When giants collide – Facebook and Skype in talks
If this doesn’t keep traditional telecom providers awake at night, then I want some of what they are taking. Facebook already own the phone books of 500 million users around the world. Facebook is...
View ArticleIn an increasingly global world, local is king
As more and more of what we consume is driven by anonymous corporates thousands of miles away, our feeling of local is becoming increasingly important. The growth in availability of high speed internet...
View ArticleWhen giants collide – part 2
Microsoft is reported to have closed a $8.5bn (£5bn) deal for the internet phone service Skype, in a deal that has shocked analysts who think it would be a substantial overpayment for the company....
View ArticleIt’s time to stop making this so hard
Isn’t it funny how when you loose you car keys, no matter how hard you look you can’t find them. Then conversely, when you have something on your mind, you stumble across it everywhere you look, even...
View ArticleGoogle+, Facebook+Skype+Microsoft
There’s some advice I heard a few years ago from a successful Silicon Valley marketeer (now retired with permanent runway rights and plane to go with it), and it went something like this, “when naming...
View ArticleIs Groupon good for small business?
Valued at over $12bn with more than 50 million subscribers, Groupon is quite a force to be reckoned with, and it really does sound like a win-win solution if you read their press kit Groupon brings...
View ArticleManaging bad reviews
A couple of weeks ago I was found myself in a shop just off of Union Square in San Francisco, being harassed into a purchase. I don’t like being pushed into anything, let alone parting with my money,...
View ArticleGoogle suffers the Cloud
Interesting. TechCrunch are saying that one of the reasons Google is falling behind is that its mobile strategy is not robust enough, with too much emphasis on cloud apps rather than native. A mobile...
View ArticleLinkedIn: Managing unsolicited invites & endorsements
Since publishing my recent note on the annoyance of unsolicited behaviours on LinkedIn I have been asked many times about how to deal with these. So below are the steps to ignore and report unsolicited...
View ArticleFacebook alienates, what can businesses learn | Social Business
This is a post of two halves, firstly a little rant about the breaches of trust with Facebook, and then a thought about business can and must learn from Facebook as it goes the way of MySpace,...
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