engines, interactive video, and widgets have emerged as
The NYtimes blog has apparently been able to confirm that Amazon will in fact NOT be releasing a new version of the Kindle this year. The article quotes the chief spokesperson from Amazon, Craig Berman, as saying: “Don’t believe everything you read.” “There’s a lot
Nowadays if you ask people why they are using social media (or want to) you are more than likely to get a response that sounds like one of the following: “I want to use social media to interact with my community” “I want to build
Using an analytics tools such as “google analytics” is a great way to understand where your visitors come from and what they do when they visit your site (among other things). However, I’ve noticed that a lot of folks are obsessed with their analytics, they
This morning I recevied yet another “pitch” from a company asking me to write about their new product or service. My usual response is to either ignore the pitch or (more likely) to wish for a giant shard of bamboo to find it’s way directly
If you are an individual or a company looking to get involved in social media then you need to be prepared to receive positive feedback and negative feedback. In my opinion the negative feedback is more important and in fact I would argue that all
An article by the “Technology Evangelist” states: “You don’t need to have a 2-way conversation to build a large following on Twitter. Publishing content people interesting, such a software updates, headlines, or humor are valuable whether or not you engage your followers.” Oh Really? You
Apparently Kevin Rose has some insider information on when the new ipods are coming and what they are going to look like, check it out: According to an article my Gizmodo we can expect: – Revamp of entire iPod line. – Small cosmetic changes to
Personally I have been receiving a lot of twitter spam during the last few weeks, specifically from a group of idiots who call themselves “the six figure team.” I am not even going to dignify with them with a link, I am just going to
