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[Review] Enterprise Social Technology

YoungUpstarts

As someone who is always interested at how social technologies can be harnessed for business and enterprise use, I can’t recommend Scott Klososky’s new book “ Enterprise Social Technology: Helping Organizations Harness the Power of Social Media, Social Networking, Social Relevance &# quite enough. Such a cool idea!

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Will the future of UI design turn us all into cyborgs?

The Next Web

Chong and Jacky Li are product designers at Pivotal Labs. We are finally seeing new forms of portable computing devices – multitouch surfaces, powerful and lightweight mobile devices, and now the emerging market of wearable technology. Flash forward to the late 2000s – or as Apple describes it, the “Post-PC era.”

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5 common mistakes to avoid in mobile commerce

The Next Web

With 66 percent of mobile shoppers failing to complete a transaction due to obstacles presented during checkout, removing barriers from the checkout process is a key function to increasing mobile conversions. Love or hate our mobile-crazed culture, you can’t deny the opportunity that this technology has to offer.

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Selecting a Web Development Company

SoCal CTO

Different firms will have very different skill sets: Do you need user interface design? Graphic design? Are there particular technologies or platforms involved? You will find firms that are design/interface heavy and light on development. You will find firms that are design/interface heavy and light on development.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Both Sides of the Table

We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. some came from our customer service, some were to improve performance / scalability from tech ops, some were bug fixes, etc.)

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

Exec Summary: Most companies (98+%) in the world (even tech startups) should be very profit focused. If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. Fast early growth in a market is often eroded when competition gets fierce and prices are forced down due to competition.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

I’m a huge fan of William and his writing as you can see from my review of his book Avogadro Corp. There seem to be two schools of thought on how to predict the future of information technology: looking at software or looking at hardware. A big technical challenge we studied was piping streaming video over networks.