I am tardy in responding to a challenge from Luis Suarez to reveal my “media consumption diet,” which is a popular meme started by Jeremiah Owyang that is circling the internets right now.  Guess I’ve been too busy consuming media this week to do much blogging but here goes:
The Web.  My first and last activity […]

Let’s be honest for a moment: FAST is not the first company you think about when you think of search. If you’re like me, four days ago, you probably thought the whole competitive landscape for search technology had already been definitively settled. Google won. Game. Set. Match.
But, like me, you’d be wrong. The FASTForward Conference […]

For the past year and a half or so Connectbeam has been wandering in the wilderness telling anyone who will listen that social bookmarking was not simply popular applications like del.icio.us or Furl that allow web addicts to mark and share their favorite links online but an enterprise tool with real potential to help companies […]

One of those debates that seems to resurface every few weeks among the Enterprise Irregulars is whether LinkedIn is the most valuable social networking tool since e-mail or just an online cheat sheet for pushy recruiters and annoying sales reps trying to angle their way into a big score. 
The trigger for today’s EI exchange was Michael Copeland’s puff piece from Business 2.0 which portrayed LinkedIn as A MySpace […]

Among the toughest tasks that marketers face daily is tracking what is being said about their company or its brands in the media, identifying which of the external voices are most influential and are having the most impact–positively or negatively–and then devising a strategy and specific tactics to influence the influencers. 
None of the existing tools for performing these tasks has proven adequate to the challenge of social media […]

You know a company is having dark thoughts about its own mortality when it starts sticking the word “Live” in front of all its new products.  Such has to be the case with Microsoft which released its Live Search from beta today and launched Live.com in 47 markets worldwide.  The company also launched Live Local Search in the U.K. and […]

In the high lonesome county in West Virginia where I grew up in the 50s and early 60s, the arrival by mail of the Sears-Roebuck catalog always made for an exciting day.  The “wish book,” as everybody called it, arrived in big fat Fall and Spring editions as well as the always over-stimulating Christmas version.  For those of us who lived 15-20 […]

Those brilliant young men at System One are working on a terrific new application that allows you to find photographs and other images by drawing a rough sketch onscreen of what you’re looking for or uploading a similar image.  Finding images now is  a textual process (by keywords, tags, etc.) but retrievr uses image retrieval algorithms to search […]

As the three or four hundred people who are following closely the Enterprise 2.0 - Wikipedia smackdown probably know, Ross Mayfield has made a heroic effort to resurrect the deleted E2.0 entry (and, by the way, how can we take seriously a Wikipedia cop who doesn’t know the difference between “it’s” and “its?).  Ross has […]

Like many bloggers, I game the social bookmarking sites like Digg and Reddit by posting my own stories with provocative headlines.  Slow afternoon; slap together something and call it Web 2.0 Is So Totally Over and you’ll pick up an extra 2,000 hits over next 30 minutes or so. 
This is an ultimately self-defeating exercise–most of the people who click […]