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Are social networks the next-gen commerce, CRM hubs?

Are social networks the next-gen commerce, CRM hubs?There's some related academic research on social commerceSeehttp://www.marketingpower.com/AboutAMA/Documents/JMR_Forthcoming/Deriving_Value_from_Social.pdfAcademic article forthcoming at the Journal of Marketing Research by Andrew Stephen (Columbia Business School, now INSEAD) and Olivier Toubia Columbia Business School.Disclosure: I'm Andrew Stephen. This research that we have done might be interesting to...

Tags: Marketing research, network, Columbia Business School, social networking, CRM

Discussion threads 2009-04-27

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Welcome new ZDNet Digital Cameras & Camcorders blogger, Rachel King

I’d like you all to give a warm welcome to ZDNet’s new Reviews blogger, Rachel King. She’ll be joining me here on the Digital Cameras & Camcorders blog, which (as you'll notice from the new name) we're expanding to include regular coverage of digital camcorders and software. ...

Tags: Camcorder, Digital Camera, Camera, Blogger, Rachel King, Blogging, Internet, Janice Chen

Blog posts 2009-05-18

How to make Government 2.0 a reality

Today was the final day of the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.  This morning's mixed bag of keynotes included a fireside talk with the founders of Threadless.com and a great demo of chartbeat, a new real-time website monitoring tool. After the keynotes, I decided to let...

Tags: Web, Agency, Tool, Government, Web 2.0, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Vertical Industries, Internet, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-04-03

Is the U.S. a broadband leader or laggard?

Back when President Obama was still the President-elect, he made a bold statement about his disappointment with the adoption of broadband in the United States. His quote, to be exact, was: “It is unacceptable that the United States ranks 15th in the world in broadband adoption” But...

Tags: U.S., Leader, Broadband, NYT, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-02-23

Julius Genachowski & The FCC: A Failure to Communicate?

So Julius Genachowski is to be Barack Obama's choice to head the Federal Communications Commission. Genachowski and president-elect Obama were classmates at the Harvard Law School. And Obama was his boss back then, too, at the Harvard Law Review. GigaOm...

Tags: FCC, Barack Obama, Broadband, Ticketmaster Corp., Interactive Corp., Wireless, Federal Government, Internet, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Wireless And Mobility, Government, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-01-13

'Leading with Kindness'

There is an interesting book and associated US public television series I'm intrigued by entitled 'Leading with Kindness: How good people consistently get better results' The two authors are William F. Baker, Ph.D., (Chief Executive Officer of Educational Broadcasting Corp...

Tags: Team, Doll, Gore, Team Management, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-12-10

China cuts off iTunes, likely over 'Songs of Tibet'

China cuts off iTunes, likely over 'Songs of Tibet'Learn from M$, Google and YahooThey cooperated with the local bully, they were allowed to run business over there. Don't p*ss of their government, that's the key in China. Yahoo went so far they handed in evidence to China government to help...

Tags: Tibetan family, Han, census, Apple iTunes

Discussion threads 2008-08-22

Wordcamp 2008

In the quiet flats of University of California San Francisco Mission Bay campus, bloggers, thinkers, journalists, developers, and inventors melt together for a full day of lectures and learning. The goal of Wordcamp 2008 is to figure out the future of publishing on the web. ...

Tags: Open Source, Blog, Wordpress, Plug-in, Automattic, Wordcamp, Mullenweg 3:00, BuddyPress, Discovery Channel, Al Upton, ChickSpeak, ScholarPress, Netconcepts, Post Title, Akismet, Virality, Diso, Compliment Spam, Monotone, Prologue, GigaOm Daily, Gigalogue, Comments Screen, Blogging, Internet, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-16

Facebook is the new Google as exodus of top xooglers continues

The latest high-level executive to leave Google for Facebook is Elliott Schrage, who headed the corporate communications team. When the top person responsible for Google's messaging across all products and for its international policy leaves this points to a serious change within the company. Facebook has been...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Public Relations, Business Ethics, Recruitment & Selection, Team Management, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Leadership, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-05-07

RED HERRING EAST 2007: Plated Palms

Paper plates are decidedly not sexy, or so I thought until I met Michael Dwork at the Red Herring East 2007 conference. Michael is CEO of VerTerra, a company that uses dried, organically-grown palm tree leaves from India to produce amazing disposable dishes. He graduated in 2007 from the Columbia...

