Stories on the tech industry, content marketing and online sales enablement
Here’s a selection of stories that came out in a week dominated by financial bailout news. Dana Gardner at ZDnet with a very good post about the coming standardization around cloud computing. Dana believes that customer lock in will come from superior exectution, rather than proprietary hardware and software. I hope he’s right: More important than in past […]
Friday morning I attended an Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) National Capitol breakfast. Congressman Tom Davis was the speaker, a Republican representing northern Virginia. Davis announced last year he would not be standing for re-election. He’s widely credited with being the most informed member of Congress on government IT and procurement issues. Here’s an interview […]
Fundamental elements of Internet infrastructure have been in the news lately, and it hasn’t been a pretty picture. Last month a serious security problem with the Domain Name System (DNS) was described by Dan Kaminsky at the Black Hat/DefCon show. I took at shot at describing the vulnerability here when the news first broke in […]
If you’re Mark Zuckerberg, you’ve got to find a way to monetize the huge traffic Facebook attracts, which they recently claimed has grown to 100 million active users. Advertisers want to reach this mostly young, tech literate demographic. Last week Facebook announced a new beta program that could work for some companies but not many, […]
I read a Peter Whoriskey Washington Post article on web radio provider Pandora this weekend that had me shaking my head. The company has over one million users and is one of the most popular iPhone applications, but it may have to cease operations: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081503367.html Pandora founder Tim Westergren admits the company isn’t making money, […]
Thought leadership is very important in public relations. It is incredibly powerful when your client is seen an an expert in his or her field, and it makes earned media coverage much easier to secure. But sometimes clients assume that thought leadership is simply a process PR pros have mastered, when it really starts with […]
Dan Kaminsky has had quite a month. Early in July, it was announced that months earlier he had discovered a major security problem with DNS, the addressing system of the Internet. But he didn’t make the news public. Instead he worked for months behind the scenes with major technology providers so patches could be programmed […]
Really interesting article from Tim Lee of Ars Technica about customer owned residential fiber. Yes you read that right — a pilot program in Ottawa ran fiber to 400 homes, and the residents own the last mile. Sure gives Fiber to the Home (FTTH) a whole new meaning: http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/customer-owned-fiber.ars While this could insert a fascinating […]
Last night I attended a very interesting presentation by Dan Pink, best selling author of “A Whole New Mind” and “Free Agent Nation.” Dan is a definite free agent himself, with his last “real” job being chief speechwriter for Vice President Al Gore. The event was held at Merrill Lynch’s HQ on K Street and organized […]
Tuesday a big story broke that could have impacted millions of web users. A researcher discovered a major security flaw involving the Domain Name System (DNS), and instead of selling the information or using it to market himself he went to major internet vendors and discussed the vulnerability with them. Today Microsoft, Cisco, Sun and […]
Last week stories broke about a significant change in the way Internet addressing will be managed. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has opened up the process of assigning new top level domains (TLD’s), such as .com and .net. Potentially any string of letters could be a TLD — maybe we’ll see […]
Last night I attended a big social media gathering at MCCXXIII (1223 for those not into roman numerals) on Connecticut Avenue. It was pulled together quickly by Robert Scoble, noted tech blogger and roving fastcompanyTV producer. He hooked up with Andrew Feinberg of Capitalvalley.net to preach the gospel of new media to Capitol Hill. Gary […]