Twitter recently turned on the ability to add location information with your tweets, as described on the How To Tweet With Your Location page and rolled out the feature to its users. With the new feature, if a user clicks on location information in a location-aware tweet, a small Google map will be displayed showing the location of origin. As of now, as per this LA Times Blog Post, there is no easy way to find all followers within a specific distance around a user’s current point. Which is …
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March 13th, 2010 | Posted in humour, rants
Having recently asked if Twitter has already turned too many into twits, I was disgusted and appalled to find out that Twitter twitted it’s 10 Billionth Tweet this week. I guess I have my answer. And it scares me. …
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March 13th, 2010 | Posted in Social Media, rants
I was a little annoyed with the chosen focus of a recent article by Mr. Michael G. Jacobides and very annoyed with the terminology chosen in Strategy Tools for a Shifting Landscape (subscription required), a recent article in the Harvard Business Review. While I agree that some companies need to reinvent the way they develop strategy, I’m not sure that strategy should be “defined” by narrative plots, subplots, and characters and definitely convinced that the last thing we want defining corporate strategy is a “playscript”.Business is, well, business. Not playtime. And while it shouldn’t be duller than …
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March 7th, 2010 | Posted in Strategy, rants
This is so AWESOME it’s LEGENDARY!It captures exactly how I feel when I get yet another request from yet another clueless PR firm asking me to blog about something completely unrelated to the focus of Sourcing Innovation, under embargo, and says exactly what I want to say.From now on, when you ask me to cover Economic Freedom Day (WTF is that?), the latest financial results of a Healthcare conglomerate, or the viewpoints of your Olympic sponsor, I’m just going to point you to this (NNSFW). Share This on Linked In …
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March 6th, 2010 | Posted in humour, rants
As my regular readers know, I’m not a big fan of PR. (See Blogger Relations I, II, and III.) Most PR people just waste my time, sending me invitations to blog about charity events, the Miss America contest, or the latest self help book by the guru of the day. And those are the better ones. Others offer to schedule meetings the week after I’ve left the city, or schedule meetings without checking if the person they’re scheduling can actually make it, and then don’t tell me the meeting isn’t happening until the call doesn’t happen, or, in …
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March 6th, 2010 | Posted in About, rants
This morning I told you how year-over-year savings targets are costing you a small fortune right now. Now I’m going to tell you how they cost you a large fortune over the long term. Typically what happens in a company that gets serious about cost reduction as a result of a knee-jerk survival reaction in a recession is that, if they can attract one, they bring in a top-notch CPO. This CPO pulls the weeds out of the organization and replaces them with strong trees, acquires some decent tools (or at least access to some on-demand SaaS …
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March 3rd, 2010 | Posted in Best Practices, Cost Reduction, rants
You heard me right. They’re bloody ridiculous. You might think you’re saving money, but in reality, you’re losing a small fortune. And if you take the time to read this post in its entirely, I’ll show you why.One of the good things about the lingering recession, which is the third significant recession in less than a decade, is that it’s finally convinced many companies that they need a long-term plan for spend control. However, this is also one of the bad things because many companies have made a knee-jerk reaction of just imposing across-the-board year-over-year savings …
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March 3rd, 2010 | Posted in Best Practices, Cost Reduction, rants
I agree with Bing. Please, Tiger, don’t apologize anymore. But it’s not just Tiger I want to stop apologizing. Unless you have a reason to apologize to the public, unless you mean it, and unless you have a way to fix it (if it needs fixin’), please shut the hell up and stop clogging all the news channels with bullcr@p. Most of us are too damn busy to keep up with real news. We don’t need your insincere whining, and the endless media commentary, clogging up the TV, Radio, and Internet news feeds 24 hours …
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February 28th, 2010 | Posted in Miscellaneous, rants
Recently, boingboing ran an article about a Zero rupee note that Indians can slip to corrupt officials who demand bribes. The idea of the note, pictured below, was to shock grafters into honesty. Given all of the recent bribery scandals north and south of the 49th parallel, I’m wondering if we shouldn’t have a $0 Dollar bill that honest businessmen can slip to politicians who demand bribes and kickbacks before awarding contracts. Or are our some of our politicians just too corrupt?Share This on Linked In …
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February 27th, 2010 | Posted in Miscellaneous, rants
After reading this recent article on TechCrunch which asks How Does Compete Get Its Web Traffic Data?, which followed Jason Calcanis’ rant on Why We Should Boycott Comscore, and after noticing that my Alexa, Ranking, and Traffic Estimate Rankings bounce up and down on the string of a yo-yo despite the fact that my traffic has been non-decreasing since day one (as it’s always holding steady if not steadily increasing), I’m starting to wonder. (Quantcast is still pretty good, though sometimes it seems that it’s gone from reporting over 60% to missing slightly over 60%*, but that’s …
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February 26th, 2010 | Posted in Miscellaneous, rants
