Archive for November, 2005

Net thinkers look to web’s future

BBC NEWS | Technology | Net thinkers look to web’s future

The Webby’s bubbly founder, Tiffany Shlain, told the BBC News website that, like it or not, a second boom was now under way.

In her mind, the internet bubble never really burst in the traditional sense.

“People were thinking of the web as the bubble part, instead of the air part, in the bubble,” she said.

“Now that the bubble has burst, the air is everywhere, and everyone’s breathing in, and everyone’s contributing to it. It’s very exciting how many people are online now.”

Nice to see optimism and reality meet

30 November, 2005 | No comments

A one-stop shop for the ‘best’ blogs

A one-stop shop for the ‘best’ blogs | csmonitor.com

No one questions that the news and information media landscape is on shifting ground. Newspaper circulation is falling while audiences for Internet weblogs - the online journals called blogs for short - are growing rapidly. The Pew Internet & American Life Project estimates that more than a quarter of Internet users read blogs.

The article goes on to explain how Pajama’s Media intends to pool bloggers to make advertising more attractive, but it also points out that the business model has more than its share of detractors.

30 November, 2005 | No comments

Flurry of recent deals show how blogs can profit

Flurry of recent deals show how blogs can profit - Nov. 23, 2005

It can’t be said anymore that blogging isn’t a business. The problem now may be that blogging has too many business models to choose from.

An interesting article on Blogging models. Although it focuses on the technology providers and not the content providers.

29 November, 2005 | No comments

Microsoft tried to remove free software reference

Microsoft tried to remove free software reference | InfoWorld | News | 2005-11-28 | By John Blau, IDG News Service

Microsoft tried to have references to free software removed from a document approved at the United Nations-sponsored Internet summit in Tunis two weeks ago, a blog discussion has revealed. But the attempt failed.

Enough said

29 November, 2005 | No comments

E-Mail Is So Five Minutes Ago

E-Mail Is So Five Minutes Ago

As if an explanation is necessary. The analytically gifted investment banker had morphed into a zombie-faced thumb man, wheeling through his engorged in-box as his last activity before going to bed and his first upon waking. The time squandered on his electronic mistress made his brain reel. Of the 250 e-mails he received each day, he says “85% were totally not important to my job.” Think that ratio of e-waste sounds depressing? It gets worse. Legitimate e-mail will drop to 8% this year, down from 12% last year, according to Redwood City (Calif.) e-mail filtering outfit Postini Inc.

Excellent article on the many time wasters of a digital stakeholder based society. Just becasue we can do something doesn’t mean we should. We have strategies for every component of a business, so why not communications? Definitely worth taking a look.

18 November, 2005 | No comments

Machines and objects to overtake humans on the Internet: ITU

BREITBART.COM - Just The News

Machines will take over from humans as the biggest users of the Internet in a brave new world of electronic sensors, smart homes, and tags that track users’ movements and habits, the UN’s telecommunications agency predicted.

I don’t know that I have thought about this, but it makes sense.

17 November, 2005 | No comments

Yahoo to run Gawker blogs

FT.com / By industry / Media & internet - Yahoo to run Gawker blogs

Yahoo, one of the largest internet portals, on Wednesday announced an agreement to publish five weblogs from Gawker Media in a bid to attract younger readers to its site and to hold their attention for longer.

Another step in increasing the viability of the medium.

17 November, 2005 | No comments

Portal Generates Revenue

PortalsMag.com: Portal Generates Revenue

The portal (a combination of IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM partner Bowstreet’s Portlet Factory) saves each of Ball Memorial’s 50 employed physicians 15 minutes a day, meaning the scheduling of an additional patient per physician per day. That represents $60,000 a month in additional revenue, or $720,000 a year.

It is great to see someone actually quantify the savings that these new stakeholder technologies create. We know they make things “better” but exactly how much remains an elusive question.

16 November, 2005 | No comments

Small-Town Shops Bulk Up on the Web

Small-Town Shops Bulk Up on the Web - New York Times

Beyond the revenue from online sales, Manitowoc’s merchants say the biggest benefit of e-commerce is that it enables them to turn over their inventory much more quickly, so owners can add more products and variety to their sales floors. That, in turn, encourages more interest and customer traffic, diversifies the revenue stream and contributes to downtown street life here and in other small cities.

Another great article on how digital stakeholder relationships are impacting traditional stakeholder relations. They can work together. But the thing that I find funny is the experts predicted this would happen at the advent of the WWW, not 10 years later

16 November, 2005 | No comments

Customer Reference Management and the Self-Service Imperative

destinationCRM.com: Customer Reference Management and the Self-Service Imperative

Since the mid-1990s the trend toward self-service has accelerated at a dizzying pace. In some cases it’s been merely a cost savings measure with more attention being paid to the self (read: not our people) than service. That began to change in the late ’90s as more self-service moved online. The trend has been to improve service by improving access to real-time data, extending the range of online capabilities, and giving customers 24×7 access points to their bank accounts, health insurance records, and of course retailers. Web self-service has become a way of life, personal and business. Click here to learn more!

A good article with some excellent insights on what some call “self service” and others would call do it yourself. Many compaies have take the self service approach in an attempt to reduce costs, but have forgotten about the service component.

16 November, 2005 | No comments

The New IT Professional

destinationCRM.com: The New IT Professional

Versatility, initiative, and business knowledge are essential for success; professionals will need to focus on business processes and relationships, as well as technology.

Have they bugged my office? I regularly have conversations with colleagues about this topic and it seems the author of this article agrees with me…or do I agree with the author? Anyway, the basic idea is technology is cool, but technology in business has to help the business. This the term digital stakeholder. We all have a vested interest in the technology use of our organizations.

16 November, 2005 | No comments

Communicators Still Tiptoeing Around Blogs

Communicators Still Tiptoeing Around Blogs

Though professional communicators are aware of the weblog boom, the majority still seem reluctant to embrace the medium amid fears of the inherent lack of control of information that comes with it, according to a recent poll.

Interesting, blogs have a “lack of control”. I suspect the reason most of us are tired of traditional news sites is that they have too much control. This one leans right and that one leans left. At least when you read a blog they are not proposing that they are bing unbiased and objective like news sites want us to believe. So knowing that there is no control is actually a control in itself.

16 November, 2005 | No comments

Google to kick off database venture

The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Google to kick off database venture

An ambitious new Google service will let anyone upload most anything to a publicly searchable database, potentially laying the groundwork for a foray by the Internet juggernaut into classified advertising.

Have you been keeping up with the developments of Google Base? After reading more about it, it seems like classified advertising is too simple. The potential of this tool is enormous…and so are the risks. Keep watching.

16 November, 2005 | No comments

Website to blend journalism with blogs

USATODAY.com - Website to blend journalism with blogs

NEW YORK — A media website scheduled to debut Wednesday will seek to blend traditional journalism with the freeform commentary developed through the emerging Web format known as blogs.

The change continues

16 November, 2005 | No comments

High-speed college network closes

BBC NEWS | Technology | High-speed college network closes

The i2Hub network was of particular concern to the entertainment industry as it allowed users to download large files in seconds.

The service was set up to allow students to share textbooks and research papers, but quickly become used by many for sharing films and music.

This is interesting in that the network was established for legitimate reasons…or was it?

15 November, 2005 | No comments

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