Here’s some exciting news: I’ve joined the advisory board of high-flying cloud networking startup Pertino (a company worthy of ‘betting your career on’ according to one source). Why am I so excited about working with…
The WordPress ecosystem, now powering over 17% of the web, has been successful beyond even my wildest expectations when I started working with it over 5 years ago. As one of the best-known examples of…
I love searching online for travel deals. But what if the biggest travel sites have become so powerful they can force hotels never to sell their inventory to competitors at a lower cost? Then online…
Wait…don’t we already know everything about Enterprise Systems adoption? Why would I want to submit a paper by March 1st, 2012 to the Enterprise Systems Adoption and Business Models track (Call for Papers here) at…
I recently joined the International Journal of Electronic Commerce as an editorial board member, and its new web editor. Which is cool, because IJEC is still the #1 rated e-commerce journal in the universe. But…
The Steve Jobs story has something for everyone. He was a revolutionary who embodied the American Dream; design was his weapon. He was a self-made man whose success came from building products, not by gaming…
Strange coincidence: The two technologies that influenced my life the most were born on the same day. As me. On August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb attack was unleashed on Hiroshima. Nuclear weaponry, and…
Compared to old school Yellow Pages and newspaper ads, local businesses are facing a confusing new world of marketing across Google, Facebook, Yelp, Twitter, Groupon, email, and tons of other online services. I gave a…
Perhaps the correct title is more like Your 30 minute introduction to Online Business, but below are the slides for this morning’s talk on Becoming an Online Millionaire (and Other Fantasies Partially Based in Reality)….
Thanks to social media, any clear separation we might have once had between technologies of intimacy, and technologies of broadcast, is gone. Lured at first by the promise of exclusivity, then by the efficient management…