How Does Facebook Make Money

I nice piece from the Business Insider

YouTube Turns 5 Years Old

TechCrunch has a very good and interesting posting on YouTube at 5 years old.

Can you believe they are serving over 2 billion videos a day! As the article points out, that is twice as large an audience as prime time on the three major US TV networks.

Worth a look at Five Years In, YouTube

Facebook and Twitter Changing Business Models

A very interesting post over at Techcrunch

How Facebook and Twitter Are Changing Business Models.

Here is the video from the post...




Enjoy.

How to Do Business Online

I have started a 10 part posting on this issue on my Simply Easier ACORD forms blog.

You can check part 1 out at "How can an independent insurance compete with direct writers online? http://idek.net/1U2 I Part 1 of 10 part blog posting."

Business Moving to Mobile

A post on Mashable today continues to present the cold hard truth that business is moving away from laptops to mobile devices - in this case smart phones.

• "79% of respondents use their smartphones to conduct most business calls, versus an office phone or home phone.
• 34% use a smartphone more than a computer for business. 7% even said they don’t take their laptops with them when they travel for business if they have a smartphone.
• 48% of respondents said that at least two-thirds of their phone communication is via smartphone.
• Smartphones and intimate relationships tied at 40% for the number one thing respondents can’t live without."

 This trend is only going to grow as the computing platform moves from the desktop and internet to mobile. Historically these changes end up with ten times as many devices on the new platform as existed in the previous platform. 


Do you use a smart phone?


Your customers do. How does your web presence appear on a smart phone browser? How does the interactivity work.


These are things that are heading your way faster than any change before.

Five Secrets to Success

The Business Insider had a good phone interview with Google's ex-CIO, Douglas Merrill, over the weekend.

Merrill made a good case for not multi-tasking. As I get older I have more and more problems with single tasking, so I appreciated his thoughts.

Take the time to read the short interview here, but in the mean time, the highlights are...

1. Don't Try to Learn Things - I like the Albert Einstein story
2. Get Stuff Out of Your Head 
3. Never Multi-task
4. Focus on One Thing
5. Don't Confuse Being Neat for Being Organized

Enjoy.

iPad and Touch Technology

This is how easy and intuitive touch technology is...



ReadWriteWEb has a great post on the future - that is 2015.

Their conclusion "And you, with your clickety-clackety keyboard and push-button mouse will be the "old fogie" whining about how you just can't adapt to typing on glass."