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Graham on Web 2.0 investing: VCs are no angels

Paul Graham, YCombinator, has spoken; in a TechCrunch Q & A.Of particular note is Graham’s immediate reaction to the posting of the interview; In a comment at the post, Graham noted what he considers an “inaccuracy” with the TechCrunch headline:Though the intro calls me a VC, that’s not really accurate....

Tags: business model, Donna Bogatin, Graham&rsquo, s, Kiko, Paul Graham, TechCrunch, Web, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2006-09-03

Paul Graham on open source and blogging

Paul Graham on open source and bloggingHuh?"Blogs and open source software are made by people working at home."I see many blogs right here on ZDNet that, I don't think, are made by people working at home. And I thought many large companies, such as IBM, were employing open-source developers. We're...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, open source, Paul Graham, blogging

Discussion threads 2005-08-03

Paul Graham on open source and blogging

In his keynote at the Tuesday night "extravaganza" at OSCON, Paul Graham made three points: People work harder on things they like The standard office is unproductive Bottom-up works better than top-down I...

Tags: open source

Blog posts 2005-08-02

Additional Resources

CRM Association-Netherlands Rocks Het Huis!

I'm in love with Amsterdam....no wait, I love it but I'm not in love....no, hold on, I like it a lot, but I'm not in love, nor do I love it. The Theory.... Interestingly enough (to me at least and who else am I really writing this for...

Tags: Car, Amsterdam, Conference, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-11-16

Deconstructing United Airlines: Where Customers are Transactions

United Airlines: Customers are Merely Transactions If you're a loyalty marketer and look at my United profile, you find something that would make you 4.5 on a scale of 5.0 when it comes to warm and fuzzy.   You'd see hundreds of thousands of United Airlines frequent flier FF miles;...

Tags: Customers Ltd., Mile, Customer, United Corp., United Airlines, Corporate Communications, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Marketing, Human Resources, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-08-20

Time to Put A Stake in The Ground on Social CRM

Time to Put A Stake in The Ground on Social CRMThe clarion call it is!Paul, this certainly is the clarion call for action!Am glad you picked up the threads of this fight a couple of weeks back & hope that you have put an end to the bickering! :)I am...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise software, Social CRM

Discussion threads 2009-07-06

Time to Put A Stake in The Ground on Social CRM

The debate and discussion about what defines Social CRM a.k.a. CRM 2.0 vs. its traditional parent has been going on for about 2 years pretty regularly and started, according to thought leader Graham Hill almost a decade before that. Personally, I'm done defining it and am moving...

Tags: Customer, Business, Tool, CRM, Social CRM, SCRM Business Strategy, Co-creation, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-07-06

Sword Ciboodle - Yes, That's Their Real Name

I'm in Chicago, which outside of New York (once a New Yorker, always one), is my favorite U.S. city. I lived here for 22 years more or less and when I come here I feel totally at home.  I do. Its that feeling that I know you know - you're...

Tags: U.S., Customer Service, Principal, Customer, Health Care, CRM, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Vertical Industries, Advertising & Promotion, Benefits, Healthcare, Product Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Human Resources, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-03-19

News to know: Palm; Google; Apple; Yahoo's Bartz; Hacking Safari

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Palm: Demand tanks ahead of Pre launch; Pre needs to save the day Andrew Nusca: Google CEO Schmidt: China 'obvious prize,' Twitter 'poor...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Macintosh, Hacking, Apple Intel Mac Mini, Yahoo! Inc., Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Desktops, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-03-04

The Crunchies 2009

The Oscars of Tech. That's how I explain it to my mother. 7:23 p.m. Arrived just a little late, but got great seats. Sitting next to MC Hammer: 7:42 p.m. Om Malik...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Om Malik, Mobile, Amazon Web Services, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-01-09

Transcript: PDC08 Keynote â€" Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson

Todd Bishop, TechFlash; Ed Bott, ZDNet;  Kip Kniskern, Liveside; Rafael Rivera, Within Windows; Paul Thurrott, Windows Supersite; and Tom Warren, Neowin; and Long Zheng, Istartedsomething â€" and yours truly--did a group blog of the first PDC keynote. Here's the live blog transcript (speakers: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava,...