Tags: Red Herring East 2007, Interview

Blog posts 2007-07-01

George Washington University Law School: Making a Case for Messaging Services

Established in 1865, the George Washington University Law School is the oldest law school in the District of Columbia, and one of the largest in the country. George Washington Law School had been using a webmail-based email system running on Windows for several years when, in 2001, the supplier decided...

Tags: George Washington University Law School, Messaging, Messaging Service, Mirapoint Inc., E-mail, Online Communications

Case studies 2007-07-01

Google's risky advertising business

Michael Arrington continues to be quite displeased with the PayPerPost business model."How much is your soul worth" he asks, in TechCrunch's second "Soulless" PayPerPost story.BUT, are media souls really in danger of being compromised merely because of one new advertorial entrant into the publishing market?TechCrunch has reassuringly undescored that IT "does not accept...

Tags: AdSense, Advertising, AdWords, Google, Google Ads

Blog posts 2007-05-28

Six dang good reasons why you (probably) hate your cell phone provider

In the latest issue of Information Week, just out today, Elena Malykhina lists six reasons why you may hate your cellphone service.Ive been going down the list, and I gotta tellya: Elena is spot on with each reason.Lets take it from the top:Disabled features. Elena notes that Columbia University...

Tags: Cellular phones, Wi-Fi, T-Mobile, cell, phone, cell phone

Blog posts 2007-05-14

Eben Moglen leaving Free Software Foundation

Eben Moglen leaving Free Software FoundationKudos to Mr. MoglenI have had the good fortune to know the good Mr. Moglen for a number of years. He's always impressed me as careful, thoughtful and thorough in the things he's done.As the Software Freedom Law Center ramps up and his duties...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services, Moglen, Stallman, Free Software Foundation, software

Discussion threads 2007-04-25

How journalism education should change

Prints dead; newspapers are toast; Dave Winer has some good suggestions to revamp journalism education and bloggers cant get enough of the San Francisco Chronicles woes. Its a debate--as someone who could be considered professional trained journalist--that frankly tires me out. ...

Tags: Blogging, Columbia, journalism education

Blog posts 2007-03-25

Video on stage: Bolt, NBBC, Network2 in NYC

TV killed the video star? Or vice versa?Veteran and aspiring online video stars met-up last night in New York City’s Columbia University to demo and promo their video plays before an enthusiastic audience of about 150 members of the NY Video 2.0 Group.Although bitter cold outside, hot ideas were bubbling...

Tags: Advertising, Amateur Content, Business Models, Content, Copyright, Culture, Donna Bogatin, Google, Jeff Pulver, Marketing, Media, Metrics, MySpace, NBBC, NBC Universal Inc., Network2, ROI, Self-Promotion, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Web, Television, TV, User-Generated Content, VC, Venture Capital, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube, YouTube Inc.

Blog posts 2007-01-26

Lessons from the techology blind

Lessons from the techology blindWhat did you expect?They're politicians. All they have to offer are half-understood promises, hot air and sound of their own voice. I suspect most of them do not understand or care about the impact of their [i]policies[/i] so why should they care about the impact of...

Tags: Gender and diversity, rant, women, Internet

Discussion threads 2006-12-08

Online video game: 'technically illegal' musical chairs

Fair or not fair, safe or not safe? The “fair use,” “safe harbor,” online video game is becoming a high-stakes musical chairs gamble. Content owners are circling for position; Online video elimination is the threat.  Google CEO Eric Schmidt said at the Search Engine Strategies conference last August, “I've learned...

Tags: Google Inc., online video, video

Blog posts 2006-10-29

Google 'safe harbor': 'Nice' way to do business?

“Does YouTube Really Have Legal Problems?”Tim Wu, professor at Columbia Law School, takes exception with “part-time copyright theorist Mark Cuban”:When Google bought YouTube, the conventional wisdom—expressed in op-eds, newspaper articles, and scary editorial cartoons—was that they'd also bought themselves a whole heap of copyright trouble. The New York Times used...

Tags: YouTube Inc., YouTube

Blog posts 2006-10-27

Tech camp morphs into tech high

With $1.2 million in seed money from New York state and the New Technology Foundation, Tech Valley Summer Camp is soon to be Tech Valley High, reports The Times-Union. Next spring, 30 eighth graders will attend a new public school that will focus on math, science and technology. For...

Tags: Rensselaer, Tech

Blog posts 2006-08-14