Awakened Voice

Everyone needs to grow up some time. And it’s high time that some web companies grow up and begin to embrace the fundamentals of business. If they don’t they will be gone. Their many URLs will find their way to the junkyard along with the thousands that visited the old 404 in the sky after [...]

I’ve been thinking. To some those are some pretty scary words but not necessarily as scary as me deciding to tell you what I think. In this case I’ve been thinking about what I call the social media herd.
The social media herd is a group of people who move in concert from web application [...]

I’ve said before that I believe there will be millions of social networks on the web in the future. These networks may consist of just a few people up to thousands of people. If you think about it every family could have a social network. Every sports team could sprout a social network. Fans of [...]

It seems to me that there are certain phases that every social media startup goes through in one form or another. Good or bad, how a company deals with these phases can ultimately determine their future.
Sometimes the issues raised in these phases lead to the development of technologies that push the industry forward. And other [...]