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The Trend to Part-Timers, Freelancing, and Consultants Over Full-Time Employees 8 Aug 2013 | 11:18 pm
Offshoring, Outsourcing, the switch to freelancers instead of full-time employees, and all of the other ways big business wants to shed expenses at no apparent cost is a trend that’s well underway. S...
It’s In Google’s Best Interest to Kill Marketing Channels They Don’t Own 24 Jul 2013 | 05:59 am
The folks at MailChimp recently did an article that analyzed open rates for emails and how they were affected by Google’s new Gmail tabbed user interface. There’s not a huge amount of data yet, but t...
Don’t Bury the Map With the Treasure: Thin Clients Trump Apps in Walled Gardens 10 Jul 2013 | 09:49 am
One of the questions every SaaS company will have to be able to answer for their customers is, “What happens if you go under?” It’s actually a fascinating question, and one you have a chance as a ven...
What If You Fired Your 8 Million Most Influential Users? 19 Jun 2013 | 10:22 pm
What if you were running a big web business and you fired your 8 million most influential users? Would that be a smart thing to do? Would your shareholders be happy? Would your board be happy? What...
Too Many Would-Be Entrepreneurs Are Thinking About Their Ideas, Companies, and Investors All Wrong 19 Apr 2013 | 11:58 pm
As so often happens, the serendipitous intersection of one too many notes from the same chord in a short time have prompted me to post. In this case, I am seeing a lot of evidence that would-be entre...
Om Malik Boycotting Google Keep Because of Google Reader 21 Mar 2013 | 07:14 am
Om’s boycotting Google Keep, and he’s damned right–every word he wrote. Here’s the money quote for me: It might actually be good, or even better than Evernote. But I still won’t use Keep. You know why...
Google’s Story That Google Reader Traffic Declined Is BS When You Put That Traffic Alongside Google+ 15 Mar 2013 | 05:51 am
It wasn’t hard to read between the lines–I’ve been calling Google’s decision to drop Google Reader a Microsoft-esque decision made to try to push customers to their other products, and especially to G...
6 Ways The Pundits Are Dazed and Confused About Google Reader and RSS 14 Mar 2013 | 09:41 pm
One of the you-betcha-surefire Pundit strategies is that when something is getting a lot of heat, like the current flap over Google dropping Google Reader, you can get a lot of attention by disagreein...
Google, If You Think I’ll Move From Reader to Another Google Product, Drop Dead 14 Mar 2013 | 04:25 am
Just got the news that Google Reader will be turned off July 1. Realistically, I should’ve moved after the first time they brain-damaged it and I railed about it, but I stupidly stuck to it. Now I’m...
Check on Your SaaS Company’s Hosting Provider, Avoid Firehost 25 Feb 2013 | 09:21 pm
My CNCCookbook blog is experiencing it’s second outage so far this month. That’s a cause for visitor unhappiness and potentially lost business. I use Page.ly, because I believe in SaaS services. CN...
