Google Music beats Amazon Cloud Player hands down from my perspective. . . . → Read More: Google Music vs. Amazon Cloud Player
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I am fed up. I can’t take it anymore. The time is here for PC manufacturers to get their act together and make PCs and Laptops do what everyone wants: boot up and turn off instantly. No wonder so many people are flocking to tablets – I spent 2 hours last night going through windows updates – with one taking many hours longer because it continued to fail for some reason. My Vista Ultimate PC takes about 15-20 minutes to fully boot up now. I know my way around computers and can’t identify what problem is causing the delays and no new programs were installed to cause it… it just seems to happen! In a world where communication expectations take place in seconds rather than minutes there is nothing more frustrating than dealing with the delays that PCs create. One reason I am excited about the growth in Cloud technology is that it will allow us to shed the burden of our home PCs and operate in a reliable and consistent basis whatever form-factor we decide to utilize. The “booting” process will be reduced to connecting to the internet like it works with tablets and smartphones right now. The time is now to make whatever . . . → Read More: It is Time PCs Became Like Tablets If you are curious at all about the “Buzzgraph” of the recent death of Bin Laden, here is a great snapshot from the Sysomos MAP tool: Buzzgraph of the conversation surrounding Bin Laden's . . . → Read More: Death of Bin Laden – the Buzzgraph  I have been thinking a lot lately about e-commerce and the future of commerce and technology. Things are fundamentally changing in a massive platform transition. Anyone who hasn’t been under a rock for the past few years has been deluged with the information, first, about smartphones with better processing power than PCs from just a few years earlier, and most recently, the Tablet rush for the iPads and Android platform systems. In summary, everyone who doesn’t own a Tablet wants one and anyone who regularly uses Facebook, Twitter, or other social platforms, most certainly wants a smartphone. This is change that has proven disruptive in the way people live their lives. They now “live” in a whole new technology ecosystem. The New Wave – iPad I want to emphasize that point, it is not just a new technology, it is literally a new “activity” people engage in and with the new technologies, an activity they can engage in simultaneously with their other activities. That is precisely why e-commerce will no longer survive in its current form or be a solution that stands on its own. I have run several WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla! platforms and am quite intimate with the workings of web . . . → Read More: E-Commerce – Change is Here  Quora versus Focus from Compete.com . . . → Read More: Focus.com vs. Quora Using social media in a consumer strategy can be a precarious thing. After all, only 56% of Fortune 500 companies even have a Facebook presence for a reason. The reason is fear of a misstep or error that could injure the brand by profit or reputation. I had the displeasure of being a participant in one such misstep. Groupon is a leading marketing/social media engine for consumers to get discounts based on participant volume. It really is a brilliant idea. The program is arranged by geography and daily a deal is issued to all “members” of the participant list. Once a critical mass is reached whereby a minimum number of consumers sign up for the discount, everyone gets the “deal”. With Christmas just around the corner, I received a Groupon discount deal for the online retailer, Red Envelope, for 50% off of $30 worth of purchase. Basically, a $15 discount. I browsed over to the site and saw some things that I would be interested in, so I went ahead and signed up for the deal. Everything seemed kosher at this point. What I ended up with was possibly a $5 total discount and a slighted feeling that other retailers can hopefully learn from. The . . . → Read More: Social Media – Done Wrong Just installed Drupal 7.0 RC1 and playing around with it to see how it stacks up with previous releases. . . . → Read More: Drupal 7.0 RC1 is out! The FTC released guidance today in testimony to the Congressional Commerce Committee regarding the monitoring and targeting of marketing and advertising to web denizens based on their “behaviors” . . . → Read More: FTC – “Do Not Track” – Is It 5 Years Too Late?  What a wonderful thing. The power that comes with a little bit of integration of code that allows a service to provide all the information it wants to third parties to leverage and utilize to their own ends. 2375! That is the number of API’s listed in the API Directory on the programmable web – that is insane! All the information that can be gathered, sliced-and-diced, and re-purposed in so many ways is pretty astounding. Luckily, tools, plugins, integrations, modules, etc… quickly take advantage of the API options as they come available. Just yesterday, I ran into Tattler – a Drupal implementation of social media monitoring. Now, as you may have noticed if you have loooked around my site at all; I focus a lot on social media and its various tools. Imagine my surprise when I ran across Tattler. So I installed it immediately on my test server and went to work. During the install, you have to acquire a number of API keys like Calais (awesome – read up on it here: http://www.lullabot.com/articles/introduction-calais from an amazing Drupal outfit called Lullabot), Flickr, Twitter, Technorati, etc… but after I was done, VOILA!, immediate results. One of the very first results I got was the . . . → Read More: Magic API Yesterday I was working on some of my test sites and playing around with Joomla!, Drupal, and CivicCRM and I started to think about the vast communities that are starting to develop online as more and more people grow up with technology and participate with their particular niche or interest. The big players are out there like Facebook and Twitter for standard friend and news monitoring, but as advertising and marketing seem to encroach more and more on personal space, I think there will sometime soon (call it a couple years), be a time where people tire of sharing all of their personal information, wants, and desires. With anonymity essentially gone, people will desire joining and participating in groups that are more “home grown” in nature and represent a forum that they don’t feel they have to be fully exposed in. Another twist and possibly a much better scenario is that people can have their anonymity, but due to the nature of the users, the advertisers can still get the exact targeting they need. This is already starting to happen. As an example, take a recent blog my wife joined. We are getting ready to have our first baby (Yeah!) and she . . . → Read More: Online Privacy resurgent? |
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