One of the biggest drivers of bandwidth on the network today is multimedia. While the consumer market often moves first to take advantage of new technologies in this space, there are key learnings that we can take away as we think about enterprise strategy. Web media guru Liz Shannon Miller recently asked her GigaOm audience “Is Facebook the way to go for new web originals?” My vote is yes, as the Facebook API allows content creators to know more about who their audience is than they have ever been able to before. In fact, the power of video entertainment will help those who never understood “this Facebook thing” to have their “eureka” moment. More...

While the New York Times has a trademark on the term “All The News That’s Fit To Print,” getting a story printed will be less than half the battle going forward. In the future, getting a story read will be the focus of media outlets. The Washington Post recently released a Facebook application it calls a “social reader.” After using it for a while, it is pretty clear that social reading is the wave of the future. More...

Five years ago, Time Magazine named “You” as its Person of the Year. Shortly thereafter, I started writing an internal blog at Sprint called “CG’s Soapbox.” The blog’s title paid homage to the days when a person would literally grab a wooden box, plop it down on a local street corner and start speaking freely.More...

Folks in the financial industry often talk about a “perfect market.”  What they are referring to is a hypothetical, idealistic state in which both buyers and sellers know all of the information there is to be known about a product and service. In a perfect market, all financial transactions would take place at the true value of the product, service, or commodity.More...