I'm skeptical of the report. The future of the web is in software as a service, the network as OS, etc. The web apps will improve with time. ******************** The Burton Group research and consulting firm has released a 55-page report indicating that Google Apps should be used in...

Whether it's Washington, Alabama, New Hampshire, or South Carolina, the message is the same. We want our freedom, our rights, our money, and our country back, and we're willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen. ... View Full Article

Last wednesday I gave a 45 minute talk at UXWeek 2007 (photos) called The Psychology of Social Design. Here are the slides: Download PDF of The Psychology of Social Design I've also created a set of resources and links for the talk at ... View Full Article

Unfortunately for YouTube, the community is the boss. I'm beginning to think well-done product placement is the future of Internet advertising. **************** YouTube fans rant, threaten to leave over new ads — Revolt in progress, or just usual change-related fussing? —...

The aggregator turned ad network is what I feel is really needed in terms of online video. So I don't see much real competition to YouTube. A good analysis though by Mashable. *************** While YouTube’s announcement that they will start including ads in video comes as little...

Could be huge....will be interesting to see. ********************** Facebook Gets Personal With Ad Targeting Plan — Social-networking Web site Facebook Inc. is quietly working on a new advertising system that would let marketers target users with ads based on the massive amounts...

It's all about the development community -- which is one of the reasons why I think the web OS will come from the open source community, because they have the best development communities. ***************** Facebook wants to be the operating system for the web, it says, and this week’s...

What is the critical ingredient in the performance of virtual teams? It’s not communication; it’s trust. Trust mediates the relationship between communication and performance. In the absence of trust, more communication will not help ... View Full Article

This is one of the biggest problems in open source; people refusing to embrace anything commercial. For profit open source ventures are inevitable; the sooner we embrace them and look to identify what works and what doesn't, the better off we'll all be. *********************** ...

Only delaying the inevitable, and the greater the delay, the more inflation we'll end up seeing when the junk debts start getting called. ************** Investor fears over credit markets showed signs of easing after European central bankers injected more funds into the banking system...

Very important to know your archetype. *************** This is a very very rough draft of the outline for what the Archetypes look like in a community (mostly thrown up here from TextPad notes). It is important to note that all of these community archetypes play highly positive roles in...

Outstanding post by Alex Iskold, although the analogies to the stock market, economy, and bubbles and recessions are totally off. The part about the digestion phase of technology, though, is very true. The key, in my opinion, is to leverage commoditized technology to increase the return of human...

My list of “niche social media sites that actually send traffic� is one of the most popular pages on this blog. I know I visit it at least twice a week (whenever I do a link bait launch), so no surprises there. ... View Full Article

Don Dodge has a great analysis of the search market. To answer his question, flameout seems most likely to me; IPO and M&A will be tougher to find as the economy worsens. Larger consideration is that search will not be disrupted by something that starts as a search engine. Google's has...

Explaining social media to small businesses is a huge problem. Seriously holding back the web, and is, in my opinion, one of the leading examples of the problem of digital divide 2.0 (the social media vs those who don't use social media). *************** Sometimes at speaking...