A journalist for an industry publication in Chile asked me some questions recently about Web 2.0 business models, when there doesn’t seem to be a lot of business actually going on. Here are some of the edited answers.
Do you think it was a bad business decision for Google to acquire YouTube, in terms of the [...]
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Journalists ask the darndest things
October 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off
Tags: 1103 · 1877 · microblogging · technology
Using Twitter at Events and Conferences
October 6th, 2009 · Comments Off
We have been experimenting with using Twitter at several of the recent Gartner events. I have the most experience with the PCC conference in London, but have also been watching what has happened at the recent CRM, Enterprise Architecture and BPM conferences.
I started to collect some of the best practices we have found to [...]
Tags: 1103 · Events · microblogging · symposium
PCC London 2009
September 20th, 2009 · Comments Off
As well as the Enterprise Architecture Summit, I had the opportunity this week to present at this year’s European Portals, Content and Collaboration Summit conference in London. This is my “home” conference, since these are the topics I normally write on and talk with clients about as pat of the collaboration and social software team. [...]
Tags: 1103 · Events · being an analyst · microblogging
Of Microblogging, Twitter and Hype Cycles
August 19th, 2009 · Comments Off
This is Hype Cycle season, which always leads to lots of comments on blogs and other social media sites. I wrote the Microblogging technology profile, and have been alternately bemused and amused about the reactions to its position this year. Talking about Twitter always generates reactions, especially on Twitter.
This year, Microblogging (which includes the Twitter [...]
Tags: 1103 · Hype Cycle · being an analyst · blogging · consumerization · microblogging
Social Software at the Japanese BI and IM conference
June 5th, 2009 · Comments Off
I wire this on my way home from 9 days in Hong Kong and Japan. It was a great trip, partly because I love traveling to Asia. It also is a chance to get exposure to some very different markets and trends than I usually deal with when talking with EMEA and North American customers. [...]
Tags: 1103 · Events · Uncategorized · blogging · collaboration · microblogging
Declaring Things Dead Is So Dead
May 7th, 2009 · Comments Off
Every couple weeks, some industry observer or blogger declares that something that most people know well is dead, and generates a lot of page hits. Whether it’s the iPhone, Microsoft, the mainframe, or Paul, this is a popular meme.
More power to them, but I find it getting kind of old. Technological stuff rarely completely disappears, [...]
Tags: 1103 · microblogging · social software
Can Facebook Out-Twitter Twitter?
April 28th, 2009 · Comments Off
It’s odd to see a powerhouse like Facebook scrambling to become more like Twitter, a relative upstart with no visible means of revenue. The reported rejected acquisition bid could play a role in a “If you can’t buy them, copy them” way. But clearly, this is what is happening.
First Facebook changed its user interface to [...]
Tags: 1103 · Facebook · consumerization · microblogging · social software
Non-Blog Post on Twitter, @aplusk, etc.
April 19th, 2009 · Comments Off
I intend to say nothing about Ashton Kutcher, Larry King, Oprah or Twitter this week. Well, almost nothing. This has already gotten too much attention.
Mosey along now; nothing to see here.
Tags: 1103 · microblogging
Twitter’s Future
April 8th, 2009 · Comments Off
Last week saw fevered speculation about an impending acquisition of Twitter by Google, and just as much fervent debunking of those rumours. I don’t pretend to have any inside information, so I won’t comment on whether this will happen or not. We don’t like commenting on rumours anyway. But I do have some ideas about [...]
Tags: 1103 · 1877 · microblogging · social software
The Social Media MacGuffin: A Volume-based Business Model for Twitter
March 27th, 2009 · Comments Off
Twitter famously has no visible means of financial support, aside from the money it has raised from venture capital firms. A viable business model for Twitter has become the elusive MacGuffin sought by many observers of social media, like the statuette in the Maltese Falcon. Fairly vague comments from Twitter co-founder Biz Stone have ignited [...]
Tags: 1103 · blogging · social software · startup