http://chriscrosby.net/blog Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:00:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was chatting with a friend of mine this weekend who is currently in search of a new job. He mentioned that, in addition to applying for specific positions, he has his resume posted on Monster.com in hopes that someone searching for his skill-sets will find it. Now, I can ... http://chriscrosby.net/blog/2008/12/03/your-resume-your-blog-your-personal-brand-and-your-next-job/ A big cheers to one of my favorite start-ups, DimDim (see blog post here). They just raised $6M in capital. Nice work guys. It demonstrates what's possible if you come to market with a viable product in the right niche and execute well.  These guys didn't come out of the ... http://chriscrosby.net/blog/2008/07/09/dimdim-gets-6m/ 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 ... http://chriscrosby.net/blog/2008/01/23/google-enters-business-intelligence-market/ About a month ago, I wrote a post on the book "A Billion Bootstraps" and briefly discussed the concept of Microcredit. Since reading the book earlier this year, Amy and I have been actively researching Microcredit and sizing up the best angle and mechanisms for us to get involved. Coincidentally about two weeks ... http://chriscrosby.net/blog/2007/09/05/kivaorg-microcredit-philanthropy-meets-the-web/ 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 ... http://chriscrosby.net/blog/2007/08/09/government-transparency-meet-business-intelligence/ 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 ... http://chriscrosby.net/blog/2007/07/30/google-olitics/ Ok, while most everyone else is busy puking on Cisco's parade for their two recent acquisitions of Social Networking Companies, and wasting otherwise productive time by ranting about why this is such a bad idea. Let's take a look at what's really going on here. Unlike the News Corp-MySpace acquisition, ... http://chriscrosby.net/blog/2007/03/06/cisco-social-networks-the-next-generation-contact-center/ Ok pardon the bad pun in the title, but I couldn't resist... As I mentioned in my first post about politics 2.0, this is not a political blog, however I have taken a certain fascination with how the Internet and the "web 2.0 phenomenon" is going to shape the 2008 ... http://chriscrosby.net/blog/2007/02/09/politics-20-part-2-keep-on-barack-n-me-baby/ "Open Source" and "Software as a Service" (SaaS) are big buzzwords these days. And rightfully so. Both are viable approaches to mitigating the often high cost of software and infrastructure. However, to date these two approaches have largely existed separately. There are a few exceptions to this, such as SugarCRM who offers their software with both the ability to download ... http://chriscrosby.net/blog/2007/02/09/open-source-sharedmanaged-servers-the-new-saas-paradigm/ Yesterday's post about MyWorkLight and unlocking enterprise content via RSS generated a great deal of interest. A couple of the emails I received made me take a step back and look at the Latigent product offering with a fresh set of goggles. As I've mentioned before, BlueVue has an integrated RSS Reader ... http://chriscrosby.net/blog/2007/02/07/aha-moment/