Social media and business: Two great tastes that go great together, or is the peanut butter scare appropriate for this rotten analogy? Wednesday morning I head to Babson for a panel with the Babson Alumni Technology Council on social media and business. The panelists will be asked whether this represents a new paradigm or a [...]

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READ MY BLOG! BUY MY STUFF! I’M THE GREATEST! I CAN MAKE YOU RICH! I AM A SOCIAL MEDIA EXPERT, AND YOU CAN LEARN A LOT FROM ME! Does this still work in today’s day and age? I guess the same can be asked of spam, and the inevitable answer is yes, it does. “He [...]

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I didn’t make it out to the Web 3.0 Conference & Expo earlier this month, but I was there in spirit—Web 3.0 has been on my mind lately a lot. First, Adam Green challenged how SocialSphere (and a hell of a lot of other companies) are positioning themselves for the economic downturn: We got to [...]

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The weather is crappy here in Boston, reflecting the overall mindset (despite the excitement around the Celtics). Yesterday was also a crappy day, both for 401(k)s and for the mood of the technology community here, what with the news of Matchmine’s abrupt ending. With that in mind, I sat down with Adam Green and Chel [...]

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What do YOU think of when you see a copy of Reader’s Digest sitting around? If you’re me, you think of a pile of them in your grandparents’ bathroom, perhaps sitting quietly next to Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader. I certainly don’t think “hip,” let alone “web 2.0.” Or I didn’t until I visited their website. [...]

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