When solo developer Peldi Guilizzoni launched web design mock-up tool Balsamiq in July, he promised to disclose his revenues, reports ReadWriteWeb. He has just announced he has hit $100,000 in revenue in the last five months, with revenue on a very significant uptrend. I am a big believer in business transparency, absolutely for public companies, […]
The Australian event industry is quickly getting better from what was until recently a very low base. There are more quality events than ever. A few months ago I was planning to run an Enterprise Social Network Strategy event in early December. Then I found out that a very similar high-quality event was already set […]
My brother Graham Dawson moved to Sydney at the beginning of this year. It’s been great to have him around, not least to tap his tech expertise! Graham launched his first iPhone app on Sunday, and it’s already selling extremely well. It’s aimed at the Australian market and provides weather forecasts, detailed current weather and […]
This Thursday November 5 at 11am US Pacific Time I’ll be doing the keynote for a webcast on Creating Business Value from Web 2.0, targeted to the manufacturing sector. Webcast viewing is free with registration. The description of my presentation is: Creating Business Value from Web 2.0 Business technology is being transformed. Web 2.0-style technologies […]
For my keynote at the Vision 2020 Financial Services conference last month in Mumbai I prepared some ‘quick and dirty’ scenarios for the global financial services industry landscape in 2020 from a technology perspective. Below is an overview of the content I used in my presentation. The complete slide deck from my keynote is also […]
The current issue of MIS magazine Australia has an excellent feature on Corporate Web 2.0 titled Meetings of 2.0 Minds, introduced with the words: The social communication tools of the web are making their irrevocably into today’s enterprise. The piece begins with the example of how Bond University conducted an audit of use of Web […]
A little while ago I announced that Future Exploration Network’s extraordinary Chief Futurist, Richard Watson, had released his book Future Files: A History of the Next 50 Years, including a few excerpts. Since then it has sold at a giddying pace, selling out in Australia, and has now been launched in 10 editions worldwide, including […]
The Guardian is now providing full-text RSS feeds. Let’s dig into why this is important, and an indicator of one of the broadest shifts happening in the information landscape. Over the last few years RSS has shifted from a geek-thing that required explanation, to the point where most people have an RSS reader of some […]
A very interesting article in the Guardian today, US military targets social nets, describes new expertise location technologies. Expertise location has always been a central ‘killer app’ first sought by knowledge management and now part of the promised of Web 2.0. It is a fundamental driver in any large organization being able to tap its […]
Today’s New York Times has an interesting article titled Start-Ups Test Dot-Com Business Models, which compares the business models of Twitter and Yammer (a recent start-up focusing on business micro-blogging that I wrote about in a recent review of the space). It says that Yammer, while a tiny fraction of the size of Twitter, is […]
