Category: Business

  • Will Google Friend Connect deliver the promise?

    I’m doing a little experiment on this site with Google Friend Connect, a new service in beta from Google that was announced in May. Some sites are receiving invitations to sign up; this site is one of those. According to…

  • Contemporary suits Ferrero

    One of the people I encountered in Barcelona during this past week, where I chaired the New Media in Marketing and Communications Strategy conference (about which a post soon), was Guillaume du Gardier, pictured in a photo I took on…

  • Has a tipping point arrived for Twitter?

    A lot of people have being doing a lot of writing about Twitter during the past week. I’m not referring specifically to the awful events in Mumbai, India, where Twitter played a significant role in rapidly connecting online people with…

  • What Twitter with ads might look like

    Web technologist Niall Kennedy has done something very interesting with Twitter – he created TwitterFE. […] a fully-functional read-only clone of Twitter.com designed to make your web browser sing. I created the site as an example of web development best…

  • Tackling ivory towers and silos

    Downsizing is the undisputed global management trend of the moment, says The Economist in a feature in the current edition that discusses what some companies are doing to reduce costs beyond the job cuts that have been making the news…