All the Interest in Pinterest

With the Facebook IPO just around the corner some people have started wondering if a “Facebook killer” might be lurking in the bushes and the new photo sharing website Pinterest has become the new darling.  Well, maybe. I got a message from an industry watcher today, Kenneth Wisnefski, social media expert and founder / CEO [...]

Google’s Woes and the Right to Be Pixilated

Just as Ayn Rand’s economics is fictional, so is Big Brother.

The Cyber Savannah

Peter C. Whybrow, M.D., is a neuro-psychiatrist and director of the Semel Institute for Neuorscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, or at least he was when he published American Mania: When More Is Not Enough in 2005.  In the book he quotes numerous economic thinkers and writers from the last 300 years including Adam Smith [...]

Carbon Survey Calls Salesforce Leader in Carbon Abatement

Marc Benioff’s Facebook page says that Salesforce.com is a rising leader in the effort to get carbon out of business.  I didn’t know there was such a survey or report but I am glad there is. Getting carbon out of your business processes is hugely important.  While most people will view this as an anti-pollution [...]

Chromebook

I am on a Virgin flight coming home from Dreamforce to the Boston area and while I’m in flight I have a loaner of a Google Chromebook computer.  I am writing this review on the device itself and plan to turn in the machine when I land.  This is a rather creative approach to marketing [...]

Eric Schmidt and Marc Benioff

Necessity is the mother of invention and last year when Bill Clinton was late for the closing keynote, Marc may have discovered an ideal medium for closing out Dreamforce.  This year he perfected it. I don’t know if Clinton was scheduled to give a conventional speech last year or a sit down interview I only [...]

Microsoft to file antitrust charges against Google, LOL!

What a difference a decade makes.  The New York Times reported on Wednesday that Microsoft will file antitrust charges against Google in Brussels today.  Just about a decade ago circumstances were reversed as Microsoft was the 800-pound gorilla in the operating system world.  Today Google is the monster of search and all things related to [...]

Adult supervision takes a powder

“Day-to-day adult supervision is no longer needed.” So wrote Eric Schmidt CEO of Google, one of the most successful digital economy companies ever, in a Tweet today.  When he was brought in by the founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin to run things in 2001, Schmidt acquired that moniker in part because the founders were [...]

Curiouser and Curiouser

Facebook got more visits than any other web property in 2010 according to an article in Computerworld.  Hitwise, an Internet analytics firm said that between January and November 2010 Google, which had the top spot in 2009 slipped to second with 7.19% of all visits compared with Facebook’s 8.93% share. Also, for a snapshot in [...]

The CEO is the Decider

“… organizations are becoming more social but perhaps the right application hasn’t come along yet to enable a CEO to be more social in a professional setting.”