Archive for August, 2009

Mark Gimein (of Slate’s “The Big Money”) recently posited that Twitter is “collapsing under its own weight” due to the sheer number of Tweets we all have to wade through. I agree. I recommend three steps to the leaders of Twitter to both make the service more useful and create a revenue driving service…

Many of us use Twitter, a free cloud-based service, to market ourselves and conduct one-to-one business development. Unfortunately, hackers brought Twitter down several times already this month with Denial-of-Service attacks. This begs the question, “when should we invest in obtaining our own clouds—vs. sharing free crowds with others?”…

The 2009 Gartner Hype Cycle Special Report evaluates the maturity of 1,650 technologies and trends in 79 technology, topic and industry areas. New Hype Cycles this year include cloud computing, data center power and cooling technologies, and mobile device technologies. Here are my Web 1.0 reflections and Web 2.0 prognostications based on this report…

Over the past year, we have seen a proliferation not only of social networking tools and services but the addition of the moniker “2.0” to everything from Mobile to Health Care. It is important in all of this to remember that networks start–and end–with people. If we forget this, all of the technology and process we develop will simple add clutter to everyone’s lives…