Father of the internet: ‘web is running out of addresses’

Oh by, here we go again.  This is bring back memories of Y2K.  Sounds like there might be a run on Internet real estate, but hey we can jsut create some more, right?  I would imagine that this is going to be a boom for GoDaddy and Networksolutions but a big headache for the rest [...]

Obama and McCain Who is Better for Small Business?

In reading this article by Inc.com you would think that they were personally jilted at the alter because Obama’s man Jason Furman was at a meeting in Florida with Obama’s economic advisors to discuss the economic melt down.  I guess Inc deems their conference as the priority.  However one thing is for sure I don’t [...]

Freddie Mac – Fannie Mae – Ralph Nader – $58 Trillion

It is interesting to me to see that neither major candidate is talking about the looming bigger financial crisis about to make the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac fiasco and the $700 Billion bail out look like Romper Room.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-16u9x3tfE  See this interview with the comptroller general of the GAO appointed by Clinton Administration.  Every [...]

Microsoft Managing Our Contact Database on a Social Level

In this TechCrunch article they talk about how Microsoft does not listen to Generation Y.  This is probably fairly accurate, Microsoft was slow to get on board with the Internet and has made an attempt to grab Yahoo! a while back.  Making Outlook a social media tool would be interesting indeed.  I have tons of [...]

Do I Need a New Web Browser? What is a Google Chrome Web Browser?

Today Google released a new web browser called Google Chrome.  I went thru the short little videos talking about all the features and functionality.  Not a whole lot new in there except for the browser crash feature which allows you to see how much memory each one of your tabs is using. I just downloaded [...]

Small Businesses, Obama, McCain and Detroit

During the past year and a half I regularly called several of the candidates to interview them on a small business web site MySuccessGateway.com and ask them how they would approach small business issues: i.e. minimum wage, taxes, SBA, Federal SBA contracts going to Fortune 500 etc. I was finally able to land an interview [...]

Word of Mouth Marketing and Viral Marketing

Here is a blog post for viral marketers.  Damn I wish I thought of that! A while back when Andy Sernovitz was head of WOMMA he and I did an interview to talk about word of mouth marketing.  He just sent me an e-mail today about viral marketing and it has a few tips that might [...]

MIT Technology Review: Social Networking is not a business*

With no shortage of traffic on Social Networking sites everyone and their brother are trying to figure out a way to monetize it social media.  In this article by the MIT Technology Review they go in depth with facts and figures of sites and pundants with projections.  I tend to look at social media more [...]

Microsoft Interview with 2 thought leaders in Digital Identity

Have you ever wondered if keeping track of all of the User ID’s and passwords was something that would get any easier?  But who would take on this type of a digital identity project?  They would have to already be a large player in the online space for one.  In the offline world, did you [...]

America Asleep at the Wheel – Toyota 8X Bigger than Ford GM Combined

Hey teamsters how is life going now?  You’ve negoitated the US Auto Industry almost right out of business.  Or is it the fault of the executives in Detroit?   This is not about blame, but let’s start working together or we will only have foreign owned plants here in the USA.  How much more of this are [...]