Ready For Facebook?

Ahead of Facebook’s IPO, I thought I’d republish two of the Forbes posts I posted over the last year covering Facebook.

I hope these can help – feel free to go straight to Forbes.com to get the full articles and comment!

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Facebook Changes Everything

Facebook is expected to reach 1 billion users this summer and the company is assumed to be getting ready for a $100B IPO.  While it’s hard to imagine that, 10 years ago, the social network didn’t exist, its growth (from 1 million to 1 billion users in 8 years) is not only a sign of what “has been” but more importantly of what “will be” in the tech industry over the next 10 years.

 

Video: Social Media As Strategy

More @ http://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2012/01/19/facebook-changes-everything/

 

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Why LinkedIn is More Valuable than Facebook

Investors started the year excited, then disappointed, about the potential of a Facebook IPO and a $50B valuation.   But fortunately, the upcoming LinkedIn IPO and its $2B valuation gives them an opportunity to get in the game and cash in on the much talked-about “social network” trend.

The LinkedIn IPO is indeed exciting, but if you are an executive, you should spend more than just your money on LinkedIn – you should spend time understanding how the social network works, and how its model can help you build better applications for your organization.

LinkedIn offers many practices that organizations should follow when building internal applications.  In this post, I’ll focus on two: how LinkedIn thinks about productivity, and its approach to data.

“Time In App”

Most productivity applications measure success by the number of hours its users spend in it.  For example, we know that Facebook represents about 12% of your internet time.  According to Nielsen Research, internet users spend close to 5X more time on Facebook than YouTube.  So Facebook wins, right?  Wrong!  While “time in app” might appear to be a great gauge for stickiness, LinkedIn’s CEO argues that it might not be the right measurement (see Jeff Wiener’s explanation at the O’Reilly Web 2.0 conference here). 

While Facebook’s drive towards advertising dollars might justify the importance of the ‘time in app’ metric (you might have noticed Facebook’s recent advertising addition to your photos?) – LinkedIn focuses on productivity for its members (LinkedIn makes money via ads, but member services and enterprise hiring services are also part of its business model). 

More @ http://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2011/02/16/why-linkedin-is-more-valuable-than-facebook/

 

Half A Million Views And Increasing… Is This Show Hot Or What?

We’re more than a little thrilled to give you a quick recap of our successful first season of Bizintelligence TV.  In this video, I highlight just a few of the many great episodes we had the pleasure of bringing to you…. watch the video all the way through and catch some bloopers we collected along the way….:)

http://youtu.be/MpsPNo569AI

Preview of our Twitter Analytics Solution (via @Scobleizer)

I had the honor of being interviewed by Robert Scoble on the work our team has done to let anyone get access to great analytics from twitter. Check it out below and let us know what you think!

 

 

What Does MC Hammer Have To Do With Analytics?

In this special episode of BITV, I share thoughts on the upcoming trends in information management and their adoption into mainstream thinking.

I talk about Cloud, Social Media and Data Mashups….and of course M.C. Hammer!

Gary Wolf from the Quantified Self…on Personal Analytics

You probably did not notice if your right eye twitched this morning. And you might not have attached any meaning to it, if you did notice. However, Gary Wolf, a contributing editor for Wired Magazine, sees such subtle observations as a pathway to self-illumination.

“It turns out involuntary movement of the muscles in your face is associated with moods and emotions,” he says. “Awareness of your facial muscles gives you an access point to your moods and emotions you wouldn’t otherwise have.”

 

Your #1 Resource is your Time -> Manage it through better Analytics!

Your Time is YOUR #1 Resource! So, manage it better….and use Analytics and Data to do so. In this relaxed, and *I hope* funny video, we talk about a great software product we just released and that you can take advantage of to manage your time better!

John Hollinger, the ultimate entrepreneur of Basketball Analytics!

Starting as a hobby, John Hollinger parlayed his love of sports and analytics into a career in sports analytics, and has had a major influence on basketball analytics.

One of his major contributions is the Player Efficiency Rating (PER), which takes many different factors and parlays it into a single number.

Here, John shares his passion for sports analytics and breaks down the difference between perceived performance and measured performance into a new methodology: Game Score.

 

Talking Soccer, Data and Analytics with the President!

Sunil Gulati is the current president of the United States Soccer Federation and an economics professor at Columbia University. In this video we talk about the role of analytics in soccer today and in the future.

Bringing Down the House with Jeff Ma!

Jeff won millions-and inspired the Hollywood film 21-when he masterminded a card counting scheme involving his fellow MIT classmates and took on Vegas. Ma has now parlayed his love for analytics, gambling and sports into a career as an analyst, author and speaker.  In this video we talk about what blackjack can teach us about predictive analytics and business intelligence. Can you take on the house?

Malcolm Gladwell and Analytics

Malcolm Gladwell is a legend – you’ve probably read some of his books such as “Blink”, “Tipping Point” or “Outliers”.  In this interview, we talk about the famous 10,000 hour rule and how great decisions can be made.