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| Announcing Speakers From Social Ad Summit Posted: 13 Aug 2008 12:48 PM CDT I’m happy to announce a great list of speakers for the upcoming Social Ad Summit. We will be announcing more speakers in the coming week but I wanted to provide an update. We just recently began sending out invitations to the event so if you haven’t received one, do not worry, we will be sending them out over the coming week. Also, if you are not sure whether or not you have received one, fill out your information on the Social Ad Summit homepage. Here is an updated list of speakers that will be in attendance:
Also, thanks to the following sponsors who are making this event possible: We are in the process of finalizing speakers and sponsors over the coming week. We will be sure to update this site with more information regarding the conference as it gets closer! |
| Posted: 13 Aug 2008 10:38 AM CDT This afternoon I decided to try out the Evernote application for the iPhone. In the process of installing the application, I had to go through a registration process. As I went through the process, I got to a reCaptcha form as displayed in the screenshot below. Why on earth would an iPhone need to display a captcha form on an iPhone only registration form? This was probably one of the most annoying steps in the registration process. Typing a captcha form on an iPhone is especially annoying. Perhaps that’s because iPhone has a less than intuitive keyboard. Whatever the reason, I’m not quite sure why an application would place this on an iPhone registration form. Have you had this happen to you? While I think that iPhone applications have transformed the mobile industry, I don’t think that all the applications have been developed with the end user in mind. Applications should make it extremely easy to register (if necessary) via a one-click registration method. Is there some type of spam that iPhone applications are subject to that I’m unaware of? Who are these unknown iPhone spammers? |
| The Social Web Economy: Entrepreneur Leaders Posted: 13 Aug 2008 08:56 AM CDT This is a continuation in the series on “The Social Web Economy“ As I said in the last part of this series, “for the most part, developers are not businesspeople.” As such the social web economy turns to entrepreneurs to be the leaders. Just as in the general economy, they are the individuals driving the social web economy forward. They are frequently jacks-of-all-trades and they are willing to do pretty much anything to build a business. I have the utmost respect for entrepreneurs (possibly because I am one myself). Entrepreneurs are involved in pretty much all the activities that start-ups participate in. They make day-to-day business decisions, secure funding, build partnerships and alliances, determine a company’s strategy and are the ones accountable when a company succeeds or fails (failing is what happens most often). I should make a distinction between generic “entrepreneurs” and “entrepreneur leaders”. All members of a start-up are theoretically entrepreneurs. They too are taking a risk by joining a start-up but the entrepreneur leaders are the ones held accountable for the businesses. All members of the social web economy are taking a risk but the largest risk takers are frequently the “entrepreneur leaders”. I’d equate these people to the philosopher kings that Plato speaks of in his book “The Republic”. While there isn’t really one “ruler” per say in this economy, I’d suggest that this could be the most important role. Then again, no single role in any economy is most important. Next post in series “The Social Web Economy: Advertisers” |
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