Jim Muttram

Jim Muttram

The advent of the real-time web

Saleforce.com founder Marc Benioff told the Structure 09 conference that technology was inevitably becoming real-time. “Any concept of batch or delay in development or execution, I think, will not be tolerated by customers anymore. Even in development, customers are demanding now that they want to…

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Jim Muttram

Iran reporting tests journalism

This morning's piece in The Observer by Lindsey Hilsum, international editor of Channel 4 News, and Peter Beaumont illustrated perfectly the challenges and dangers of reporting in a user-generated world which Jeff Jarvis outlined so well yesterday. The story reads as if the writers had…

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Jim Muttram

Building the new news archetype

Jeff Jarvis has an interesting post arguing what mainstream media needs to do to meet the challenges of the user-generated world. Using what is happening in Iran as the catalyst he argues that news organisations should concentrate on curation and on trying to verify the…

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Jim Muttram

Interesting thought....

Fred Wilson at 140 Conference Originally uploaded by jonny goldstein. From Fred Wilson at the 140 Conference as caught by Jonny goldstein's brilliant "visual note": conversion is much higher on links passed on through Facebook and Twitter. So, could either give Google's AdWords a run…

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Jim Muttram

Bezos on innovation

Om Malik blogged about Jeff Bezos' talk at the Wired Business Conference in New York and it makes a thought-provoking read. He says the Amazon founder talked about a lot of things covered elsewhere so he chose to focus on what he said about innovation…

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