Technology

Web Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

Posted on 10. Mar, 2010
Categories: Social Media, Web 2.0

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Why are web statistics so misleading these days? Should you obsess over number of hits or unique visitors? In this post, I examine some of the main limitations of traditional site statistics.

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ReadWriteWeb Guest Post: Do Tech Companies Wield Too Much Power?

Posted on 06. Mar, 2010
Categories: Recession, Web 2.0

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I recently did a guest post for ReadWriteWeb, a great site full of interesting content. In it, I explore the tension between employment and technology. Is technology destroying creating more jobs than it is creating?

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Facebook, Scrabble, and the Limits of Free

Posted on 03. Mar, 2010
Categories: Social Media, Web 2.0

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Like many people (over 400 million), I’m on Facebook on a regular basis. In this short post, I wonder about what kind of “rights” users have when they pay zero for a site. Is it the same as “customer service” to a paid vendor?

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Now Available for Download: Chapter 1 of The Next Wave of Technologies

Posted on 25. Feb, 2010
Categories: Cloud Computing, Enterprise 2.0, Open Source, SaaS

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In the first chapter of The Next Wave of Technologies, I set the stage for the rest of the book and hopefully pique your interest. I discuss companies such as Google, Twitter, and Lawson. I spend a good deal of time on the changing environment in which many organizations find themselves, now that Enterprise 2.0 has arrived.

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Si Chen on Cloud Computing and Open Source

Posted on 24. Feb, 2010
Categories: Cloud Computing, Enterprise 2.0, Guest Posts, Open Source

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A few days ago, I wrote a post about picking up not relying exclusively on social networking to meet new people.. One of the people I had the good fortune to “meet” was Si Chen, President at Open Source Strategies. We started talking about open source software and cloud computing, two topics in my next book. I floated the idea of his doing a guest post on my site to reach a different audience and, a few days later, he shot me this very informative bit. He’s wicked smart. Enjoy his post.

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Technology Today #18: Laura Schoppe on The Virtual Company

Posted on 23. Feb, 2010
Categories: Enterprise 2.0, Open Source, SaaS, Technology Today, Web 2.0

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These days, much work is performed remotely. I have supported many clients without ever actually being on site and, I’d like to think, everyone benefited. I didn’t have to waste time in airport and the client saved money on travel. Taking this to the next level, I spoke with Laura Schoppe, a crazy smart woman who runs Fuentek, a completely virtual company.

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Technology Today #17: Jill Dyche on Business Intelligence

Posted on 18. Feb, 2010
Categories: Business Intelligence, Technology Today

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Organizations are often awash in data, simultaneously having too much data but somehow not enough. Maybe they don’t have the right data or a way to interpret so much data. To combat this problem, many organizations use applications that loosely fall under the business intelligence (BI) umbrella. It’s a cool topic and who better to talk about it than author and consultant Jill Dyche of Baseline Consulting.