This week the release of Google’s Chrome OS, Chatter from Salesforce.com, Mozilla about speeding up the web and contact lenses with built-in virtual graphics.
- Social Media ROI Examples & Video
A big question out there these days is: What is the ROI of Social Media? Or the ever popular how do I measure the ROI of social media? Often when I get this question it’s appropriate for me to retort: “What’s the ROI of your phone?” Other times it’s not appropriate to respond with this answer, which, if done in the wrong tone, or place, can win you a free punch in the face. Then there are the naysayers that adamantly proclaim, “We aren’t doing social media because there isn’t any ROI.” - Understanding Enterprise 2.0 Tolerances & Scale
Small and medium business needs are typically very different to ‘enterprise’, which in general business usage tends to refer to companies with over one hundred million in revenue. This can also be misleading however since many ‘enterprises’ are in fact federations of autonomous smaller business units. - The Rise Of Networks, The End Of Process
The industrial influence in business management and theory is profound. In essence, for the past hundred years business has been objectified as a machine, divided into various components, like a clock or an electric generator. Components are composed of subcomponents, and so on, until you get down to nuts, bolts, and flywheels. People are — in the industrial scheme of things — gears in the machine, and their purpose is to perform a defined role in the assemblage. - Salesforce.com Unveils Salesforce Chatter – Enterprise Collaboration
Salesforce Chatter application allows any company to collaborate in real time with a secure, private social network for their enterprise - Twitter Doesn’t Create Influence, it Reveals it
You can’t read more than a handful of tweets before someone mentions influence. You also won’t find a Twitter measurement tool out there that doesn’t mention influence. Some may ask how Twitter made so many people influential. It didn’t. I’d agree that it has made some people *more* influential if only because it gave people greater reach, but they had to posses some level of influence potential. (hmm, Influence Potential, a new buzz phrase?) - Is Facebook Getting Uncool for 18-24s?
Others aren't so sure. "That [usage decline] could be for a small percentage of the age group, but I would want to see more evidence to show that that audience is running away from Facebook," said James Kiernan, svp and group client director at MediaVest USA. Kiernan believes much of the decline in the comScore numbers is due to younger people accessing the site via iPhones, BlackBerrys and other portable devices and applications. That skews the numbers, as there isn't a single source that tabulates usage from all available platforms. - Contact lenses to get built-in virtual graphics
A contact lens that harvests radio waves to power an LED is paving the way for a new kind of display. The lens is a prototype of a device that could display information beamed from a mobile device. Realising that display size is increasingly a constraint in mobile devices, Babak Parviz at the University of Washington, in Seattle, hit on the idea of projecting images into the eye from a contact lens. One of the limitations of current head-up displays is their limited field of view. A contact lens display can have a much wider field of view. "Our hope is to create images that effectively float in front of the user perhaps 50 cm to 1 m away," says Parviz. - A faster web with Resource Packages – Mozilla suggestion to have just one HTTP request
One of the most common problem on the web is slow web sites, wasting the time of end users. Now, perhaps, Mozilla has come up with a solution for this, which will be applicable for all web browser vendors. - Google Wave for Project Management
If you are wondering what Google Wave brings to the Project Management world you may want to first start by reading a Wave that has been ongoing now for quite a while (I have been following & contributing to it for at least the last 6 weeks) titled Google Wave for Project Management. - About Half in U.S. Would Pay for Online News, Study Finds
Americans, it turns out, are less willing than people in many other Western countries to pay for their online news, according to a new study by the Boston Consulting Group. Among regular Internet users in the United States, 48 percent said in the survey, conducted in October, that they would pay to read news online, including on mobile devices. That result tied with Britain for the lowest figure among nine countries where Boston Consulting commissioned surveys. In several Western European countries, more than 60 percent said they would pay.
Light reading:
- Chrome OS Virtual Machine Build Ready for Your Testing [Downloads]
- Google's Chrome OS revealed — with video!
- Google Is Keeping Chrome OS Simple. Maybe Too Simple.
- Chrome OS Still A Year Away – Screenshots and First Overview
- What ChromeOS Means For Netbooks And Why Microsoft Needs To Be Scared
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Rick Mans is a social media evangelist within Capgemini. You can follow and connect with him via Twitter or Delicious
