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OK, so the title is a bit overstated, but now that I have your attention: A couple months ago Google [quietly] released a hosted charting API. Albeit it lacks the sex appeal of their big splash products like GMail or Google Docs, it tapped my imagination. The basic concept is that your application passes [...]
Continue Reading →One of the most effective, and ineffective, ways to increase the value of a customer is by upselling additional products or services at the time of a sale. Effectively this can increase your items/revenue per sale and raise your gross margin, ineffectively you can frustrate your customer and send them somewhere else. Here’s an example [...]
Continue Reading →Government Transparency is almost as big a buzzword as Web 2.0 lately. And for that matter, you would think the two would go hand-and-hand. With all of the killer technology available in our information age, one would think that it should be relatively straight forward to get a picture of what our government does in return for our tax dollars [...]
Continue Reading →The blogoshere and news headlines are a blaze lately with articles on “Politics 2.0” and candidates harnessing the Internet and social networks to gain wider exposure and raise money. But what if you’re not a candidate or PAC and you want to influence a campaign? Or make your voice heard to other voters about an [...]
Continue Reading →I’ve been contemplating lately some hypothetical mergers and acquisitions that could make the summer months a little more interesting for us all and for Wall Street. I think the market is ripe for innovation and with the right combinations of companies and products things could get really exciting. I’ve come up with several that I’ll be talking [...]
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