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Lawrence Lessig and free media

Lawrence Lessig and free mediaRTF*[i]In the creative business, free samples are a standard approach for those without resources or a contract. They sometimes work by fluke. The sure and solid path to prominence costs a lot of money. To be repaid by sales of performance.[/i]For crying out [b]loud[/b], would you...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Mercedes Lackey, prominence, Baen Books

Discussion threads 2006-06-02

Influence: It's what moves networked markets

Influence: It's what moves networked marketsProminenceEntertainment is an alternative to trust as a reason for giving attention, no?You wrote:"The reason a blogger with a lot of traffic can have more influence on a discussion they've newly entered is that they have a foundation of trust to build on." Let's hypothesize...

Tags: Blogging, entertainment, Scoble, prominence, blogger

Discussion threads 2006-05-11

Additional Resources

Facebook unveils redesign

Facebook on Monday said that it will roll out a redesigned version of the social networking site "over the coming days." The company said the design should make it easier to share information and deliver a cleaner experience via navigation tabs and other features. Among the tweaks...

Tags: Facebook, Party App, Social Networking, Construction, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Microhoo mudslinging: Icahn says Yahoo distorts facts of offer; Microsoft agrees

The Microhoo saga gets messier by the minute and will probably get worse as we near the Aug. 1 shareholder meeting where Carl Icahn tries to boot Yahoo's board and CEO Jerry Yang. We're back to dueling letters again and the saga is very messy Techmeme. On...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Search, Yahoo! Press Release, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-14

Sue Decker's super powers

Yahoo's not-so-secret reorganization got its official nod today, with three new divisions created to centralize operations and report to Sue Decker. Yahoo's not-so-secret reorganization got its official nod today, with three new divisions created to centralize operations and report to Sue Decker. ...

Tags: Reuters, Yahoo, reorganization, management, Sue Decker

News items 2008-06-27

Is Bill Gates a secret cloud convert?

Is Bill Gates a secret cloud convert?He doesn't say use it in the cloudHe doesn't say use it in the cloud, he said it is with the Windows Live download which includes lots and lots of non-cloud based programs, windows live writer for instance.Originally the "Internet" was going to be...

Tags: Bill Gates, cloud computing, Microsoft Corp., secret cloud

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

The changing analyst landscape

The recent Institute of Industry Analyst Relations poll results produced some startling results. While the power hitters of Gartner, IDC and Forrester were well represented, it was the boutique groups that caught my attention. Redmonk, MWD and Freeform Dynamics all performed well across multiple categories, despite being minnows in the...

Tags: Analyst, Ray, Blogging, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Internet, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-06-04

Sun's continuing open source problem

Sun's continuing open source problemSun executives are fucking morons...and a scarey bunch in general. I once heard some brain dead Sun twit emotionally speak about Scott McNealy as their spiritual leader. It seems like every couple of months some "new" strategy will save them from their ultimate demise. Hey guys,...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., hardware, open source

Discussion threads 2008-05-07

Catching up: MySpace adds Karaoke; Friends Reunited drops paid access; Facebook apps create privacy scare

The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the last week… MySpace adds Karaoke. Nearly two years after Fox Interactive purchased the karaoke site kSolo.com, its feature-set has finally been integrated into MySpace. "The combination of...

Tags: Facebook, Privacy, MySpace, MySpace Karaoke, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Corporate Communications, Marketing Research, Desktops, Databases, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Hardware, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-05-05

Oil and the future of cleantech are NOT separable

Courtesy Gordon Murray & Mohr Davidow. I recently blogged about one VC's efforts in cleantech as it relates to finding renewable replacements for petrochemicals and coal-based products. That same company, Mohr Davidow, has invested in an auto design firm. Why? Because Gordon...

Tags: Oil, Duck, Clean Technology, Fossil Fuel, Jadoo, Oil Pit, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-05-04

Salesforce dumping 4,000 PCs for Macs?

