Monocle magazine is great!
But first, some background story…
In September 2007, I lamented the demise of Business 2.0, probably the favorite magazine of the business/technology tribe. Following this death, I went back to my old flame, Wired Magazine, whom I felt at the time had improved drastically since the dark 1999-2002 period. Recently, I got tired (again) and [...]
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It’s that time of the year when people everywhere reflect on the year that just passed and think about how they can improve their personal and professional life. I’m no different and I’ve used the last few days to think about that. I’ll pass on sharing the personal stuff but [...]
As the year ends, here are, in my humble opinion, the most important news and trends of the year in local search and social media (in no specific order):
The major challenges of the newspaper industry. Declining print readership, challenges with monetizing the Web, user fragmentation, lay-offs, stock value decline, etc. 2008 was a very [...]
In the last couple of weeks, I’ve been reading the various news around the newspaper industry: fundamental reorganizations, large-scale layoffs, difficult collective agreement negotiations. But not all is doom and gloom. According to an MS&L survey, discussed in Advertising Age, “84% of digital influencers go online to find out more about something only after first reading about [...]
We’ve just released a new version of our plugins for Wordpress.
Praized Community v1.6: (download here)
We’ve implemented the Questions & Answers features! Now, any community using our Praized community plug-in can have its own Praized Answers service on its Web site. See it on the Praized blog.
We’ve also added the ability to select the Questions & [...]
Over on the Praized Media Product blog, more details about the award received by my startup at the Boomerang Interactive Awards. Yeah!
In a op-ed column titled “While Detroit Slept“ in the New York Times this morning, Thomas Friedman talks about the US auto industry on the eve of a massive government bailout. He says:
As I think about our bailing out Detroit, I can’t help but reflect on what, in my view, is the most important rule of business [...]
Praized received a surprise trophy last Thursday at the Boomerang Interactive Awards, one of Canada’s most prestigious interactive awards ceremony. The event was held at TOHU Cité des Arts du Cirque. The Boomerang Interactive Awards have been showcasing the best of Quebec’s interactive communications efforts since 1995.
Katherine Melançon, chairman of the jury, said about this [...]
Last night, Sylvain Carle, our co-founder and CTO, was presenting the Praized API to Montreal NewTech attendees at Laika. You can see the video here or here.
The most recent Trendwatching newsletter (sent to me by Eric Baillargeon) covers two trends of note:
Feedback 3.0 which they describe as being “all about companies joining the conversation, if only to get their side of the story in front of the mass audience that now scans reviews. Expect smart companies to be increasingly able (and [...]
Sylvain Carle has a post on “distributed identity” today on his personal blog . As I noted last week in my Web 2.0 communities Trends post, “identity” is one of the key elements of Web 2.0 communities. Recent news (from the last few days in fact) shows that this a very hot topic. Facebook [...]
Click on the logo below. The 2008 Crunchies is an annual competition and award ceremony to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year. The Crunchies is co-hosted by GigaOm, VentureBeat, Silicon Alley Insider, and TechCrunch. This specific award recognizes a company outside the United States. Thanks!
Directly from the Praized product blog, we just announced a cool new functionality: Praized Answers. More details here.
Last Friday, at the Kelsey Group ILM ‘08 conference, I joined a great panel to talk about “Web 2.0 Communities”. Fellow panelists were Dave Galvan, VP Business Development at Topix, Mark Josephson, CEO at Outside.in and Mike Orren, Founder and President at Pegasus News. We talked about what made Web 2.0 communities great and some [...]
Introducing our latest product release: Praized Answers (answers.praized.com). Praized Answers allows anyone to ask a question about local products and services and broadcast it to a selection of social networks (including Facebook, Twitter, Identi.ca, Friendfeed and Ping.fm). Broadcasted questions are accompanied by a short form przd.com URL to allow social media friends to [...]