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Feedly Progress Report:  Not So Good

Feedly Progress Report: Not So Good

By Bob Warfield on August 30, 2013

I’ve been using Feedly since the demise of Google Reader and wanted to give a progress report on how that’s going.  Not that you won’t have already had to make a decision on an alternate, but perhaps this will be helpful for Feedly if not everyone else. First the good news:  Feedly is great as […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged customer service, Feedly, Google News, Google Reader, Mobile device, RSS | 1 Response

It’s In Google’s Best Interest to Kill Marketing Channels They Don’t Own

It’s In Google’s Best Interest to Kill Marketing Channels They Don’t Own

By Bob Warfield on July 23, 2013

The folks at MailChimp recently did an article that analyzed open rates for emails and how they were affected by Google’s new Gmail tabbed user interface.  There’s not a huge amount of data yet, but there are 3 consecutive weeks of reduced open rates in the wake of the new tabbed interface.  Here’s the graph […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged gmail, google, Google Reader, MailChimp, marketing, strategy | 2 Responses

Don’t Bury the Map With the Treasure:  Thin Clients Trump Apps in Walled Gardens

Don’t Bury the Map With the Treasure: Thin Clients Trump Apps in Walled Gardens

By Bob Warfield on July 9, 2013

One of the questions every SaaS company will have to be able to answer for their customers is, “What happens if you go under?”  It’s actually a fascinating question, and one you have a chance as a vendor to think about and turn to your advantage.  For example, one of my SaaS ventures was Helpstream. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged apple, Cloud, Feedly, google, Google Reader, Helpstream, iOS, iPad, SaaS, Safari, service, strategy | 4 Responses

What If You Fired Your 8 Million Most Influential Users?

What If You Fired Your 8 Million Most Influential Users?

By Bob Warfield on June 20, 2013

What if you were running a big web business and you fired your 8 million most influential users? Would that be a smart thing to do?  Would your shareholders be happy?  Would your board be happy?  What possible reason could you have to do such a thing?  What perceived advantage would offset the cost of […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Andrew Chen, Facebook, google, Google Reader, marketing, RSS, Seth Godin, strategy | 1 Response

Google’s Story That Google Reader Traffic Declined Is BS When You Put That Traffic Alongside Google+

Google’s Story That Google Reader Traffic Declined Is BS When You Put That Traffic Alongside Google+

By Bob Warfield on March 15, 2013

It wasn’t hard to read between the lines–I’ve been calling Google’s decision to drop Google Reader a Microsoft-esque decision made to try to push customers to their other products, and especially to Google+.  Google’s story that it needed to be done because of declining traffic is BS when you look at the real numbers.  Buzz […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged BuzzFeed, google, Google Reader, microsoft, RSS

6 Ways The Pundits Are Dazed and Confused About Google Reader and RSS

6 Ways The Pundits Are Dazed and Confused About Google Reader and RSS

By Bob Warfield on March 14, 2013

One of the you-betcha-surefire Pundit strategies is that when something is getting a lot of heat, like the current flap over Google dropping Google Reader, you can get a lot of attention by disagreeing with the crowd.  You want to do so in the most colorful possible way, in fact.  It’s a common form of […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Dave Winer, Flipboard, google, Google Reader, River of News, RSS, Twitter, user interface, Web 2.0

Google, If You Think I’ll Move From Reader to Another Google Product, Drop Dead

Google, If You Think I’ll Move From Reader to Another Google Product, Drop Dead

By Bob Warfield on March 13, 2013

Just got the news that Google Reader will be turned off July 1.  Realistically, I should’ve moved after the first time they brain-damaged it and I railed about it, but I stupidly stuck to it.  Now I’m sorry. I’m not the only one, Om Malik says it is his second most used Google application after Gmail. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Feedly, google, Google Reader, Netvibes, strategy, wordpress | 5 Responses

How Not to Do a Newsletter

How Not to Do a Newsletter

By Basab Pradhan on March 17, 2011

I get most of my reading done via twitter. I follow a bunch of smart people who essentially filter all that’s out there to what is truly worthy of reading. My feed reader is getting less and less airtime nowadays. But there are some bloggers who don’t tweet their posts so one has to go […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Gigaom, Google Reader, marketing, Newsletter, Wall Street Journal, WSJ

Shhhh… PKI Wiki Is Up

Shhhh… PKI Wiki Is Up

By Sandy Kemsley on February 16, 2011

I’ve been a bit quiet on the Process Knowledge Initiative front lately due to other commitments, and lack of much public-facing progress in spite of the progress that we’d been making internally. That’s about to change, because we have a public wiki up and running for the draft Body of Knowledge, and will officially be […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Atlassian, Body of Knowledge, BPM, Business process management, Confluence, Google Reader, Groupware, Jira, modeling, PKBoK, Wiki

Improve Your Blog Reading Signal to Noise Ratio

Improve Your Blog Reading Signal to Noise Ratio

By Bob Warfield on December 26, 2010

Since I subscribe to almost 200 blogs, it’s critical for me to keep a high signal to noise ratio.  In other words, the posts that show up in my reader need to be things I really want to read.  If I’m spending all my time separating the wheat from the chaff, then I’m wasting my […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged blogging, google, Google Reader, ReadWriteWeb, RSS, signal to noise ratio, strategy, TechCrunch, TechMeme, Twitter, Web 2.0

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