How To: Know When to Put Down the Location-Based Kool-Aid
I was partially responsible for choosing Gowalla as the Texas Social Media Award winner for 2010. While I am happy to support Gowalla and use it myself, I feel compelled to drop a little…
Lunch: Social Reviews That Build Your Social Graph
By socialnerdia
Lunch is a social reviews site I came across while I was at SxSW in Austin this year. Ryan Weiss, from the site, explained their service as a place “where you can build a…
Video Content: Movie Theatre’s still King-Kiosk and Cable watchers on the Increase
By Len Grace
According to research performed by Market Force Information, Inc.; (see link at document end), movie watchers still prefer going out to enjoy the Theatre movie experience for various reasons, including:
How To: Apply Customer Feedback to Innovation
Customers have always been core to companies’ existence. An obvious statement for sure. Customers are the source of cash flow, and have historically been thought of in marketing and transactional contexts. But in recent…
Google’s Actions Towards China Could Hurt Their Other Businesses [Cold Packet Wars]
By Tom Foremski
Last week I asked if Google’s opposition to the Chinese government might affect its other business interests in China, and elsewhere. It’s already happening. Michael Wines and Jonathan Ansfield reported in today’s New York…
WiMax is Dead? Not Hardly: Clear Expanding Coverage to 120 Million by End of 2010
A lot of digital ink has been slain in the coverage of Cisco’s ongoing war to kill the WiMax standard in favor of the LTE standard. In the end, the topic is ultimately esoteric…
Cold Packet War!! – It’s Official China is a Virtual Rogue State
By John Furrier
Yesterday, I wrote about Google’s historic move to shut down mainland China search engine and redirect all traffic to Hong Kong. I liked the move by Google and predicted that they would be shut…
CheapTweet: The Act of Dealhunting isn’t Sexy, But it is Effective
Hayes Davis (and Jenn) are working this year on a project called CheapTweet (and a site called TweetReach). The big news from Austin was the launch of CheapTweet 2.0. The site just went through…
Is The Enterprise Killing Blackberry – Are They Missing The Mobile Revolution?
Firms in the enterprise market can be divided into two kinds — very large enterprises with particular compliance requirements and smaller enterprises in which internal policing is lax. Research In Motion’s BlackBerry dominates the…
“Cold Packet War” – Google China Showdown – Shuts Down China Redirects Traffic To Hong Kong
By John Furrier
Today, Google shut down it’s China web site -google.cn. In a bold move Google is shutting it’s search and redirecting all traffic to Hong Kong at Google.com.hk. This is after months of threatening to…