Tired of high tech designs that look hopelessly dated in just a few years? Longing for a more Victorian sensibility? You may need to get up to speed with steampunk, a design movement whose …
Contrary Thinking: Web Apps Suck
Conventional wisdom is that web-based applications are the Next Big Thing. Current apps like Salesforce.com's CRM show that critical business data and processes can be outsourced to third parties and …
10 Things To Do While Rebooting
How frustrated are you when you have to reboot your PC in the middle of the day? A full shutdown and reboot cycle can take a several minutes - instead of staring at your screen watching the icons …
Digg Revolt: Members Gone Wild
Digg's home page is controlled by the votes of its members. This is very Web 2.0, and it works to keep interesting stories visible most of the time. Garbage that achieved popularity through …
Community ROI
The firms I talk to about community building seem to fall into two categories - those that want a Web community right now, and those that question the very value of communities. The latter group is …
Words for the Web
Web marketers face special challenges when they are writing headlines and copy - not only do they have to deal with all of the concerns that print writers contend with in trying to create copy that …
What Will Stop Google?
Little more than a year ago, the search market looked like it might be up for grabs for the first time in years. Microsoft was attacking search with renewed energy, Yahoo was shaking up its effort, …
Why Paying Online Community Volunteers Doesn’t Work
Most web communities are built with lots of help from volunteers - forum moderators, review writers, members who report problems, etc. One of the more common tales of woe told by online community …
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Guy Kawasaki’s Pitch Guide
Last week I did a couple of presentations (on Community Building and Competitive Intelligence) at WebmasterWorld's Pubcon, and caught the opening keynote session by Guy Kawasaki. Guy is a funny and …
