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Re: Why Green Companies are Destined to Prosper

Jim Peake — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 07:38:20 -0000

With a lot of talk on going green and asking companies to go green finally someone who is taking training to companies to really teach them what they can do on carbon reduction and other profitable green strategies is Eric Woodroof, Phd. Check out www.profitablegreensolutions.biz. Check out the companies in your backyard that are polluting. See www.scorecard.org.

Re: In Times Like These Read The Blogs

Jim Peake — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:09:33 -0000

In times like these some people are accountable (i.e. Eliot Spitzer...about to be) and others aren't (i.e. who has gone to jail for the subprime mess)? With so many smart people on Wall Street how could these big banks get in so much trouble? Greed?

Re: Hyperlocal and SXSW

Jim Peake — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 05:41:08 -0000

I feel your pain of not being in Austin, I for other reasons. So this is why we age going to hold something a little bit different on April 21st. Check out http://blockbustergraffiti.com

Re: Wisdom of the crowds - Can Web 2.0 help predict the future?

Jim Peake — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:30:04 -0000

While the wisdom of crowds has merrit so does asking the crowds what it is that they want and then over delivering to them.

Re: Does Video Twitter Make Sense?

Jim Peake — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 04:27:13 -0000

I was at the http://www.webinnovatorsgroup.com/ conference and I bumped into Tom Boilard and he has created a photo Twitter application with http://moborazzi.com.

Re: Ajay Madhok - CEO, Equals

Jim Peake — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:02:37 -0000

The party line application is getting good reviews....nice job on the interview and the podcast.

http://whatscoolrightnow.blogspot.com/2008/04/e...

Re: Joey Inc

Jim Peake — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:55:31 -0000

thanks for rubbing it it, we just got 6" of snow here in boston last nite

Re: Nice Play by Dell

Jim Peake — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 05:57:56 -0000

If Dell is actually shipping a trialware free unit I am slightly interested to hear their story on why they created this unit, but highly skeptical of Dell. (In my experience, they love imaging their hard drives with trial ware because it is one of ther best ways to create continuity revenue) I could even be part of the reason they are doing so. I have 2 inspiron machines replaced because they came loaded with trialware and removal of them rendered the systems nonfunctional.

I'm now on Dell unit #3 a Latitude D820 which is 6 months old and ready for a complete low level hard drive reformat. This machine is a huge disappointment with lock up's, browser errors, re-boots, slow boots etc. Could be a Microsoft XP issue and don't plan on upgrading to resource hog Vista. I will probably go MAC and get a cheap desktop PC for Windows apps.

Dell customer service has been excellent but their product management people and lack of flexibility of configuring a unit without trialware (at least in the past) has been difficult especially when they said they were shipping units with out trialware, bloat ware etc. I don't trust them.

Re: Microsoft to buy Yahoo: Ray Ozzie roars

Jim Peake — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 09:08:00 -0000

I think that this could be more of a land grab play than anything else. However it is not how much you sell it is how much you keep, and right now Google is pocketing quite a bit of cash.

As segmented traffic becomes more coveted this looks attractive in the long run for gates and co. In the short run there is lots of room for error merging cultures that are drastically different.

Re: My videos from Davos

Jim Peake — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 12:58:04 -0000

Edlemam makes a really valid point, will the advertisers be relevant? (It will take a TON of work for them to be relevant, gone are the dayz of force feeding the consumers with garbarge....well almost) What we are seeing i think is a tectonic shift in media dollars from TV to online. Some estimates are $40 Billion over the next 24 months to online. That so, this is why Microsoft is interested in Yahoo (Media) company. But at the end of the day Yahoo has eyeballs. Eyeballs can be monetized in the right hands.

Re: Martin Sorrell : Going search is like admitting Google won

Jim Peake — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 13:02:44 -0000

Paul: You are right. However what works well for Google much better than all of the agencies combined is that that the sit between customer ==> google ==> seller where before it was customer ==> agency ==> media co. ==> seller. (Hence Google is the single best self serve agency ever created).

What Google has done a really good job at is delivering relevant information. Agencies and media companies help create the demand. Agencies going "search" is like Detroit going Green. Google and Microsoft will become the biggest ad agencies/networks.

If creative is really good can you think of a product you bought from a Superbowl ad over the past 5 years?

Futurist Jacque Fresco says in the future there will be no advertising. Check out Zeitgeist Addendum http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=zeitgeist... and what he says about advertising.

Re: Information Cards gets its own Foundation

Jim Peake — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:18:23 -0000

I just interviewed Mike Jones and Kim Cameron of Microsoft which is on the link above. Most impressive about going to their sites and registering was the experience, especially after I went to the second site. I can imagine a day where I have a half a dozen or so cards in my digital wallet i.e. card for social networking sites, card for shopping, card for publishing and magazine type sites and a card just for blogs. it makes it so much easier.