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Image by VeVi via FlickrV zadnjem mesecu se je svet nekoliko korenito spremenil. V Washingtonu se ne pogovarjajo preveÄ o bližnjih volitvah, v New Yorku ljudje ne hodijo veÄ na kosila, v San Franciscu investitorji ne razmetavajo z denarjem in evropski voditelji izvajajo usklajene akcije. Vsi pa predvsem ves Äas ponavljajo, da gre za veÄjo finanÄno krizo od velike depresije.
Nedavno sem prebiral pogovore z direktorji najrazliÄnejÅ¡ih storitvenih podjetij v Veliki Britaniji o tem, kako ta depresija vpliva na njihovo poslovanje. Bojda se je pomanjÅ¡alo povpraÅ¡evanje po dostavi sadja v pisarne, zmanjÅ¡ala se je uporaba taksijev in Äistilnic, edino direktor raÄunalniÅ¡kega podjetja za integrirane storitve je bil nasmejan – trenutno si vsi želijo racionalizirati poslovanje in njegova programska reÅ¡itev se prodaja za med.
V silicijevi dolini se zmanjÅ¡ujejo investicije v nadobudne startupe z divjimi idejami, obstojeÄi startupi klestijo stroÅ¡ke z odpuÅ¡Äanjem tretjine zaposlenih, predvsem iz raziskovanj in inovacij. V zakulisju pa njihovi direktorji priznavajo, da jim situacija pravzaprav koristi, ker se lahko brez slabe vesti ‘znebijo’ slabÅ¡ih delavcev in opravijo jesensko ÄiÅ¡Äenje.
Obenem nekateri startupi celo cvetijo – v zadnjih tednih so najbolj vidna podjetja (digg, automattic,…) prejela neverjetno velike investicije. To je znamenje, da skladi tveganega kapitala ‘parkirajo’ razpoložljiv denar v ‘varnejÅ¡e’ naložbe, ki bodo najverjetneje prevedrile depresijo.
Ne le prevedrila, zanesljivo bodo takÅ¡na podjetja iz nje izÅ¡la v bistveno boljÅ¡em položaju kot so danes. Ekonomska depresija je pravzaprav evolucijsko-sanitaren pojav, v katerem odmrejo iz raznih vzrokov neperspektivni organizmi. Kdor prinaÅ¡a pravo vrednost za uporabnike bo vedno uspeÅ¡en, v Äasih depresije pa bo lahko celo izstopil iz brbotajoÄe množice iz zavzel mesto, ki mu pripada. Zdi se, da so nekatere storitve na spletu že dosegle to raven pomembnosti za zahodni svet.
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October 29th, 2008 § Comments Off on Twitter Updates for 2008-10-29 § permalink
October 29th, 2008 § Comments Off on Zemanta rulez! (vanity post) § permalink
Image via WikipediaEvery time I blog with Zemanta I get excited, because it does all the right things for me.
I went to write the previous post with just a simple trail of thought in my mind, spurred by a newsletter in my inbox. Suddenly, I had relevant posts published trough the night sitting in my dashboard, so that I could get a grasp of the context in which I was writing.
Links to all relevant sites, divergent picture to illustrate my point, and boom, everything done easily, first thing in the morning.
After a successful post, I was happy to grab a breakfast. And guess what, when I came back, my post was already linked to from another blogger’s “related articles” section. Amazing!
Zemanta really does help me create a nice post I would never have enhanced with links and pics, and it promotes my blog in the network of users. My perfect companion!
But then again, I might be biased… 🙂
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October 29th, 2008 § § permalink
Image via Wikipedia I got notified about long expected feature of Apps within LinkedIn being released. Exciting!
But, as usual with those guys, it doesn’t work the first time; and looking at some other features they’ve released this year, it’s not going to for some more time.
The first three apps I’ve tried responded:
- problem communicating with server
- undefined
- temporary overloaded
The last one is actually from my friends over at Huddle.net, huge congrats to them, not only for being featured app, but also the only one with articulated damage control.
When clicking on ‘browse more apps’ nothing happens. Doh.When going to my profile I see loads of advertisements for all the apps I haven’t installed and no activity from those that I have. The exception is SixApart, that actually seems to be doing something useful. Thumbs up!
All in all, please LinkedIn, can you take some more time on finishing the job on launch next time?
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October 28th, 2008 § Comments Off on Twitter Updates for 2008-10-28 § permalink
October 28th, 2008 § § permalink
Image via WikipediaAutumn started. More precisely, summer ended, which means lots of businesses and non-commercial associations started working again. Usually, this only meant an increase in traffic on the streets, but this year, it means increase in the FaceBook spam as well.
Following up on my notes on how Twitter hit Slovenia in Spring, it seems FB discovered us as well. Which is actually a great thing, because it’s way easier to organize parties now. The only problem is, that my fellow citizens don’t know that FB friends are not meant for organizations or product.
I will not point at names, but apart from some really personal brands, it only makes sense that those smart web-marketing advisors who are behind this trend pull their clients off the FB and create proper entities that we can be ‘fans’ or ‘members’ of. After all, FB is one of the first social networking platforms that evables us to use it like that and thus fight the spammers.
I hope that anyone responsible reads this and gets it. I hate getting several new friend requests per day from top Slovenian companies. Imagine being ‘a friend of WallMart’ It makes me sick.
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