Since my last post I’ve been happily bustin’ butt for Cisco, writing and editing pages across their massive website. What a great crew of pros. If you ever get the chance to hire an ex-Cisco hotshot, give ‘em extra consideration.
One of my clients wants their salespeople to be able to walk around any city and use their iPhones to see which companies are nearby.
Hoover’s Near Here app for the iPhone is a mobile, location-aware database of companies and contacts, anywhere you go. Read the write-up by the developers who designed the app itself at Mutual Mobile.
This new iPhone app from Hoover’s is full of promise, even for a $20 app. I just downloaded it and within one minute found the name of my wife’s boss.
Gang,
I know, there’s a hotter market for day-old doughnuts than for day-old news. But just scan the headlines below: major mobile marketplace eruptions that have occurred this week. We are entering an astounding time of “mobile value growth” in all corners.
All local retailers, read this one: Up-to-the-second IDs & stats on your in-store visitors, coming from Foursquare.
Thanks to Mashable’s Jennifer Van Grove:
At the end of the day, the business features further contribute to Foursquare changing the world as we know it.
Thanks to Mashable’s Samuel Axon
Thanks to Mashable’s Christina Warren
Thanks to Mashable’s Barb Dybwad
Thanks to the reason I started reading Mashable The Social Media Guide in the first place, their Co-Editor Ben Parr
Google launched the Google Apps Marketplace Wednesday night. This could become a significant enterprise app ecosystem connecting desktop and mobile. The evening of the launch, I counted just nine Financial apps. Hah. Just wait.
Thanks to Mashable’s Christina Warren
Thanks to Mashable’s Features Editor Josh Catone
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Appboy is a social outlet for mobile app lovers. Got a great app or a unique idea? Get feedback and use our community to get the word out.
Thanks to Mashable’s Christina Warren for her Appboy update coverage.
Here are two good graphics showing the current desktop and mobile market size. Scroll down in each story to catch the graphic:
Mashable: The State of the Internet in One Giant Infographic
GIGAOM: Updated: The Apple App Store Economy
“More than half of the Fortune 100 companies are using Twitter for customer service, recruiting employees, blasting news and announcing promotions, according to the study by public relations firm Burson-Marsteller and its digital-media unit, Proof.”
USA TODAY Social media like Twitter change customer service Technology 11/18/2009
Here’s a snapshot of the current social media traffic across the major sites. Whew. Clients who ignore social media are missing all of this.
Here’s a quick way to search and scan a bunch of news sites at once, all on one screen.
If you haven’t seen this, it’s worth a click. For example, here are the latest Silicon Valley headlines:
http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/search?q=Silicon+Valley
Questions answered: About Google Fast Flip
–Jon
Here’s a quick way to see the “when” and “how much” of search trends: Google trends labs. You can separate several search terms by commas and see how they compare. This result appears to show that searches for “cloud computing” have recently overtaken searches for “virtualization.” Plug in your favorite topics and see which wins. –Jon
How about another Context and Perspective tool?
I’m always interested in how accurately people can predict/guess the future. I think technologists are certainly better at it than economists.
But looking back at this Sequoia Capital 56-slide presentation from October 2008, I’m impressed. It’s a quick-click online slide set, about 2 minutes to scan. You’ll see all the major forces that have kicked at us over the last year. It would have been hard to believe when it was originally delivered.
Warning: This Sequoia Capital slide show, brought to you by Techcrunch.com, can raise your blood pressure and make your heart race. But keep in mind: Technology is one of the cures for all of this. And that’s our job. This is just a list our enemies and challenges, out on the table. –Jon
Mashup Dashboards of all types on all subjects are rolling out through the developers. (The Dashboard Spy has a thousand examples.)
But here’s one to look at, online at Russell Investments: What’s the State of the Economy? You can spend one minute there and learn a lot from this dashboard.
It’s designed to help financial advisors explain what direction the economy is headed, displaying several economic and market indicators on one page. Each indicator shows a Typical and Extreme range, where we are now, and which direction we are headed. I optimistically interpret it to say we’re in an early stage of Recovery.
Actually, the Recovery – in its early, ill-defined, wild-west phase – is my favorite part of the regular Crash/Burn/Recover/Reinvent cycle. This is my fifth cycle in high tech, as depicted in this Business Cycle Index chart (also from Russell Investments). It’s fascinating, you can see the pattern. Look how steep the recovery rises are. Sit tight and hold on. It’s comin’.
