Rackspace Pulls eBay Veep Mark Roenigk for COO Slot
A major executive hire was made today, as Rackspace today brought on a new COO in ex-eBay veep Mark Roenigk. Roenigk will be reporting to Rackspace president and CEO Lanham Napier, and has been…
How To: Offer Context Everywhere to your Visitors and Customers
A new platform from Kynetx has tools that let developers use customer preferences to add features to Web sites, regardless of the browser. Phillip Windley, CTO, and Stephen Fulling, CEO of the Utah-based startup,…
Reflections 2009: Daisy Picks Her Favorite “Company to Watch”
At this time last year in the New Media Minute, Daisy Whitney picked five new media companies to watch in 2009: Kaltura, My Damn Channel, Quantcast, 5min and Boxee. They all had good years…
How to Protect Your Facebook Privacy in 3 Easy Steps
By Robert Lee
Facebook’s deal with Google started Monday. Even if you had chosen only to let your friends view your pictures and information on Facebook, they just cut a deal that allows Google to find and…
Details of the NexusOne keep leaking out all over the place
By Sean P. Aune
Have you heard about the NexusOne? If you answered "no", you are either Amish or dead. If you’re the latter, please don’t eat my brains as reading this means you have come back to…
The Retail Industry have the Most Active Communities
The results of a new study initiated by ComBlu found that Retail is the leader of the pack when it comes to maintaining active online communities. But despite this top-billing, most retail brands and…
Is SCRM ’09 the same as eCRM ’99? [Buzzword Bingo]
I made a bit of a wisecrack (I do that often…) yesterday on Twitter in response to Ray Wang of Altimeter Group’s tweet that traditional CRM vendors are making "Not much progress on Social…
The eGuiders are YouTube’s Curators of the Month
My friend Marc Ostrick over at eGuiders sent me a note that he and fellow SiliconANGLEr Michael Sean Wright as long as the rest of the team of content editors at the site have…
Foursquare + Square = Killer Small Business Social CRM [Convergence Point]
Parker Smith wrote a piece that got me thinking. In Foursquare: Democratizing the Loyalty Program, he posits that Foursquare could be the loyalty program provider to small businesses. I think he’s right. Then I…
Tivo Could Be the Future of IPTV
It is hardly surprising that as digital video recorders (DVRs) become more ubiquitous, their basic function (i.e., automatic time shifting of television shows) is rapidly becoming commoditized. When TiVO was introduced in 1999 it…