Idea Vampires
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) […]
Haunted by Your Past – or Present?
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. […]
TechCrunch Sells Out?
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 [...]
Social Tech Crushes eCommerce in Relative Value
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 [...]
Humanity and eCrowd Dynamics
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… […]
The Birth of Product Evangelism
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 [...]
The Death of Sales
I speak and do workshops on how social technologies are impacting the field of sales quite a bit these days. It is very interesting to me to observe how the field of selling is changing – the big picture. Before making any comment about how salespeople and organizations need to [...]
Game Theory and Real Life
The following video from TED.com is the second really good video I have seen on the concept of merging game theory with the real world - link - I have also read a few science fiction novels where there is a heavy game in the real world component, for example, [...]
The Artist, the Geek, and the Business Expert
I was watching this TED video on data visualization, check it out. Then I was noticing on Twitter today that every tenth tweet had a link to an infographic and it got me thinking about a visual challenge I deal with when consulting. […]
Facebook Places
My son reminded me today that I had just told him a month ago that it was just a matter of time until Facebook bought Foursquare, or just copied their location based model. It was just too obvious. Facebook with their huge volume of users would be too interested in [...]