Author Archives: J.J.
Cable News is Screwed
January 15, 2009 – 3:05 pm
So observed Thomas Edwards in the aftermath of the Hudson River plane crash, when timeliness of information about the crash on Twitter blew away what cable news outlets could provide.
Blog Design in the Twitter Age
January 15, 2009 – 12:06 am
A recent post on Mashable presented “10 ways Twitter Will Change Blog Design in 2009.” Twitter is a microblogging service that…oh, forget it. Point is that though Twitter approached mainstream status as a communication medium in 2008, but still doesn’t replace the “online homebase” that one’s blog site can be, especially when served up using [...]
2009 MacWorld Keynote – A wasted morning
January 9, 2009 – 8:49 am
As Phil Schiller told David Pogue, having a blockbuster keynote every January at MacWorld just isn’t something that Apple can keep up. But that doesn’t mean that I didn’t follow what Engadget was live blogging on Tuesday morning hoping to hear about a revised MacMini and what’s in store for the iPhone. But sadly, Apple [...]
2009 Gadget Daydreaming
January 5, 2009 – 10:58 am
If you’re like me and fond of the tech gadgets that fill your life, one of the treats of the new year is that it starts off with a bang. Both MacWorld and the Consumer Electronics Show take place in the first full week of January. For me, it makes for a good time to [...]
Track key phrases on your Intelligence Dashboards
December 4, 2008 – 4:37 pm
If you’ve been following this series from the beginning, you should be getting pretty comfortable adding RSS feeds to track online activity regarding your company and your competitors with your intelligence dashboards. The wash-rinse-repeat method of searching for a text string in Google Blog Search, finding the RSS link, and adding it into NetVibes is [...]
Surfing Material
December 3, 2008 – 11:17 am
Here’s a few items I’ve found on the web this past week that I thought you should check out. Tim O’Reilly on Why I Love Twitter – Great post from a great thinker on the web and emerging media The Beginners Guide to Promoting Your Blog by Jason Falls – if you’re new to blogging [...]
Intelligence Dashboard: Monitor your competitors
December 2, 2008 – 3:29 pm
Apologies for the delay in the next post on this series about building intelligence dashboards. We’ve been up to our eyeballs in some client work that is due very soon. So far, I’ve posted about how you can use RSS and some other tools to monitor your own brand (or in the case of this [...]
Giving Thanks
November 26, 2008 – 2:50 pm
Client deliverables have prevented me from doing much blogging in recent weeks. Which is a bummer, but I was on a roll with the series I was doing on intelligence dashboards. I’ll pick that up again after the holiday weekend. But with the Thanksgiving holiday in mind, I thought I would take some time go [...]
About Yahoo Pipes and using it in an Intelligence Dashboard
November 13, 2008 – 9:45 am
We’re going to spend a little bit of times on Yahoo! Pipes before going forward. As you’ve seen so far, we’ve been doing a lot with RSS in building the intelligence dashboard on NetVibes. But sometimes, the content we want to aggregate isn’t in a feed form like RSS or Atom. That’s where Yahoo Pipes [...]