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Institutionalizing Entrepreneurship and the Education Tradeoff

By on April 11, 2011 in New business models, Technology, Transparency, Trends

Through one of my new favorite “social discovery” services LetsLunch.com, I had the pleasure of lunch with Sarah Lacy. She brought me her latest book Brilliant Crazy Cocky, a tome to the universal entrepreneurial spirit in six countries she surveyed last year. I read most of it over the weekend (and recommend it highly). One [...]

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Tiger Woods and Tipping Point Media

By on December 10, 2009 in Celebrity, Marketing, Mass Media, Social Media, Transparency

The chronicles of Tiger continue daily with the Mistress countdowns and porn star exposés that are contributing to the collapsing public opinion of a global sports icon. The financial impact hits whole industries – the PGA, Tiger’s sponsors, and the TV networks all relied on Tiger as the drawing card. This is a case of [...]

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Crowdsourcing real time traffic c/o Google Maps

By on August 25, 2009 in Transparency, Web tools

Google Maps now displays traffic on city arterials: More amazing is the crowdsourcing technique Google is using to capture congestion data: When you choose to enable Google Maps with My Location, your phone sends anonymous bits of data back to Google describing how fast you’re moving. When we combine your speed with the speed of [...]

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San Francisco & Civic Social Media

By on June 3, 2009 in Economy, Enterprise, Hyperlocal, Politics, Social Media, Social networking, Transparency, Trends, Twitter, Web tools

From Craig Newmark’s blog, Gavin Newsom is introducing social media to San Francisco civics, and creating a Zappos-like Twitter channel @SF311 to support non-emergency city nuisances like potholes and trash. RecoverySF.org is set up for citizens to discuss the local issues related to the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) passed by Congress, also known [...]

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Zappos-izing Companies

By on April 30, 2009 in Advertising, Domus Consulting Group, Facebook, Marketing, New business models, Social Media, Social networking, Transparency, Trends, Twitter, Webinars

Zappos has become iconic as THE enterprise that embraces social media – it occupies a singular position that no other company seems to be able to touch so far. And it’s surprising that we haven’t heard of any other company that hasn’t institutionalized social media as an important facet of their organization. Social media is [...]

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BreakingNYCNews.com – “Instant time” hyperlocal news

By on April 17, 2009 in Advertising, Breaking News, Domus Consulting Group, Hyperlocal, Marketing, New business models, Publishing, Real Estate, Social Media, Social networking, Transparency, Trends, Twitter, Venture Capital, Web tools

BreakingSFNews.com, BreakingLANews.com and BreakingNYCNews.com broadcast what is happening in each city in real time through a survey of local Twitter feeds and contributions from Twitterers who add tweets to the scrolling news feed using a specific #hashtag system. The Advent of the Breaking News websites We’re just beginning to see the development of “breaking news” [...]

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How Obama is Pushing Society Online

By on March 26, 2009 in Economy, Politics, Social Media, Sociology, Technology, Transparency, Trends

President Obama staged an 80-minute interactive town hall meeting this morning at 11:30 EDT. In the span of an hour or so, he received 92,000 questions online, from which 3.6 million votes were cast voting up/down those questions. Idea: his administration should create a “White House Connect” application based on a white label Google Friend [...]

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LinkedIn’s Obsession with Guarding its User Data will Alienate its User Base

By on March 25, 2009 in Social Media, Transparency

LinkedIn was never very transparent. Although they offered up a LinkedIn API to developers in June, 2007, I can’t name one developer-based LinkedIn API built application (I can name partners like NY Times), while I can point to hundreds of Facebook and Twitter apps. (Google LinkedIn API for confirmation). I’m not a developer, but I’m [...]

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Leveraging Social Media Presence for Business

By on March 25, 2009 in Economy, Marketing, New business models, Real Estate, Social Media, Transparency, Web tools

Having a social media presence attracts opportunities. Twitter in particular has introduced me to many people with common, shared business interests – they come out of the blue and we become close friends very quickly based on our business compatibility. Many “social media experts” promote consulting, or how to get rich quick schemes based on [...]

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Twitter as PR-for-Hire

By on March 24, 2009 in Advertising, Marketing, New business models, Social Media, Transparency, Twitter

Earlier this month, Jeremiah Owyang compiled a unique list of “sponsored conversations” that are taking root as the social media and advertising become intertwined. Up to now, that intersection has taken the traditional form of banner ads on blog sites. Not revolutionary. WSJ’s Technology blog reports how Disney has hired @SavvyAuntie (Melanie Notkin) to Twitter [...]

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