Archive for the ‘ Social Computing ’ Category

7 Stories in 7 Days: Week of 7-25-11

Well you may notice the new headline. Trying to find 10 stories that were really interesting was sometimes a challenge. And sometimes it made it hard to then find one or two others to give a little more perspective on. So I’m shrinking the list.  Here we go: I’m not sure why I’m so riveted by [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 7-18-11

Concur continues its investment binge with $5M for Yapta and integrates the air and hotel price tracking tool into TripIt. Isis, the carrier-led near field communication (NFC) mobile payment platform has signed up Visa, MasterCard and American Express along with original partner Discover, who will join the carrier initiative when it launches next year. Interesting development, [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 5-16-11

OK, I thought this post went up a few days ago, but it was saved as a draft. Sorry for the delay: Linkedin had an amazing IPO, going out at $45 and seeing the stock price more than double in the first day of trading. That’s a market valuation of over $9 billion…with a “B”. Is Android [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 5-9-11

I’m gonna write up something separate on Google IO, but in case you missed it, here’s the other stuff of note that happened last week: Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5B. Every Skype user in the world fears the folks in Redmond will kill Skype intentionally or unintentionally. The good news seems to be that Skype will [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 3-14-11

Can’t think of anything pithy to lead off with, so without further adieu: Infor, the third largest ERP vendor, who also has a growing hospitality software business, it trying to strengthen its position and broaden its vertical ERP offerings with a $1.8B unsolicited bid for Lawson Software (the 6th largest ERP vendor), backed by private equity [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 1-10-11

Lot of important stuff last week, but the most awaited announcement…of maybe the past 2 years…leads the list: Many prayers have finally been answered as Verizon announced that the iPhone will be coming to their network in early February. It is anticipated that legions of dissatisfied AT&T customers will switch, but the bigger potential is with [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 1-3-11

While there is a lot of travel and technology news to get to, the most important and awful news of the week was the terrible tragedy this weekend in Tuscon as an armed man opened fire at a meeting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, shooting the Congresswoman in the head and killing 6 people including a [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 12-20-10

Just when you thought it might be a quiet week leading up to the holidays…SURPRISE! The story of the week was American Airlines distribution, but the FCC’s actions regarding net neutrality will be much more far reaching in their effect. I hope everyone had a safe and happy holiday weekend. For those of you in the [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 12-13-10

Sorry for the late post, just trying to get things done before the end of the year like everyone else Google is starting to do what every company has feared…biasing results based on the promotion of their own content, not the “authority” and quality of the results. TripAdvisor is the first to feel their [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 12-6-10

A very interesting week indeed. In particular a lot of news out of Salesforce.com and TripAdvisor. Salesforce.com had their Dreamforce event last week and there was no shortage of news. IDC #staranalyst Michael Fauscette summarizes the show, but I wanted to highlight 3 announcements of note: Salesforce Chatter goes Freemium. Perhaps one of the most important announcements [ READ MORE ]

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