Web 2.0

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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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 #10: A Podcast with Mitch Joel on Social Media

Posted on 24. Jan, 2010
Categories: Social Media, Technology Today, Web 2.0

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Few topics are hotter these days than social media and digital marketing and few folks know more about them than my guest today, Mitch Joel. Mitch is the author of the best selling book Six Pixels of Separation and the President of Twist Image. In episode 11 of Technology Today, Mitch talks about social media, Amazon, the iPad, blogging, Charlie Rose, and a whole host of other topics.

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Technology and Unemployment

Posted on 21. Jan, 2010
Categories: Web 2.0

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The housing meltdown and Great Recession make it impossible to determine the exact role of technology in explaining why unemployment exceeds ten percent, a figure that does not count the “underemployed.” Economists would have to use some pretty sophisticated statistics to begin to address that question.

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Collaboration just got a whole lot easier

Posted on 20. Jan, 2010
Categories: Collaboration, Web 2.0

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Check out the bottom of the site that you are reading. The WordPress plug-in from Wibya allows for easy collaboration and a whole host of other features. It’s very simple to add chat, translation, and social networking functionality (and a bunch of other incredibly cool stuff) to your site.