Jeremiah Owyang, senior analyst at Forrester Research, wrote a great post a few days back on the technology scalability vs. services in startups. It is often stated that the holy grail of technology startups is to have a highly scalable product while offering minimum human services for maximum scalability. However, as Jeremiah states, [...]

Baynote Product Recommendations enables our customers to more effectively merchandise their products across their entire site. However, many ecommerce vendors invest heavily in their merchandisers to create complimentary and comparative products to increase conversion rates and average order values.
Today I had an enlightening conversation with one such vendor. He spoke highly of his [...]

Mark Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, is widely known for his rivalry with Larry Ellison, but above all he is known for his controversial statement “Software is Dead.” While this might be incredibly zealous, there is some truth to it, but I would like to rephrase this statement: Software as we know it is [...]

CIO Insight recently posted the results of a pretty interesting survey a few weeks back. As you can see the hottest category on the survey is collective intelligence, or as explained: “technologies that gather and present ‘wisdom of the crowds.’” One of the interesting things about the survey is the demographic of those that [...]

Like Baynote, other companies have found ways to use the wisdom of the crowd to fill various holes in the market. Tomorrow night in Palo Alto, go check out this event sponsored by the MIT Club of Northern California.
Here’s a quick description:

In this talk we will explore, how startups have applied the wisdom of [...]