Tags: Keynote, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Liveside, Neowin.net, Tom Riley, Signal God, Paul, MJ, Azure, Z, Red Dog, Download Link, Saruhan, Bluehoo, MOS, SSDS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-10-27

We know SOA depends on cultural shifts, but -- like the weather -- we still don't do much about it

Recent observations on SearchSOA.com on lack of meaningful SOA adoption suggest that the technologies and techniques have amounted to but a mere improvement on EAI. Some conveniently calling it EAI 2.0, but admit the effects are not yet wide nor deep. We have yet to see SOA...

Tags: Information Technology, SOA, End-game, Sides, Profits, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-03-27

Coming Soon: Microsoft 2.0 the book

After years of insisting I had no interest in writing a book, I've finally taken the plunge. I am writing a book about -- you guessed it -- Microsoft. It will be published in the Spring of 2008 by John Wiley & Sons. The title: Microsoft 2.0:...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Web 2.0, Business Structures, Blogging, Construction, Internet, Finance, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-09-26

OpenOffice worm Badbunny hops across operating systems

OpenOffice worm Badbunny hops across operating systemsNow that's sharing without bordersprobably more love to come, just not as distributable once two of the three fix it so that it can't happen.Oh well, at least the perp who made this isn't working on cancer curing research or international banking, . ....

Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, OPEN SOURCE, SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., Badbunny, worm, OpenOffice, OpenOffice worm, operating system

Discussion threads 2007-06-11

Web 2.0 ages: Poor old media?

(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction! The Rolling Stones sang it, and Rolling Stone is feeling it, from the blogosphere!Rolling Stone magazine, once a must read for all music and pop-culture nuts is going to establish a social network, via GigaOm. Initial Om Malik reaction: “If this means their...

Tags: User-Generated Content, Web 2.0, Social Web, MySpace, Marketing

Blog posts 2007-04-13

Microsoft naysayer bandwagon gets crowded

The guest list for Microsofts alleged funeral is long. Over the weekend, blogger Paul Graham stirred up a Techmeme hornet nest when he declared Microsoft dead. Today, Goldman Sachs removed Microsoft from its "conviction list," the equivalent of a super-duper...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, Microsoft, General, Vista, Google

Blog posts 2007-04-10

Wagstaff hits a home run on "death of software"

This is a post I wish Id written. WSJ columnist Jeremy Wagstaff, writing on his loose wire blog, sums up the sturm und drang about the "death" of Microsoft recently announced by Paul Graham with an elegant and hard to argue observation. What were really talking about has less to...

Tags: Web Apps, Software, Productivity, Mobility, Blogs

Blog posts 2007-04-09

Why Google IS afraid of Microsoft, big time

Is Google celebrating the "death" of Microsoft?Paul Graham believes so, proclaiming Microsoft to be rich but dead.But are Eric Schmidt and company really “not afraid of Microsoft anymore”? Hardly. Google does indeed fear Microsoft, big time, and rightly so.Below are just a few billion dollar reasons why, in rebuttal to...

Tags: Web 2.0, Venture Capital, VC, Search Advertising, Search, ROI, Mobile, Microsoft, Metrics, Local, Google Software Applications, Google, Advertising

Blog posts 2007-04-07

Is Web 2.0 all that innovative?

Is Web 2.0 all that innovative?imagine if you will...That back in the days when pterodactyls soared above the office buildings where folks first used their mouse buttons to open web browsers and conduct business on the web, that a young man explained the ins and outs of navigating what was...

Tags: Channel management, Amazon.com Inc., Web, Peter Rip, commercial site, Web 2.0

Discussion threads 2007-03-20

News to know: Photoshop's HD support; DST costs; Vista hands on #10

Notable headlines: David Berlind: Will Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child be a problem for Microsoft? Image Gallery right.Photoshop gets HD Photo support. Adobe adds new Photoshop flavor with CS3.Make: 5.5g iPods can now run Linux.Larry Dignan: What does Daylight Saving Time cost IT? DST blog focus. Computerworld: With DST nigh,...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-03-08