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One By One Media Goes Global

February 1, 2007 By Leave a Comment

No, this is not intended to be the title of a new social media press release, it merely goes to show how I felt today a I carried on three Skype chats with people from different corners of the globe.  It amazes me how the use of the Internet can grow a business from my small den in my home to a global consulting business.  As I sent my last email to a company in the UK while chatting with a client in Germany, and chatting with a company in Australia, all the while communicating with my partner in Vancouver, I began to get the real breadth of the situation.  Here are  people talking to each other in real time, and tied together by only an Internet connection.  It can boggle the mind if you try to grasp the enormity of that feat.  To that end, yes we are open for business, and we take all forms of currency!  If you are trading in clamshells however, please try to convert that before paying for our services.  What part of the world or you from? 

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Blog Business Summit Not Just a Conference But Blogger Networking

October 30, 2006 By 1 Comment

The money I spent on attendance and as a Silver Sponsor for the Blog Business Summit was more than worth it and I would recommend that if you had reservations about sponsoring the event, let me be the one to tell you it’s one of the best business decisions I’ve made this year, and I have made quite a few of them.  Some good, some bad.  This is certainly one of the best.  Seen below is a picture of (left to right) Me, Jon Bucolla of Greenpoint Technologies and Matt Mullenweg of WordPress.  We had the please of being on the same private jet from wine country back to Seattle.  Yes, and what  private jet it was! Just see their portfolio.

Teresa has a number of photographs of her pictures of all the fun after the conference.

I was able to see some old friends and make some new ones, all of them gracious with their time and always there to give advice, criticism, the constructive kind, and they all showed the passion I showed for blogging.

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Prizes Praise Proper Planning…Prepayment Procrastination Penalizes Partiers

February 21, 2006 By Leave a Comment

It took me twenty minutes in the shower this morning to come up with that alliteration.  Of course my sleep deprived state probably had something to do with that as well.  The above title sums up what might happen to those that wait too long to make their arrangements to travel with the rest of the bloggers at the Blogonomics Blog Cruise 2006.  After March 15, the cruise amount starts to rise as we get closer to the event.  Those that put in their deposit now will reap the reward of proper planning and will pay less than the poor procrastinators!  For those that sign up now for the cruise prior to March 15, will be eligible for prizes to be announced!

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Business Travellers should blog … in private

January 20, 2006 By Leave a Comment

As re-published on News.com, the NYT articles talks about how business travelers don’t really blog, and should. But in all the reasons why the missed the best one … keeping the team back home (or around the country) up to date. Now you might be thinking … “Hey blogs are public … we can’t do that!” Ah, but blogs don’t have to be public. In fact you can have a blog that is both public and private.

Think about it … a secure blog, post last-minute proposal changes. Updates on clients, new selling strategies. And all available to you and your colleagues with a couple clicks

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Continued thoughts on Web 2.0 …

November 10, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Mark Evans e-mailed me yesterday with a link to some really cool thoughts about Web 2.0.  I think this is a continuation of my thinking on Web 2.0 is too abstract.  Michael McDerment has some great thinking here (oh and here as PDF:PDF of the Web 2.0 Chronicles – Volume One).  Ads by AdGenta.comOne thing that struck me, like right between the eyes, was the connection with the Microsoft news of this week.  Then I moved into the meat of the document (yeah I printed it … but two pages per side and reused paper) and really got into it.  For me, and maybe not others, one of the key points is that “Web 2.0″ isn’t really anything new.  The same business rules apply, a square wheel is still a square wheel with a .com or a blog … it still won’t work.
 
So is Web 2.0 any different?  Well, yes it is.  I think it is the enabling technologies that are making the difference.  Things like RSS, blogs, AJAX, .Net.  Things that allow people to make fast, light apps.  Things that let you create and extension to something larger.  So this the second important difference.  Apps are built to be extended.  Look at Mozilla, Flickr, Google’s many tools.  These are apps almost built to be taken further by others.  Now, business models.  I think the ad-supported model is the one people are getting more used to.  We still watch TV, even though there are ads.  Even “commercial free” TV like PBS has to “advertise” (pledge drives) to get money.  Personally, I have a mix of apps that I use that are open-source, GPL, commercial, and ad-supported.  I don’t mind, okay I mind, paying for apps.
 
I look at Qumana.  We’re a Web 2.0 company by leveraging blogging and advertising.  I think it’s pretty innovative.  Innovative or not … new businesses need cash to start and revenue to keep going.  Maybe Web 2.0 will just be something after all.
 
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When the Titanic turns …

November 9, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Gee, think something has been going on at Microsoft lately?  Naw, just a sea change.  Breaking news earlier today (following my standard let the new sit before I blog it policy) was the release of by Dave Winer of internal e-mails from Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie.  Mark Evans of the National Post (Canada) had some great commentary first thing (the benefit of being on the East Coast) and Scoble just gushed his enthusiasm … which is a really good sign.
 
So, what’s the fuss about?  Essentially Microsoft is embracing “Web 2.0″ and it seems like the age of giant super apps is drawing to a close.  Ray Ozzie recognizes that the small, light app is key.  That extensible applications like Skype and Google Earth and Flickr are winning the day.  Why?  Because they are agile.  Rapidly deployed.  Slick.  Ray even said that the days of the complex app are over.  They suck up too much dev time.
 
I think this is truly the watershed moment of 2005.  I think this is similar to the announcement of IE getting serious attention.  Netscape ruled the day.  No one thought the first versions of IE were anything but dreck.  Now.  Now IE is top of the heap.  It’s taken years for Netscape to come back to a point where they aren’t Netwho?  But Microsoft saw the writing on the walls with Firefox.  Small, light, extensible app.  Doesn’t try to do everything.  Let individuals and other companies go beyond the core functions.
 
Clearly Microsoft is etting on the .Net and related technologies horse.  AJAX and browser-based applications are going to be more and more common.  How about a “light” version of Word that does pretty much just the core stuff, but you can add on other functions like outlining or something?
 
Yeah, we’re going to look back at this next year and think that this was a big moment.  Either that or we’re going to think we were all nuts.
 
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Linking the Sith

May 9, 2005 By Leave a Comment

As of the time of this post, Technorati.com had 11,737 mentions of “revenge of the sith”, not including this post. I thought it would be a fun experiment to follow the mentions both in Technorati and in Daypop, which right now appears to be linked to 253 pages. I’ll chart my daily findings and reveal them after the premiere.

From an advertising standpoint, how often do you suppose the word “Sith” will appear on the internet? If only I had a nickel for each appearance.

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