Tom Foremski
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Getting washed away in a media tsunami
How much media content should I produce? As a professional journalist this has been a question that I’ve struggled with over the past five years since leaving the Financial Times. I can produce a lot of media content, and hopefully, it is all quality media content. But my concern is that if I produce too ...
Linden Lab Seeking Second Life in Valuation
The value of Linden Lab, which operates the virtual world Second Life, has plunged by more than 21%, according to SharesPost, which tracks the private secondary market. In late June, Linden Lab brought back founder Philip Rosedale as interim CEO, after CEO Mark Kingdon stepped down. The current value of Linden Lab is estimated by ...
Social CRM and the Quickly Expanding Enterprise Sandbox
Wednesday evening BroadVision launched the Clearvale SecondFloor speaker series focused on thought leaders in enterprise 2.0. Clearvale is BroadVision’s name for its collaborative enterprise platform. Charlene Li, founder of the Altimeter consulting group, was interviewed by Pehong Chen, CEO of BroadVision. The event was video recorded by Sina.com, the Chinese Internet giant, on the second ...
Hey Google: Where is Poets and Quants? [Spam Watch]
Has Google lost the battle against the companies that game its system of ranking search results? It certainly seems that way from my anecdotal usage. John Byrne, the former BusinessWeek editor seems to feel the same. He recently launched a site that looks at business schools: Poets and Quants. He published a post detailing his ...
Where is the Leadership from Infrastructure Companies on Net Neutrality?
We won’t be able to have net neutrality/open Internet because the telcos will always have the right to prioritize their own services over their own networks. So let’s have real competition to the telcos. But the US has Luddite telcos. The US has some of the slowest broadband and the least penetration. A recent FCC ...
Google, Network Neutrality and the Bullshit Excuse
"Telcos are harming the US national interest," Vint Cerf at the Fortune Brainstorm conference two years ago. Why is Vint Cerf, Google’s chief Internet Evangelist and father of the Internet silent on this issue of Internet neutrality? It’s an issue that has blown up over the past few days yet Mr. Cerf has been absent. ...
Mark Hurd is Out. Who’s Next?
Who will replace Mark Hurd as CEO of Hewlett-Packard, the oldest and one of the largest companies in Silicon Valley? I’d love to hear your suggestions. Here are some of mine: – Sean Maloney is Intel’s number 2 executive and one of its best. He is back at work after being sidelined by a small ...
UK Media Brands are Anti-Social
Wildfire, a British PR firm, examined the social media activities of 50 of the fastest growing UK tech brands and found very little that was "social." More than 90% were on two or more social networks but only a minority engaged online: they ignored replying to comments or engaging in two-way communications. They used social ...
HP: Influence, Reach and Popularity Tenuously Connected
I’m a big fan of Bernardo Huberman, director of HP Labs’ Social Computing Lab, and the work of his team. HP has been applying rigorous scientific practices to the study of social media and it has a gold mine of research open to the public. It is worth emphasizing that HP’s studies are designed to ...
Engine Yard’s John Dillon: “Don’t Believe the Bad Press! Ruby on Rails Scales!”
I had a fascinating conversation this morning with John Dillon, CEO of Engine Yard, a startup with an agile application development platform that is sold as a service. It’s one of the quickest ways to develop online applications — if you were planning to build the next Facebook or Twitter, you’d likely use Engine Yard. ...