Boom Goes The Dynamite
…and BOOM goes the dynamite.
All hail the 500startups pirate ship! Dave ‘Sparrow’ at the helm! Godspeed. ➡ @500Startups
Archived entries for Commentary
Data Privacy Around The Globe
Country-specific regulations governing privacy and data protection vary greatly
Check the interactive map Forrester has put together. Insightful. ➡ Do You Know Where Your Data Is In The Cloud?
Knickers In A Twist
the early & late majority will never come without social proof. These are the people who want to see ROI studies (business), read NY Times reviews by David Pogue or WSJ reviews by Walt Mossberg (consumer)
Mark is on a roll. His past blog entries are nothing short of brilliant. His take on the famous funnel from early adopters to a majority of customers for your product is the type of articles I’d like to read everyday. ➡ How to Acquire Customers by Marketing “Heroes”
Defamation On Twitter
We may eventually develop a set of social rules and legal conventions that acknowledge that an angry tweet is less likely to be considered defamatory than a published article, but we are not there yet.
I seriously doubt it. While the social norms will eventually adapt to open communication, libel will remain. We have to take responsibility for what we write. What we do in public. ➡ Be careful what you tweet
Lost Return On Investment
Going through and computing the LROI of your campaigns can be a very integral exercise in building a business case for transforming your lead-management process and developing lead nurturing campaigns.
While one of the key elements of any campaign is measurement, standardized metrics all have flaws. That Lost Return on Investment (LROI) is an interesting take on how B2B campaigns rely on somewhat skewed ones. ➡ False Numbers, Lost Revenue & ‘The Karate Kid II’
Unsure
A lawyer for Facebook Inc. said she was “unsure” whether company founder Mark Zuckerberg signed a contract that purportedly entitles a New York man to 84 percent of the world’s biggest social-networking service.
Whether it’s a forgery or a case of signing contracts in college without thinking too much about it, “unsure” is not a term I’d like. Business Insider has more. ➡ Facebook Lawyer `Unsure’ Whether Founder Mark Zuckerberg Signed Contract
This Magazine Was Built For You
Flipboard will soon integrate the semantic data-analysis technology [...] in order to app better determine the relevance of the information and updates from your various social networking connections
Robert was right. Revolutionary or not, this iPad application is mesmerizing. The addition of semantic data-analysis is what I’m looking mostly forward though. My6Sense, your turn to up the ante. ➡ Flipboard, New “Social” iPad Magazine will be Powered by Semantic Data
Livecasting The Mt. Fuji Climb
At 3,776m, the summit of Mt. Fuji – a dormant volcano that last erupted a little over 200 years ago, puts you almost within arm’s reach of the International Space Station.
I cannot not link the crazy experiment we’re running at Mobile in Japan thanks to Joseph. Full live cast of the Mt. Fuji with mobile technology. ➡ Pushing Mobile Tech to the Limits: Mt. Fuji Live
Technology As Enabler Or Gatekeeper Of Creativity
The geeks – the people who have, so far, been the dominant part of culture in technology and the Internet – are like priests of a religion that finds themselves no longer the centre of their culture’s world. They are displaying all the standard behaviours of a dying religion [...] they no longer run the world [...] and their creativity is no more – or less – important than anyone else’s.
The future of creativity. Technology as an enabler or technology as a gatekeeper. ➡ The myth of “programming is the only creativity”
500 Million Friends
I want to have control. You’re so very special.
David Fincher is a movie God. ➡ The Social Network
Germination
Paul is an entrepreneur based in several cities including Tokyo and Geneva. He’s a new media analyst and frequent keynote speaker.
Featured? Unexpected. Humbled. With love to the unapologetically driven Sarah & her Kato, Erin. ➡ Sprouter Weekly, Week of July 16
Why Google Cannot Build Social Applications
With Google applications we return to the app to do something specific and then go on to something else, whereas great social applications are designed to lure us back and make us never want to leave
Google is utilitarian by DNA. Social networking mostly fanciful. If you want to understand what’s at stake for Google Me, this is a must read -even if I don’t agree with it all. ➡ Pandas and Lobsters: Why Google Cannot Build Social Applications…
