Old favorites die hard. The stink around Apple’s change to the Itunes logo is typical of the “what was wrong with the old one” attitude that can be so pervasive even amongst the earliest of adopters — technology junkies. We are seeing this already in a number of web design layouts (see www.weather.com) and written […]
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Google Buzz is an Outlook/Exchange/Azure killer
Google Apps has seen good but not crazy growth in the enterprise because as with most early products, its feature set is good but not great as compared to the incumbent Microsoft suite. Many of us have been willing to bite the feature bullet to move the care and feeding of Outlook and Exchange to […]
Continue Reading...Freemium Model at a Gas Station
Who would have thought the freemium model would have hit the gas station business, but I saw it today driving back from a great team bonding trip white water rafting in Maine. As I approached the gas station, I noticed that there was no credit card facility at the pump. Nor did they tell me […]
Continue Reading...Awesome — OTA for Google contacts and calendar and the Iphone is awesome
I have been a big fan of Google’s apps strategy and have been a big proponent of google docs, having all of the company on it with our own domain for over a year. But I have been so frustrated with the lack of seamless contact integration with my phones — blackberry or iphone. 3 […]
Continue Reading...Jobs is Nobody’s Fool
Everyone’s talking about the Steve Jobs’s publicized call to end DRM and then boom — He gets EMI to drop their rights. Brilliant!! What nobody is talking about is the timing of his call. Note that he has over 75% of the MP3 player market using a proprietary file format in a market where 90% […]
Continue Reading...A Web 2.0 product with the right demo
There is some buzz around a new personal producitivity app called iscrybe for its Web 2.0 look and feel and its ability to work offline. But when I look at the blog postings on the product, I am most struck by the comments on the video. First, they did a Youtube video which enables rapid […]
Continue Reading...Improving the predictive accuracy of commercial testing
There is an interesting blog written yesterday http://business2.blogs.com/business2blog/ regarding possible subtexts to the Google purchase of YouTube. They suggest that Google is coming out with ways to help advertisers determine in which commercials will succeed and fail through online testing via something like YouTube. There is no question that the advertising needs to improve its […]
Continue Reading...Ease of Use and Integration Wins Again — YouTube
With all of the video sites out there, why did YouTube win? Fred Wilson does a great job of pointing out that ease of use and integration of YouTube into the larger ecosystem was the key. Its kind of a version of the saying “Good Marketing beats Better Technology” every day of the week. Ease […]
Continue Reading...Digital Native or Digital Immigrant
At the Longworth conference Bill Raduschel opined on the Digital Native/Digital Immigrant divide that has been around since Marc Prensky penned his article in 2001. What fascinates me is while the education world has discussed this topic considerably, my search on Google suggests that the technology world has been far quieter. Maybe I am dead […]
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