You don’t have to go to market to be in the marketplace anymore – that’s what Facebook is for. Feel free to browse categories anywhere from collectibles to cars to clothing and accessories. Facebook just launched a revamped version of Marketplace powered by Oodle.
Not only can you sell it for profit but you can […]

A WSJ op ed today predicts that there will be an almost 60 percent contraction in credit card lines. I don’t know whether that number is precisely right but it is clear that banks are sharply reducing the availability of credit card lines. They are doing so in part for very good reasons and they […]

It’s amusing when one kind of dinosaur predicts the demise of another kind of dinosaur. But there you have it with Time Magazine’s list of the 10 most endangered newspapers in America. My hometown rag is number 4 on the list and is losing $1 million a week.
The next few years will likely see […]

Karen Webster’s earlier post, The Aging of Facebook, made the point that social networks aren’t just for kids anymore. In a recent article, it was reported that over the past six months, the largest growing demographic on Facebook was users between 35-54 years olds with a 276.4% growth rate and in a close second were […]

Last week I had the pleasure and privilege of attending and addressing the annual Payments Automation conference of The Association for Work Process Improvement (TAWPI). Like most conferences this year, it was not as broadly attended as it had been in the past. But, in speaking with my friend Debbie Bianucci, President of the […]

Interesting article today about Yelp and the growing dissatisfaction by businesses over the lack of transparency about how its user reviews are posted. The piece raises a bunch of interesting issues. First, and I think completely legitimate, is the confusion over just how user reviews are filtered to appear on the site. The article says […]

Remember when Victor Kiam ran ads about his experience shaving with Remington Electric Razors saying “I liked it so much I bought the company?” Well, I’ve observed a recurring theme amongst blog posts, e-magazines, television interviews and industry conversations about the next generation of banks that brought Kiam’s ad to mind. Why? Bear with me. […]

Hearst is going to introduce its own electronic reader for its newspapers and magazines. There’s part of this idea that is brilliant—in fact Catalyst bloggette Karen Webster and I had even suggested it over a year ago—and there’s part that is simply boneheaded.
The brilliant part is that traditional print media needs a better way […]

I’ve had a number of interesting conversations this week with a variety of people about their take on the future of social networks. My discussions all devolved to one central question: will there be massive consolidation in this area down to the “Big Two” (and which two will that be) or will a thousand flowers […]

I have started to notice links popping up in my mini news feeds posted by my friends who have stuff to sell. Some of this stuff is personal – like used bicycles – but some is related to what these people do for business – like real estate. Today, I noticed that one of […]