May 16th - Relevant Links
Friday, May 16th, 2008Sharing the links for the day:
May 11th - Relevant Links
Sunday, May 11th, 2008Sharing the links for the day:
Tools: Search is Vast
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008I had the opportunity to catch up with John Price last night in Austin and he is doing some REALLY cool stuff at Vast, a focused search tool. Vast is a vertical search platform for autos, travel, and real estate, where users make decisions leveraging Vast partner websites, such as AOL, Overstock and Away.com. The site represents an interesting community tool for organizations to deliver search capabilities focused on areas of interests and providing incremental capabilities which are not core to a given community platform. Search is definitely changing - going narrow and focused, vertical.
The growing number of companies out there improving search (Xobni and Twing) marketers, small business folk and communities will clearly benefit as more and more smart folks are looking at delivering the next generation of search. What cool search tools have you found?
April 2nd - Relevant Links
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008Relevant links for April 2nd:
- How to make the least valuable customers feel like they are at top of the world
- Is Social Media The Right Place For Technology Marketing?
- Here We Go Again: Dotcom Bust 2.0?
- Privacy Policies And Search Engines
- TechCrunch50 - September 8-10th, San Francisco
- iPhone Development
- I Remember Exodus
- Apple Rumors - a lingering reality
- Why I’m switching back to XP from Mac
Relevant Links for March 21st through March 23rd
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008Relevant links for March 21st through March 23rd:
- Addiction to internet is an illness -
- How to Commit Social Media Suicide - interesting piece on execution
- Social Media Discipline - simple humor
- Blogging more or less because of Twitter? - twitter’s impact on blogging
- Precognition in Decision Making - Tom does an interesting science recap from some show on TV.
The Blue Cloud - A Sign of the times…
Friday, November 23rd, 2007IBM’s announcement of the Blue Cloud is another step in delivering on demand capabilities around infrastructure, not unlike Amazon’s AWS or Google’s applications. This change in service delivery and managing a highly available infrastructure will radically change what was typically referred to as outsourcing in the data center space to be a new thing - service-sourcing.
Do you care where the computing, storage and integration services come from? Probably not, you only care that it is available and scalable. The combined capabilities of hardware, software, services and monitoring from IBM may ultimately represent a tipping point in IT delivery and Management. A cloud deployment of shared services may deliver a new capability for B2B akin to social networking.
Think about it. You consume the same platform as your customers, suppliers, channel partners and other key business partners represents instant interoperability. With the leadership of key cloud providers soon de facto standards will emerge akin to OpenID for B2B.
The cloud platform will soon become platforms for development and provide an ecosystem for mashups and add-on apps similar to facebook applications - in fact they could BE facebook apps. Marketing campaigns will be able to quickly deployed via video, products will become mini and micro payments have the opportunity to level the playing field in the ISV landscape. Under this new paradigm all you need is a compliant cloud app which drives value and scales on demand.
It appears we are quickly approaching a model equal to social media for businesses, are you ready for social integration?
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