Ross Mayfield
CEO and co-founder of Pingpad, making social productivity as instant, simple and social as messaging. Previously VP at SlideShare (acquired by LinkedIn), Co-Founder, CEO at Socialtext (the enterprise social software pioneer) and RateXchange (a B2B bandwidth exchange)
A Letter from the Chairman
I co-founded Socialtext in 2002, and through eight-years of hard work pioneered the hottest category of Enterprise software. An old Estonian saying says “the work will show you the way.” And what has kept me going through this journey is great people and a continual source of new opportunities. As I’ve written before, startups always […]
Distributed Talent, Beyond Silicon Valley
Om has a great post on Silicon Valley and the Talent Crunch. With angel funding booming and companies like Facebook, Twitter, Zynga growing like bad good talent and real estate are growing scarce again in the Valley. Yes, we cycle through boom and bust — but what I don’t understand is why we don’t learn […]
How to Bootstrap Your PR
Inc. Magazine interviewed me on How to Bootstrap your Public Relations. There are, of course, new opportunities and challenges given how technology is disrupting media: “When you had to go through mass media, there’s really a handful of media outlets…
Growth is the #NewTwitter
For many the NewTwitter is about a new user experience. Or Twitter eating its client partners for lunch while adding content partners. But for me NewTwitter can be summed up in this slide: You’ve probably seen a lot of charts…
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 […]
Wikileaks and the Plumbing of Journalism
The web has way of asking big questions of society. And right now WikiLeaks is asking very big questions. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange describes the recent release of 90k documents about the Afghanistan war thusly, in a SPIEGEL interview: Assange:…
Barcamp Channel on SlideShare
I had the dubious honor of hosting the first Barcamp in Palo Alto, with a Socialtext wiki and office, of course. Since then, Barcamp has been a worldwide phenomenon that has turned events on its head. The Open Space methodology…
Cloud Appliance Comes to the Enterprise
Software Appliances were initially created for high performance network and security infrastructure with lower administration costs. Over time the Appliance model moved up the stack from email appliances to a diverse set of business applications. This trend has continued in parallel to the rise of SaaS and Cloud Computing. SaaS Appliances provide pre-configured, self-contained applications […]
Business Video on SlideShare
SlideShare launched support for business video today: video on slideshare View more videos from Jonathan Boutelle. We already posted some videos into the Socialtext Channel. You can see others by PARC, Eric Ries, the Sustainable Brands events and more. Web2expo,…
SEC Regulating Information Arbitrage
The New York Times today points out the the SEC’s case against Goldman Sachs for betting against the securities they sold against the collapse of the housing market wasn’t about the security, but the fact that it was bet against….
