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On a web conference today, I caught a glimpse of someone’s inbox.
Protip: Close your email and IM if you’re presenting something. Unless of course, you want me to see your email folders, including the ones where you store “house” email.
But I digress. The person’s inbox had probably 40 folders, [...]
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I’m convinced that innovation on the consumer side of the web is great for enterprise software.
I’m similarly convinced that innovation on the consumer side of the web is terrible for enterprise software.
Reading Marc Benioff’s post “The Facebook Imperative” on TechCrunch last week reminded me of these mutually-exclusive conclusions.
On the [...]
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Last week’s kerfuffle about foursquare and how it exposes you to would-be burglars was hilarious to me.
More accurately, it’s Twitter that poses the risk, which isn’t a new problem. Foursquare encourages people to socialize their game-playing by adding friends from Facebook, Twitter and GMail. As with any [...]
What makes one Web applications “Software as a Service” (SaaS) and another a “plain old Web application” (POWA)? Or is there no such distinction?
Wouldn’t it be convenient if we had an answer that has some functional relevance? Here are the different axis on which I (unsuccessfully) tried to project Web applications to sort them between [...]
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I’ve been thinking about comments lately, mostly because several interesting points have converged to draw my attention.
First, Cult of Mac pointed out that John Gruber’s Daring Fireball will now have comments, via another site, i.e. DaringFireballWithComments.net.
Next, Engadget turned off their comments because the had “really gotten out [...]
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As with last week, the geo news has been hot and heavy again this week, but before I get to the tidbits I’ve found interesting, let’s talk about why geo matters or doesn’t.
Unlike social, you shouldn’t be guilted into geo. Not that you were guilted into joining [...]
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As with last week, the geo news has been hot and heavy again this week, but before I get to the tidbits I’ve found interesting, let’s talk about why geo matters or doesn’t.
Unlike social, you shouldn’t be guilted into geo. Not that you were guilted into joining [...]
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If you read here, you know I love data and data visualizations.
So, you won’t be surprised to hear this post from Hot Hardware immediately intrigued me: “TomTom’s IQ Routes Prove Americans Aren’t Speed Demons”.
Aside from the blatant advertising, the conclusions, initially published by Tele Atlas, TomTom’s map business unit, [...]
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Earlier in the week, I posted about Next Jump and their use of data and algorithms to target offers at consumers who are most likely to buy.
Their results are impressive, 60% click-through on offers with a phenomenal 11% rate converting browsers to buyers. Apparently, 5% click-through with [...]
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Wow, geo is a hot topic lately, with coverage, announcements and features dropping every day.
Here’s a summary of what I’ve seen lately that caught my interest:
Gowalla appears to be preparing an API.
MyTown has 500,000 users, even though no one talks about it.
Yelp is adding location checkins to [...]