Two of the best-known names in Silicon Valley have new books out: Charlene Li (twitter: charleneli) and Guy Kawasaki (twitter: guykawasaki). Both fall into socialmedia.biz’s sweet spot, so here are quick reviews. ‘Groundswell’ Groundswell: Winning in a world transformed by social technologies, by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff, is the definitive guide to how businesses […]
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Death watch: tangible media
Social marketing expert Shel Holz begins a Death Watch series on "various media whose death has been widely predicted." He kicks off the series today with a look at the coming decline in tangible media — books, magazines and newspapers — as media continue to flow into digital containers. Let’s take these one at a […]
Day 2 of Web 2.0 Summit: A look at GoodGuide
I’m crashing after Election Night, two days of Web 2.0 Summit with one to go, plus speaking on a panel Saturday in Berkeley at Social Summit 2008. So, today: • Here are a few dozen photos from my Web 2.0 Summit Flickr photo gallery, with many more to come. That’s Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO […]
Web 2.0 Summit Day 1
I’ve been attending the Web 2.0 Summit regularly since it began a few years ago because technology conferences like Web 2.0, TechCrunch 50 and a handful of others are where you’ll get the first glimpse of where the tech revolution is taking media, business, culture and even politics. That was on display Wednesday at the […]
At Digital Hollywood: the evolving media ecosystem
Spoke Monday at Digital Hollywood at the Loews Hotel in Santa Monica, then returned late last night, so missing the next three days of panels and speeches. (Try typing Loews into your iPhone, and it keeps miscorrecting it to Loess. Weird bug.) The topic of our 80-minute panel was "Personalized Media Platforms – Widgets, User […]