Telepresence to Moscow
When I ran for student body President at Foothill College (where I’m giving this year’s commencement speech), they had each candidate record a video pitch. Even back then I was a pretty good speaker. But in a room with just…
PageRank is Dead (The Rush to SocialRank)
Its so fun to write oversimplified posts about such-and-such is dead. Not because its true. At best you can point out something is broken and alternatives are rising fast. But I wonder how the people behind the aging technology and…
SlideShare Zipcasts for Real Time Collaboration
A long time ago Tim Oren scribbled this on a napkin to help explain a little of what he learned about collaboration. We put wikis in the top left, email in the bottom left and IM in the bottom right. He described that at the top right is a collaboration sweet spot, but a place [...]
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 [...]
The More Than RSS Market
Richard McManus of RWW notes the continuing decline of RSS Readers, suggesting the market is largely dominated by Google and in disarray. Five years ago there was a perception that this was a hot category. An underlying standard was freeing…
