Sometimes you come across a new service that holds the promise of what social networking is supposed to be. That’s what happened when came across wissr and subsequently spoke with its founder and CEO, Venkat Gopi. Pronounced ‘wiser,’ wissr aims to be a a trusted micro-market to share recommendations and classifieds with friends, family, and [...]

The power of social networks. That’s what we’ll be discussing at Duarte Design in Mountain View this evening at 6:30 PM, the site of tonight’s Social Media Club San Francisco Silicon Valley chapter. The evening will kick off the evening with a half-hour fireside chat with John Hagel, network effects expert and Director at Deloitte [...]

I’m baaack!   Web 2.0 Expo has arrived and I am the house - or, more specifically, Moscone West in San Francisco – on behalf of my company Eastwick Communications.   I’m already noticing things that are different this year than last: More B2B exhibitors in the Expo Hall than last year, fewer familiar faces on session [...]

I love the line from “Ocean’s Thirteen” when Roman tells Danny and Rusty that they’re “Analog players in a digital world.” I think about it a lot as it relates to the subject of the ‘digital divide’ – how everyday people can be excluded from conversations, especially those among experts, to get at the information [...]