September 1, 2011
September 1, 2011
Serkan Toto:
Japan has always been a difficult market to enter for LinkedIn, which currently boasts 100 million registered members worldwide. But how many of them are located in Japan?
[…] it seems that the number stands at just below 370,000 […] To put things into perspective: that’s 10% of Facebook’s current user base in Japan.
An uphill battle.
September 1, 2011
Advertising will be an early indicator of whether people without vision and taste are moving in at Apple. It will be interesting to watch.
While I can’t say I agree on everything written in this article, this last line rings very true.
September 1, 2011
Why does the New York Times refer to Steve Jobs as “Steven P. Jobs”?
I learn something new everyday.
September 1, 2011
This morning’s run, which spanned central Tokyo, took me first down the western side of the Imperial Palace, across to Roppongi, through Omotesando, then up to Shinjuku. The leaf is in Kagurazaka, and the start/finish point just by the entrance to Yasukuni Shrine.
My dear Joseph has done it again. I’ve been begging for an Apple logo for so long. But he figured the timing out better than I ever could have imagined. Awesome.
August 31, 2011
But when was the last time you reviewed and updated the content on your website? If you haven’t touched your site since the “let’s get through Phase 1” launch, you’re not alone. And if it has been more than six months, you may want to surf to the dot.com featured in your email signature and check things out.
Not exactly what happened on my site here, but I’ve certainly been sucked away from blogging for too many idiotic reasons. A website is a presence. A presence that has to live and breathe continuously.
August 31, 2011
Using the open standard HTML5 technology, touch.salesforce.com will allow you to access Salesforce from virtually any smartphone and tablet. Best of all, your customizations and recently accessed items will travel seamlessly among all of your mobile devices, whether it’s your laptop, smart phone or tablet.
Along with the recent Seesmic news, here’s a company that seem to understand mobile. It has also added another mobile-compatible philosophy to Chatter: real-time.
August 31, 2011
But geo is special. I often override my default geo privacy. Every time I upload a photo taken at my house, I mark it “Contacts only”. Same for my grandma’s house. And that dark place with the goats and candles? Sorry, it’s private.
Managing geo privacy by hand is tedious and error prone.
Geo privacy done right. They seem to understand overlapping circles of connections well.
August 31, 2010
Social media is rapidly moving towards the centre of forward thinking businesses and organisations. Whereas it used to be a fringe activity [...] it’s increasingly becoming possible to align social media with wider business processes and practices. That is, social media is now making it possible for customers and stakeholders to become involved in business processes, such as product and service innovation, co-creation, and customer service. There are great opportunities for those at the centre of this revolution – people with strong communications skills – but it also requires great business acumen, with a deep understanding of the strategy, goals and ambitions of the business. [...] Communications becoming more central, and increasingly driving organisational change.
August 30, 2010
Finally, a capable Twitter search engine. Not only going back five days like the official one. Using Twitter for conference notes -call me nuts- I love the date-specific search (though a tad buggy).
July 30, 2010
…and BOOM goes the dynamite.
All hail the 500startups pirate ship! Dave ‘Sparrow’ at the helm! Godspeed.
July 30, 2010
Country-specific regulations governing privacy and data protection vary greatly
Check the interactive map Forrester has put together. Insightful.
July 29, 2010
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.
July 29, 2010
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.
July 29, 2010
Treating a company like a utility [...] can help to lock in its dominance and discourage innovation.
July 27, 2010
Have you ever worried that you might be a douche? Or if you’re douchier than friends or colleagues?
There Are More Important Things Than Apple