I had the occasion to work with Biz Stone, one of the founders Twitter yesterday and it is always fascinating to meet the people behind new innovations and hear the stories. The reason for this meeting was Biz coming to speak to 20 CIO’s from large companies at the behest of [...]
Leaders, by the definition of the word, should be out in front of their charges guiding them as to the next move to make, or the next place to go. But what happens when leaders fail to lead? What happens when they choose to not even take a stand on [...]
I have been talking about the concept behind this site for some time. Those of us the stare at the future have long known that we would one day have a rating site of individuals that carries some weight. I am not sure the Honestly.com will be the winner, but [...]
One of the comments I hear over and over when giving presentations is that people know they should invest more time in learning about new technology tools, and simply have not done it. They shake their head in resignation as if I will somehow make them feel better – or [...]
In order to fully understand this post, you will need to watch a few examples of videos that are either parodies, or just idea replications. For example, this Muppets video parody of Old Spice Guy (http://bit.ly/bkC4UK) […]
This past week brought us two tragic stories of young people that killed themselves because their privacy was invaded and made public on the Web using social tools. This caused USA Today to run a front-page article in whether social technologies are ultimately good or bad for us. […]
If you don’t read the TechCrunch blog, this post will not mean much to you. TechCrunch is the single best source of technology news that I know of – especially is you want to keep up on new Web companies and hot start-ups. Seriously, if you are not familiar with [...]
In about ten years, we will be able to look back and judge the impact on the human race of technology innovations like ecommerce and social technologies. I am intrigued to compare them only because they are labeled Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 so it begs making a prediction as [...]
Continuing to riff off of interesting TED videos – I present this one from Chris Anderson of Wired Magazine fame. By the way, I download TED videos to my iPhone and listen to them while I mow the lawn every weekend. Multitasking is my thing… […]
My last headline seemed to irk a few people who are having a hard time believing that hand-to-hand selling might die out. Maybe it is not dying as much as mutating into something very different. What started as a specialized skill in arm twisting and influencing, is now going to [...]