Not Social
When Pfizer launched the first social media channel on SlideShare for a regulated industry, it was met with industry applause, but also some controversy. Case in point, and article Pharma News: Pfizer Channel criticized as ‘not social.’ Various criticisms have been raised against the channel, however, including the fact that it does not allow comments [...]
JavaScript everywhere – make all #7
Bill Higgins and I and discuss the state of web application development, mostly JavaScript, HTML 5, and REST(ful) protocoling.
Optimizing the Wrong Metric may be the root of All Evil in Marketing
Bootstrappers have to figure out how to market via the web. It’s the lowest cost, lowest friction, highest leverage medium available to get the word out. And, it is the easiest place to collect metrics so your decision making can be informed rather than just seat of the pants. But there are many dangers with [...]
Adobe buying Day – Quick Analysis
Adobe announced it was buying Day Software today, filling in a portfolio hole with Day’s web-driven content management technology and looking towards web-driven business.
When Real-time is Too Much – Can You Handle the Firehose?
This morning I’ve been testing TweetDeck’s new super-fast version, based on the new Twitter User Streams API. TweetDeck provides fair warning: This is a VERY experimental version of TweetDeck I saw a few small glitches, but nothing major. Yet I am in trouble, and it’s not because of the product. It’s me. My brain… The [...]
The Thing About Analysts – And PR/Marketing Folks
I was reading Ray Wang’s great post on “The 7 Tenets of Building a Star Analyst Firm” and then Vinnie Mirchandani’s follow up “More Tenets for the Nex Gen Analyst” and it got me to thinking – on a tangent, but on something that might matter to all those PR and marketing people responsible for [...]
Stepping on Supply Risk: Is China Dumping an Inferior Grating Product on the US?
Even though I have historically been conservative in my views on anti-dumping cases — I think the burden of proof must lie entirely with those filing the complaints — a recent case in the steel industry, is (so sorry for the pun), grating on me. Our sister site MetalMiner recently covered what first appeared to [...]
Summer and all that
Been quiet for awhile now, and not because I’ve had a spot of vacation, quite the opposite. Delivery-time now, meaning programming, helping to build a new business model (and delivery using Thingamy of course) for a very interesting and ambitious…
Risky Apple iPad Business: Putting all of its Supply Chain LCD Displays in One Vendor Basket
This week, Procurement Leaders reported on a story that’s garnering headlines, suggesting that LG, a key supplier in Apple’s iPad supply chain, might not be able to assure supply for the components in this hot, new tablet device. According to the story, “LG Display has warned that it may be unable to keep up with [...]
Herding primadonnas… Welcome to Wendy’s world
Imagine a job where good work is rarely praised and people can only complain that you somehow messed up?
