Tag Archives : Creative Destruction

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…

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…

Yesterday morning (12am EDT to be exact), Facebook opened the doors to allowing its members to register and bind easy-to-handle usernames to their accounts (company and organization names are coming soon). This is yet another step along the road that will eventually make it impossible for new organizations to brand themselves using plain simple language…

Last week, I participated in a panel discussion at the Wharton School on the effects of social networks on technology and business strategy. Here is a wrap-up of what I heard…

On May 22, Steve Ennen, Managing Director, Wharton Interactive Media Initiative will be moderating a panel discussion on the business and strategy in the Age of Social Networks. Here is some food for thought to those planning to attend…

I will be a panel speaker the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Interactive Media initiative next month discussing how Web 2.0 is creating new challenges for CxOs in how they manage technology. To prepare, I am starting a series of posts on the challenges I face day-to-day on this (and how they are different from the Web 1.0 world)…