Monthly Archives: September 2010

Open Social Networking

By Mark Lenz I had a great conversation today about social media that inspired me to share my thoughts on social media and its future, an open and distributed network that reflects the intent of the Internet. Everyone on The Business Source team met for an extended lunch to discuss our goals for the next […]

Collective Vision

Collective Vision by Mark Lenz Recently I gave a talk on a few research papers that reflect an idea I like to call collective vision, the process of using the billions of images on the Internet with computer vision algorithms to learn information about our world. The text on Internet web pages has been scoured […]

Marketing Strategy: Buddy Up

By EMILY MALTBY of The Wall Street Journal Mountain News Corp., which tracks snow conditions for ski mountains through its website, got a burst of national exposure without spending a penny last winter when Apple Inc. chose to feature Mountain News’ mobile-phone app on an iPhone television commercial. Before the commercial ran in February 2009, […]

Your Time is Now

Now is the time to invest in your marketing and customer development programs.  With the elections near and all the media hype associated with elections, global politics, terrorism and the troubles our country faces, it’s easy to understand how people can slip into a negative mindset.  I’ve heard that thousands of people in the United […]