No matter how long of a history you hold with a person, if asked about your performance in the end they will likely remember not the averages of your work, but the highest of HIghs and the lowest of LOWs you’ve delivered. This post puts the Hi-Low concept of performance into perspective for businesses, employees, and brands.

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Have you ever wondered why Apple and Microsoft have such a big market share difference even though they started at about the same time? How about why Apple’s Intel-based Macs are picking up speed in the last several years? In any new market, including Web 2.0, there are opportunities in developing new platforms and in developing of supporting elements to existing platforms, there are potential competitors and allies. No matter who drives the boat in a new venture, engineers or business people, someone should be watching the surrounding waters at all times [...]

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Ajax, accessibility, Flash, ActionScript 3, and Flex, are familiar to many but well known by few. Here are some tips on the conditions of the web industry, the effects they have on finding quality People 2.0, and some ideas on how to go about identifying good developers [...]

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There is something special about Web 2.0 professionals, especially those who come in from the recent generation: Generation Y. This article takes a deep look in the general tends, motivational factors, and best practices in recruiting and retaining People 2.0 [...]

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The Web may have evolved to a second version, but so have its users. It’s time for those who are targeting Web 2.0 customers to adjust accordingly…

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This year’s Y Combinator Startup School and some of the recent Google Tech Talks shared top of the line advice from the thought leaders in User Experience, Product Development, and Entrepreneurship. After watching the separate presentations over a period of a few weeks, I could not help but to connect the three topics. Those disciplines together shape and the Web 2.0 environment and its current leaders and will more likely than not affect the industry for years to come. This my summary of recurring themes and notes interconnecting the three topics that and I hope will provide inspiration to Entrepreneurs, Intrapreneurs, Marketers, Brand Managers, and Product Leads alike [...]

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Here’s a piece of news: only about 20% of the world’s population speaks English (about 30% or so of web users). And guess how the remaining whooping 70% of web users would be able to read your content? Web translators!
Those useful little tools use the same technology to traverse through web content as some of [...]

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Can you imagine living your life in a world without electricity or modern electronics? How about the acts of doing math, writing, entertaining yourself and your family, cooking, without the centrally supplied tools and utilities of modern life we are used to today? What would you do in case of a war, an adventurous trip [...]

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A great book by Marshall Goldsmith outlines 20 often-unconscious habits that can damage your relationship with colleagues, family, or people that work with you closely. These traits can often also impact careers and opportunities for promotion as they put you in negative light despite hard work, devotion or talents that could make you [...]

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One cannot know everything or be able to read everything at once, but if you really try, you can get pretty damn good and being able to find information fast, from the wrong sources…

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