Posted in Web 2.0, blogs, wisdom of crowds on Wednesday, 16 July 2008, 9:38 am | No Comments »
Jason Calacanis, who rose to fame on his blog (and blog company) has stopped blogging. He’s now sending out an e-mail missive to a select few. As he explains it in his first missive:
Comments on blogs inevitably implode, and we all accept it> under the belief that “open is better!” Open is not better. Running [...]
Posted in Ryz, Web 2.0, community site, crowd sourcing, footwear, open sourcing, wisdom of crowds on Sunday, 13 July 2008, 5:29 pm | 2 Comments »
Rock on! I got a pair of this design, “The Creep” by Caveman, in Size 10. A very pleasant and smooth online shopping experience. History being made. Get your pair today, of what will no doubt become collector’s items. Or submit your own design to be voted on by the masses. (For more on Ryz, [...]
Posted in Amazon, Apple, CRM, Loyalty Programs, RSS, Web 2.0 on Sunday, 13 July 2008, 12:54 pm | 1 Comment »
I’ve been meaning to do this ever since I got a Blackberry and started my own business 15 months ago. And now that I’ve done it, it feels great. And I highly recommend you do it too: Unsubscribe from all the CRM/Loyalty programs who you opted in to receive emails from.
Here’s my story:
I, like you, [...]
Posted in 3G, Enterprise 2.0, Web 2.0, blackberry, collaborative software, enterprise collaboration, iPhone on Wednesday, 9 July 2008, 4:38 pm | 1 Comment »
Enterprise 2.0 collaboration tools promise us a different way of working: instead of a company’s knowledge being locked up in A4-formatted MS Office documents and being ping-ponged back and forth via point-to-point email we begin to use collaborative workspaces (like those offered by Zoho, Google Apps, Clearspace, Traction Teampage, Atlassian Confluence, Onesite, Socialtext, Central Desktop, [...]
Posted in 37signals, Enterprise 2.0, Leap, Pageflakes, Ruby on Rails, SaaS, Web 2.0, blogs, folksonomy, helpdesk, smart folder, tags, zendesk on Wednesday, 9 July 2008, 3:30 pm | No Comments »
Zendesk gets it.
They have drunk the 37signals Kool Aid and are now serving up a monthly online subscription-based help desk ticketing system which
is elegant and simple in design
is well-thought-out, with battle-tested features
has key Web 2.0 elements “baked in” that make for “joy of use” and increase efficiency (e.g., tags, smart folders, RSS, built in [...]
Posted in Amazon, Nike, Puma, Ryz, Vanns, Web 2.0, adidas, crowd sourcing, ecommerce, film festival, open sourcing, threadless, wisdom of crowds on Sunday, 6 July 2008, 8:32 am | No Comments »
Ryz, the Portland-based community sourcing Web 2.0 sneaker eCommerce site that I’ve written about before is live in Beta! At least 3 cool designs are available for purchase. These sneaker designs were chosen as winning designs from amongst hundreds submitted by the masses. Going forward, the masses get to vote on the designs. And the [...]
Posted in Korea, Web 2.0, article, blogs, citizen journalism on Tuesday, 17 June 2008, 2:53 pm | No Comments »
Check out this interesting article in today’s International Herald Tribune, on how a protest (against import to South Korea of perceived un-safe U.S. beef) initially ignored by traditional media, snowballed after being covered by citizen journalists on Web 2.0 sites.
This article dovetails with another article on Wired (“Media Death March: Newspaper Ads Tumble” 
reporting that [...]
Posted in CNN, Chengdu, China, Sichuan, Web 2.0, citizen journalism, crowd sourcing, earthquake, user-generated content on Wednesday, 4 June 2008, 10:32 am | No Comments »
The Barking at the Sun/蜀犬吠日 blog (”Blogging from China, Sichuan, Chengdu. 中国. 四川. 成都” has a good post in English by Mark Hiew on “Big media, citizen journalists, and the May 12th earthquake”. Web 2.0 aiding coverage of this terrible tragedy.
Posted in Acrobat, Adobe, Buzzword, Web 2.0, acrobat.com, collaborative software, office suite, online office apps on Tuesday, 3 June 2008, 9:29 am | No Comments »
Adobe has taken it’s innovative (but isolated) Flash-based word processor, called Buzzword, and bundled it into their own on-line suite of office apps. And the resulting is… less than stellar (according to Ars Techica’s convincing initial review of the suite, Acrobat.com.)
Posted in Nicholas Carr, Web 2.0, cloud computing on Tuesday, 27 May 2008, 4:33 pm | 1 Comment »
The International Herald Tribune had an article on cloud computing yesterday. Not a bad popular account of the topic, but not particularly comprehensive or insightful. For example, while it cites Nicolas Carr’s “Big Switch,” its not a particularly good summary, omitting the negative consequences of the cloud that Carr spends a lot of time on [...]
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