Tom Foremski
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A Bottoms-Up Approach to News? Newspapers’ Reach is Greater than Internet’s
Here’s an interesting report on Poynter.org from the World Newspaper Congress and World Editors Forum in Vienna, Austria, and a survey of 69 countries: The annual survey shows that newspapers reach 2.3 billion people daily, while the Internet reaches 1.9 billion. … Newspaper circulation is rising in Asia and Latin America, but dropping in Europe ...
Local SF Economy is Booming, Office Space Search
San Francisco Chronicle reports that 40 tech companies are searching for 2 million square feet of office space, the “equivalent of nearly four Transamerica Pyramids” says Mayor Ed Lee. The article profiles a company called Idle Games, which is equipping an office space for 185 staff. The company, designs games for Facebook, one of which ...
Tibco CTO Matt Quinn: “I’d Do This Job For Free”
(I’m in Las Vegas this week attending Tibco’s user conference. Tibco is a founding sponsor of SVW and has been a strong supporter of my work for many years.) – TF Tibco Software is an interesting company, it is doing extremely well, it’s on track to report nearly $1 billion in revenues this year. Its ...
Google Just Wants to Be #3… Here’s Why
My son told me about a breakthrough ad strategy he stumbled upon for his affiliate businesses: reduce your Google AdWords spend, yes, you drop down from #1 in the Google advertising order to #3 or so, but the conversion rate is still good and it’s costing a lot less. The reason I’m sharing this tidbit ...
What if People Stop Sharing? Facebook Has the Answer
I’ve often wondered if the Facebook “Like” or Google “+1” buttons are the most basic of all social gestures — the most minimal of user generated content that can be published by social media streams. I’ve wondered if these buttons represent the most basic of unit of our social media worlds — do they represent ...
Google is Aggresively Pushing Revenues Amid Senate Scrutiny
Google has adopted an aggressive program of stuffing its search pages with paid listings as the financial quarter draws to a close — a risky strategy as the US Senate holds hearings on its industry dominance. Google’s search pages are being flooded with paid search listings from its AdWords advertising network in the final weeks ...
Zaarly: Searching for Gold in Hyper-Local Commerce
Bo Fishback is convinced that his startup Zaarly has the potential to remake the national economy by making it easier for people to farm out small jobs to their local community. Need someone to stand in line for you at a popular breakfast place in San Francisco? That’s what one Zaarly user did recently and ...
Business Technologies That Shook The World
Dell has produced an interesting infographic about important business technology achievements, a very large infographic. [Is it too large? How long can you go before you need an infographic to explain it…?] ...
Intel’s Advanced Energy Saving Microprocessors
At the Intel Developer Forum, Justin Rattner, Chief Technology Officer, presented a keynote on advanced microprocessors with 50 or more cores and able to run on tiny amounts of electric power. The chips would be able to switch off large chunks of its circuits, conserving power yet still remaining on. Intel describes what it calls ...
Intel: The Software Company
Intel recently held a one-day conference in San Francisco focused on its software efforts, which are an increasingly important part of its business. The importance of software to Intel is highlighted by the fact that it devoted an entire day to this topic, just days away from its massive Intel Developer Forum conference next week. ...