Salesforce dumping 4,000 PCs for Macs?Watch what happens at......P&G, Gillette, and a hundred other organizations when someone says that a company with 4000 computers switched. That will make headlines. The "We're too big to switch; it's too complicated, we don't have the software, it's too costly" arguments will start...

Tags: Desktops, Apple Macintosh, Salesforce.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, PC

Discussion threads 2008-04-25

Siemens vs. Microsoft: Round Two

Siemens announced today two new UC-enabled Contact Center packages based on OpenScape UC Server, and a new Voice Portal solution. The products will be available June 30, 2008. The products are being driven in part by trends in the contact center and in part by trends...

Tags: Siemens AG, Siemens HiPath OpenScape, Contact Center, Microsoft Corp., UC, Call Centers, Groupware, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-04-21

Windows (in)security and open source

Windows security is a good gig. (Picture from BuyersMLS, which has many other old TV mash-ups.) McAfee Inc. is worth over $5 billion and Symantec which also does other things is worth over $14 billion. Both have risen to prominence based on proprietary models...

Tags: Open Source, Knowledge, Microsoft Windows, Security, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-04-15

39% of search engine users link search result placement to company prominence

2008 2006 2002 Agree 39% 36% 33% Neutral 42% 39% N/A Disagree 19% 25% 67% Source: iProspect by NB

Tags: Search Engine, Search Result, Search, NB

Blog posts 2008-04-11

Social networking meets old media: Maybe the ad model can work

Social networking meets old media: Maybe the ad model can work*Synergistic* BINGO!That has to be one of my all-time favorite MBA words.I work at a large interactive ad agency and over the last several weeks we've been planning out a fairly sizable online marketing plan/budget. Social networking's prominence in...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, tech world, social networking, advertisement, ad model, network

Discussion threads 2008-03-14

Flaming MacBooks, iPods back in the news

Two reports this week surfaced about fires related to a MacBook Pro and iPod. The Apple user community can only hope this is a statistical fluke. The notebook occurrence was posted on Chris Pirillo's blog. He said the report was from a reader named James Bayliss,...

Tags: Apple iPod, Apple MacBook, LG Electronics Inc., Battery, Apple Inc., Laptop Computer, James, Notebooks, Engineering, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-03-12

Yahoo launches "Buzz" - phew! not quite a Digg clone

Ignoring the question of whether Buzz, Yahoo's newly launched social news site and "meme tracker", will go any way towards turning around the company's fortunes (it won't), I'm already a fan. It's too easy to call the site a Digg-clone, but, like AOL's attempts before it, Yahoo Buzz does borrow...

Tags: Digg, Yahoo! Inc., Story, Yahoo Launch, Yahoo Buzz, E-mail, Business Structures, Engineering, Online Communications, Finance, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-02-26

How+do+you+benchmark+real-world+work%3F

How+do+you+benchmark+real-world+work%3Fagree ?You Jest I'm sure! FF3 is faster, very much so and has yet to Freeze Like IE7 which is a joke as far as browsers go!UsabilityThere are three things that would dramatically improve my real world work.The first thing is relatively small but it annoys me. It is...

Tags: Operating systems, FF3, operating system, real world

Discussion threads 2008-02-21

Sales 2.0 - Leveraging Web 2.0 to Sell

The Internet is the ultimate disruptive technology. Like telephony, radio, television, and even the printing press, the Internet is dramatically changing nearly every aspect of daily life, both inside businesses and in the daily lives of individuals. Much of this disruption has been both unplanned and unexpected, and nothing more...

Tags: Web, Sales Strategy, Web 2.0, Sales Force Management, Internet, Sales

White papers 2008-02-13

Mozilla ups unpatched Firefox flaw to 'high severity'; Preps fix

Mozilla ups unpatched Firefox flaw to 'high severity'; Preps fixIt seems you are the only one showing bias.That story was covered here http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=840 and has nothing to do with this article. Try staying on subject.Please don't......make someone have to post links to all the hundreds of ZD Net articles...

Tags: Web browsers, SECURITY, window, Microsoft Windows Vista, Mozilla Firefox, flaw, Mozilla Corp., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-01-30