Marketing
I was reading this interesting post, Emerging Enterprise Content Management Trends, on the Gilbane Group blog this morning when I stumbled into this rather amazing soundbite. Jeff Fried, VP Product Management for Microsoft's FAST search engine actually proclaimed that "keyword search is dead!" Now, last I
Marketing
Continuing my recent rants about newspapers, please see this interesting story in the New Yorker by James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds, entitled News You Can Lose. On the source of the problems: There’s no mystery as to the source of all the trouble: advertising revenue has
Strategy
Just a quick post to highlight an exceptional PowerPoint deck (that I suspect is making the viral rounds) on happiness as the first-principle from which you can create a successful business model. It's by Tara Hunt, founder of Internet consultancy Citizen Agency, and author of a blog called
Strategy
I've been hearing more and more from my old friends in the business intelligence (BI) world about a product called QlikView, from a Swedish company, QlikTech, that was founded as a consultancy in 1993 and launched its product in 1997. QlikTech's war cry is one word:
Marketing
I've had a few marketing inquiries of late so I thought I'd devote a post or two to some of my favorite marketing topics: messaging and the marketing mission. This post’s on messaging. Surprisingly, when you Google “how to develop a marketing message” you don’
Strategy
A friend pointed me to this interesting post by Allan Packer of Sun entitled Are Proprietary Databases Doomed? Overall, I think it's a well done analysis of the DBMS market and well worth reading. First, a nit. When I was a lad, "proprietary" didn't
Strategy
I found this post today on Vallewag, which shows that Facebook grew from 8.7M to 19.5M users in the year ended 10/07 while LinkedIn grew from 1.7M to 4.9M. So while Facebook is nearly 4x LinkedIn's size (and MySpace nearly 3x Facebook'
