In this video: I discuss a characteristic of Services 2.0 - allowing your customers to see the true value of the service you are providing to their company. It forces you to deliver value, encourages you to improve your offering and empowers your customers to be a smarter consumer of your goods.
Everyone is talking about Web 2.0. I think that there is also Services 2.0. Business to business services delivered with web 2.0 technology, people, and process. Aggregating many small customers (under 5 person offices) and filling gaps in their business processes with transactional services provided as they need them. Here is a link to the blog post I refer to in the video evergance blog.
Companies are working to become to plumbing of the Lead Generation Industry, while also helping purchasers understand the true value of the leads and publishers they buy them from. Will people ever buy options on leads?
The season opener for the Chicago Cubs is today on the road. Home open is at Wrigley a week from today. There is always such optimism with Cubs opening day.
Below is a home video I came across today of the 1929 World Series at Wrigley Field. It features the Philadelphia A’s playing our beloved Chicago Cubs.
Here is to hoping Wrigley might host October baseball in 2007.
Time has decided that the Person of the Year is YOU. I could not agree more!
The talking heads on the FOX’s, CNN’s, and MSNBC’s of the world are saying that this is a joke and devalues the Time tradition of naming Person of the Year (it was Man of the Year till 1999). I’ve heard them say that it is a cop out. “How could EVERYONE be Person of the Year?”
Well, I think that Time is spot on. 2006 is the year that people realized that playing field has been leveled. No longer do you need a record contract to have a hit song. No longer do you need to be on Saturday Night Live to have you 4 minute comedy series seen by millions each week. No longer is the video footage on war what has approved for our sensitive eys. These things are all controlled by you. You create the media and you decide what to watch.
I say that Time hit the nail right on the head. We are all witnessing the transfer of power that is taking place in the Information Age. And that power is being transfered to you.
Maybe the talking heads on the FOX’s of the world are concerned and that is why they are calling it a joke.
The new PS3 is hottest thing to hit the streets since the power pad. I thought I’d post a movie about the video game system that made me fake sick from school.
Another sub-20 year old has turned the music industry on its head, but not many people know it yet.
Anthony Volodin, a 20 year old student, has created The Hype Machine. The Hype Machine scans MP3 blogs for people posting messages about bands and songs. It aggregates all the “hype” and then posts them all to pages on The Hype Machine. The site features a media player, playing what is being “hyped.” With the click of a mouse you can buy what you like from Amazon and iTunes. All MP3’s is finds are cached on its servers. Try searching for something. You most likley find it.
Anthony’s concept is so simple. The really good ones are!