JG etc.

Chris Brogan was nice enough to talk with me in a post entitled, American Express is OPEN around one of the projects that we are currently working on, The OPEN Forum Blog. It is always fun to see a project get interest and recognition among your peers. {Definitely beats traditional banner ads and behavioral targeting.} [...]

Looking for your feedback; what do you think of this 300X250 video execution?
It contains:
- a video player that redraws all six of the winning graffitis from the ReGeneration Contest. Currently runs on auto-play but could also be a click to play.
- At the top it pulls in the RSS feed from the latest post [...]

Try to put it out, but it is a growing flame.
“In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.” - [...]

There are good conversations being had around data portability and companies leveraging clouds to create their own, er, clouds.
The idea of creating an extensible social network is not new, but more than ever I think there are tools to harness this data and create new communities built on people’s prior connections and networks. For [...]

conversations your customers have about your product/service… And increasingly those conversations are mediated via the Web.
That and “Emails are opportunities!” are probably the two most used phrases with my working hours lately.
Why do I bring this up?
For that first phrase. Awesome, awesome site put together by a friend, Noah Brier, called Brand [...]

Via 37 signals:

- If communication can fail, it will.
- If a message can be understood in different ways, it will be understood in just that way which does the most harm.
- There is always somebody who knows better than you what you meant by your message.
- The more communication there is, the more difficult [...]