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Facebook Bitten by Hand that Feeds It: Social Network Sued Over Sponsored Stories Ads
Dec 20th
On Friday, a California judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit against Facebook brought by users who believe that displayed ads featuring advertisers their friends “like” violates the state’s Right of Publicity Statute. Although she allowed the case to proceed, Judge Koh dismissed charges that Facebook unjustly enriched itself using sponsored ads. The Plantiffs in the [...]
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Buried in Snowmageddon 2010 Without a Shovel? Crowdsourced Sites Lend a Hand
Dec 27th
Has “snowmageddon” 2010 got you down? Did that snowplow make a wall of snow, ice and grime as tall as your SUV and you don’t have a shovel? Or are you just sick of sitting around the house?
Ushahidi, the crowdmapping tool originally developed to track elections in Kenya, has created two websites for both New York City and Boston to help with the clean-up, dig out stuck vehicles, and assist with impromptu snowball fights.
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In the past, you might have heard of Ushahidi being used for much more grave and serious purposes, such as when it was used to help coordinate emergency aid operations for Haiti earthquake victims.
The website offers a simple form to let users seek or offer help, providing a number of categories from “plows needed” to “cleanup party” to “snowblower available” and more. Simply pin point your location on the map, give it a title and description, and you’re good to go.
Ryan Ozimek, CEO of PICnet and the developer behind both clean-up sites, was also behind a similar effort last February in D.C.. He said that they were able to take the best practices from that site and roll out two sites for New York and Boston “in less than a few hours.”
“After the DC blizzard, we received some outreach from local governments that are looking to have systems readied for neighbor-to-neighbor first-responder type connections after a disaster or crisis,” said Ozimek. “With Ushahidi, any time you want to bring a community together to crowdsource incidents (time x place x activity), you’ll be using the right tool.”
Ozimek says PICnet has also been in talks with a major U.S. newspaper about using Ushahidi to plot the locations and times for non-profit volunteering opportunities, to make it easier for people to volunteer on a “drop-on” basis. The tool would make the connection between those looking to volunteer and those needing volunteers real-time.
So, if you have a car that’s impossibly snowed in or you just want to burn some of that energy that’s built up from being stuck inside for the last 24 hours, just head on over to SnowmageddonCleanUp for both NYC and Boston and see what your fellow city-dwellers have to offer.
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AG to Google: Hand Over Street View Data
Dec 10th
After being stonewalled by Google, Connecticut’s Attorney General and Senator-Elect Richard Blumenthal is now taking legal action to force Google to reveal the data the company’s Street View cars collected off unprotected wireless networks.
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No More Hand Holding: Why Consultants Need to Build Apps
Nov 8th
Dachis Group is a consulting firm. RedMonk is an analyst firm. Both are in the services world, which is dominated by companies that hire lots of people to be account executives, project managers and fill a host of other roles.
What makes these companies a bit different? Both are developing or collaborating on applications with developers and software companies. RedMonk has recently released an analytics tool. This past week, Dachis worked with MindTouch to release an alternative to Basecamp.
Services firms like Dachis and RedMonk are adapting in new ways to the fast-paced development world. It’s not simple but by no means is it as complex as it once was to develop applications. And from our estimations, it will become increasingly important as apps offer increasing business intelligence and the ability to provide self-serve tools any customer can use.
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The Dachis collaboration is a bit different than what RedMonk is providing. Dachis created a series of customizations to the MindTouch platform. MindTouch turned those customizations into product features.
It has also provided Dachis a way to influence the MindTouch core service and the chance to market to the MindTouch customer base. For MindTouch, it provides a new service that it can market to customers.
This signals a changing business climate where:
- Services firms are developing applications.
- New collaboration practices are connecting software companies with consulting companies and each other’s clients.
- Self-serve is becoming more popular. Business intelligence tools mean more of a service firms’s intellectual capital can be deployed as an application for customers to use.
Both Dachis and RedMonk are consulting companies and will most likely remain that way. What’s different is that both are extending what they do by offering a product that supports the services they offer.
The Workforce Dachis product includes a host of features, including a microblogging service, project management capabilities and a business intelligence dashboard.
Bryan Mendell runs the “Collaboratiory Group for Dachis:
“We customized some things from MindTouch and they really liked the customizations, so it became a major influence for the next generation of their “Collaborative Intranet” product offering. They are much more capable than us to provide QA, product support, and all those things. Our CEO had a great example when he said it’s like the Eddie Bauer edition of the Ford Explorer. It’s still an Explorer, just with Eddie Bauer stylings, and Eddie Bauer doesn’t change your oil.”
He added in response to a question about how Dachis uses the platform:
“That’s how it first came about, which is enhancements and additions we made to various existing MindTouch elements. So we use it every day. But of course it’s customized for us. So by the time MindTouch makes it a little more generic, makes sure the code adheres to their development standards, and puts it through their QA process it looks a little different.
We’re just excited to be able to influence their product direction, and contribute back to the community. It’s not a tactic to generate other forms of revenue outside of consulting.”
RedMonk’s service is focused on providing analytics on the developer community. The service is based upon data collected on the RedMonk site and third party data sources.
It’s a real-time analytics tool. Most analyst firms have armies of people who write reports that range in price from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. Few, if any, have cloud-based, real-time research tools for subscribers to the analyst firm’s offerings.
These are offerings we expect to see more of from services firms, especially as products become easier to develop.
It just makes sense. Applications provide a value. People in services firms have a tremendous knowledge base that is often only shared in personal, client engagements.
Ben Kepes a blogger and consultant, agrees: “Services revenue are trending down,” he said on Twitter. “The only option is to productize. Witness CloudSherpas etc…”
CloudSherpas is a good example. The company has migrated 600,000 customers to Google Apps. It has a consulting flavor but is emphasizing app development. They are one of the top rated admin apps in the Google Apps marketplace.
What will become of consulting firms that do not extend into application development? Our guess is they will miss the next wave where business intelligence and collaboration practices extend deeper into the enterprise. And in turn, this will mean self-service, not hand holding, will be the way customers will want to be treated.
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Networks To Google TV: Talk To The Hand
Oct 21st
TV is changing for better or worse. And perhaps sensing that their control over audiences and distribution is further slipping away and that their expensive programming is being reduced to mere “content,” the major broadcast networks are blocking access from Google TV.
According to a story this afternoon in the Wall Street Journal:
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Servicewrap SEO Expert Allegedly Caught With His Hand On Leg Of Client; By … – 1888 Press Release (press release)
Aug 30th
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SEO and PPC work hand in hand – Last Click News
Aug 19th
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Matt Cutts On Hacked Site & Hand Editing Search Results – Search Engine Roundtable (blog)
Jul 26th
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Matt Cutts On Hacked Site & Hand Editing Search Results
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