What does it take to be a marketing expert? If expertise is all about familiarity, then just about everybody in America qualifies: We’re all so inundated with marketing images that it’s only natural that we all figure we understand the language, the rules, the way it’s done. This idea has lately been taken to its [...]
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I have seen it happen so many times throughout my career. I’m looking for a piece of software or an online service that solves a business problem. I know it’s out there, and when I find it I bring it to the decision makers for review.
They look at it closely, get excited about the features [...]
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eBay boasts on their successful “feedback” system, which is certainly their most valuable asset. The system enables users to judge sellers, by examining their historical transactions. Sounds promising to someone who just signed up for a new account on eBay. But can one trust eBay as much as one trusts its feedback system?
Another incident of [...]
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As mentioned in this WSJ article, web address hijacking is not new but what new is that its increasing on daily basis.
The thieves — taking advantage of companies that have either let down their guard or failed to take adequate precautions — are often after financial gain, since short or memorable domains can be [...]
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ZiiTrend is a new social prediction site that wants you to help predict the future on just about any subject you can think of.
Whatever your question or interest may be, you can join up on ZiiTrend and try to work with others to see what the future holds. You can browse for already existing questions [...]
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All of us are overloaded with feeds from various newspapers, magazines, and blogs. The number of newspapers, magazines, and blogs I track are increasing every day, and hence the number of feeds. What is not increasing is the time I devote to read these feeds. I have tried Techmeme, Bloglines etc but most of them [...]
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Services like Mint, Google Docs, and Meebo have taken things that are platform dependent and put them online. One thing that I love about the AJAX world we live in is I can now do my personal finances, not in quicken, but in Mint. Sure it is still in its infancy for features, but it [...]
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Google may be the ultimate do-it-yourself company. From the start, Google’s sense of its own engineering superiority, combined with a tightwad sensibility, led it to build its own servers. It writes its own operating systems.
It is now threatening to buy wireless carrier spectrum and it is getting ready to hire ships that will lay a [...]
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The Forrester Report, published this week, offers a five-year forecast for 15 consumer technologies. Here are some of its highlights:
Digital video recorders (DVRs), will grow from 21 million US households (end of last year) to more than 69 million households.
Home networks, will grow from 21 million households (2006), to more than 58 million households.
HDTVs is [...]
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So what else can Web 2.0 do? (it reminds me of the question we used to ask others in 80s - what else can a computer do?) — find the best talent out there! Yes, this is another area where web 2.0 is revolutionizing the recruitment process.
>> Companies such as HP that venture deeper into [...]
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Enterprises continue to adopt web technologies and ‘web 2.0′ trends, but there are two common threads to this adoption. One is that web technologies are step-by-step being adopted by enterprises, but they aren’t yet ready to usurp many desktop software apps. The Google Apps vs Microsoft Office debate currently raging is proof of that. The [...]
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