I’ll expose my bias up front: I’m a fan of Blekko and its audacious project to make search better. Now the site that bought you the “spam clock,” has launched mobile apps for the iPhone and An...

Claiming SSL is not computationally expensive is like saying gas is not expensive when you don’t have to drive to work every day.  My car is eight years old this year. It has less than 30,000 mi...

This week marks the fielding of MarketingSherpa’s third annual Social Marketing Benchmark Survey. Looking back, I am fascinated at how far our practices have advanced in this channel in the past thr...

IBM is a Social Business! A social business is one that leverages social techniques as tools for organizational productivity and culture change, for engaging with diverse constituencies of clients an...

In his recent talk at the IPA Byron Sharp accused branding experts like Kotler and Aaker and most of us marketers as being primitive, ignorant users of "medieval" practices that are a waste of money....

Gartner Executive Programs (EXP) conducted a worldwide CIO survey from September to December 2010. A record-breaking participation with more than 2,000 CIOs representing over $160 billion in corporate...

In 1960, a then-prominent marketer, E. Jerome McCarthy, proposed a marketing mix approach, which became famously known as the four P’s. As everyone who has ever read a marketing textbook – or has...

There is tons of traffic out there for the taking on YouTube. It’s the second largest search engine in the world behind Google.Growing your audience on your YouTube channel isn’t easy, and sometim...

As you know, infographics are visual representations of information, data, or knowledge. They present complex concepts quickly and clearly, and communicate ideas in an easily understandable fashion. L...

TweetTIBCO, the enterprise infrastructure software company, this week announced their foray into Social Computing when they announced the GA of Tibbr, their attempt to crack the enterprise social coll...

Tweet Last week Sage, the UK’s biggest accountancy software supplier, finally released their first real online accounting solution.  It looks like a proper SaaS or Cloud offering, unlike the hosted...

NASA Adopts RightNow Cloud Service for Shared Services CentereWeekIt has its daily activity-planning software for the Mars Rover program on Amazon EC2, the Be a Martian educational Website on Microsof...

While mostly I focus on the techniques and best practices for creating great products, I have truly come to appreciate just how important culture is in contributing to great products.  By culture I a...

“To tweet or not to tweet? Facebook or not to Facebook? Hire intern or hire agency? Train sales team or keep them in the dark? Share what I had for lunch…. okay, never mind… we’ll start social...

One of my favorite approaches to save time online is to use multiple web browsers for different purposes. It allows you to combine speed + reliability with also having quick access to tons of valuable...

When it comes to launching blogs and Websites, small businesses often go with Wordpress, and for great reasons: it's customizable, widely-used and - best of all - free. In addition to the core produc...

The mobile web is growing rapidly, but in stark contrast to the pace of the mobile web’s growth, the speed at which it performs has lagged behind most consumer expectations. The performance gap pos...

This week I’ve been wandering the hallways at the World Economic Forum meeting interesting people. Instead of keeping those conversations to myself I pulled out my iPhone 4 and recorded them with Ci...

A year since it’s introduction even Google is surprised by how successful “Click to Call” has become. “We’re seeing millions of calls every month; it has become a core part of a large number...

Macworld (blog)Cisco adds Mozy cloud service to desktop Smart Storage boxMacworld (blog)Cisco Systems on Tuesday unveiled a cloud storage feature for its series of entry-level desktop NSS 300 Series S...