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Date Archives → June 2005
Another interesting perspective on Social Networking
I talked about the topic of Social networking on June 4. David Batstone provides an interesting perspective on this topic on his blog today (link: I don’t want to be your friend-ster) David explains why it’s hard to be “linkedin” to every friend. It is a delicate balance who you get “linkedin” to. If you… Continue reading
SDForum Visionary Awards – What an evening!
Yesterday I attended the SDForum Visionary Awards celebration (happens every year) Every time I attend this event, I come back charged up and inspired. The event was held at the home of Heidi Roizen and David Mohler. This year’s award recipients were: 1. Carol Bartz, CEO of Autodesk (intro: Scott McNealy) 2. Bill Draper, Partner… Continue reading
The power of "Us"
Collaborating with your users to create powerful offers
This week’s feature article in Business Week is titled “The Power of Us” and talks about how companies are collaborating with users to create more powerful offers. When users become your partners, the world is your R&D unit. Of the example companies that are covered in the article is Skype. Skype lets users make use… Continue reading
Google Adsense under fire now??
Joe Wikert blogs about why google adsense does not make any sense. This follows a story last month about a secret army of clickers trying to fool google adsense program. Interesting articles – both of them. Google Adsense is probably one of the most popular of google offerings (apart from search) and now it’s under… Continue reading
Quotes worth recording – Mahatma Gandhi
Big or small – It all depends!
I have learnt so much from Seth that it’s sometimes scary to disagree with him. Seth posted two great articles in the last two days on his blog. Here they are: 1. 6/5/05 – Small is the new big 2. 6/6/05 – more on small There was a lot of great insight there however, while… Continue reading
Quotes worth recording – Dr. Maya Angelou
Picked this up from Harry Beckwith‘s newsletter. Amazing insight that might help you build lasting relationships. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel” – Dr. Maya Angelou Please sign up for my newsletter here:
Open Innovation – Citizen Journalism on TV
People are innovating like crazy and it’s getting exciting everyday. I saw this great piece about a SF based startup Current taking citizen journalism to TV (link: San Francisco Chronicle) this august. Citizen journalism is the new wave where the general public participate in creating news and also participate in selecting the news (by voting)… Continue reading