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If you are looking for an interesting listen, check out the Steve Jobs interview at the 2010 D8 Conference. If you would rather watch the video, here's that version. One of the interesting things Mr. Jobs said is that this phenomena of mobile apps that has really exploded in the past three years is something new, something we haven’t seen
When it comes to certain types of software or social networking sites, I have tended to hold back and let others to be the first to jump on the bandwagon. For example, Twitter was around a year or two before I decided to sign up and see what all the fuss was about. I did the same thing with Facebook.
Socialite lets me follow both Twitter and Facebook , while I use Seesmic to follow Google Buzz , which was recently added with the release of the API. ... If there is a link that I am interested in I can either click on it to open it immediately or I can send it to Instapaper to read later.
Last month, Ning CEO Gina Bianchini was replaced by Jason Rosenthal - which made me wonder if some big changes were afoot. I guess I was right as it turns out Ning is changing their business model. Let's look at what happened and what that means to you. This letter was posted over on TechCrunch: Team, When I became CEO
This is a follow-up post to an earlier entry I wrote back in on March 21, 2010, titled Trouble with Yelp. It was about Yelp being sued for manipulating reviews and pressuring businesses into buying advertisements with them. Last week, Yelp announced some changes in its policies. The first change they made was to start showing all reviews, even those
The lawsuits, indicate that businesses who do not agree to pay Yelp to advertise on their websites have had favorable reviews removed from Yelp. If this was just one report, I would toss it off as sour grapes. However there have been a smattering of similar complaints across the country. The story is basically the same, the company in question was getting mostly good reviews on Yelp. They then get a call from Yelp offering them the opportunity to buy monthly advertisement when they decline the offer, their favorable reviews were removed or dropped off greatly.
If you are retailer and want to build your brand, social networks are where you need to be, says IDC in a new report. According to it, Web 2.0 is creating opportunities for competitive advantage with the top 10 social networks having over 1.3 billion members. Yes, there's plenty of people who live on more than one network but that's