Fragmentation begets frustration

RSS; swicki’s; mechanical turk; semantic search; flickr; WiMax; grazr; opera; adsense; blinkpro; screencasting; social networks. I could continue the list of new innovations all day long. The Web is good at creating countless opportunities but is really great at creating fragmentation: little bits and pieces of technology that hope to solve this or that problem. [...]

User generated media cruises along

The NYT reports another venture getting funded that helps users share video content online. These two guys have their own show about posts to their Web site, digg. The push to visual communication continues and some day we’ll spend have our day communicating with our eyes, lips and ears and not just typing and reading [...]

The implications of user-generated content, part 1

With widespread broadband access, users can easily view and post audio and video content online right now. As more and more people spend time online, they’re not sitting in front of their TV. There are, however, many important implications to consider regarding this dramatic shift:

Make it quality content: the material you see and hear has [...]

Video’s big secret

Despite all the hype on Google’s acquisition of YouTube, video will still be widely dismissed as a business communications weapon. As recent editorial pieces at B2B magazine (October 2006) and Revenue magazine (July/August 2006) attest, video needs to be taken seriously. It may be years before companies discover the right way to communicate visually. My [...]

Humor and viral marketing

This ad posted on YouTube is a great example of how quickly humor and word of mouth can work together to draw a crowd.
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