http://www.patrickruffini.com/overclocked Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 03 Jun 2007 04:02:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Overclockedhttp://feedburner.google.com People wonder what the next ginormous step in tech is going to be. My money is on inventory search of every store. What needs to happen for this to become reality? RFID. Interoperability between inventory systems. Lots of stuff you're never going to buy online (groceries; the Target run). But ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Overclocked/~3/IrrYkRB-O2I/ http://www.patrickruffini.com/overclocked/2007/06/02/the-next-step-online-inventory-search/ In the past few days, I've grown addicted to Quantcast. As a market research tool, it blows the doors off Alexa. It includes demographic data on a site's visitors, as well as other related sites a visitor is likely to go to and frequency of visits (from addicts to first-time visitors). ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Overclocked/~3/zjWMIQ-OhSU/ http://www.patrickruffini.com/overclocked/2007/04/20/all-hail-quantcast/ Browsing the new Portfolio.com, this ad, from IBM of all places, really caught my eye. Note the richness of content and the choice of long-form, documentary-style video. And it's not even Pointroll (at least I don't think). http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Overclocked/~3/b96Vs-WW_fQ/ http://www.patrickruffini.com/overclocked/2007/04/15/a-well-done-video-banner/ You should not judge the latest Wired magazine by its cover (though that probably can't hurt)... The Clive Thompson-Fred Vogelstein one-two punch on conversational marketing is absolutely game-changing. For anyone wishing to dig deeper on this, Robert Scoble and Shel Israel's Naked Conversations is the fount of all knowledge on ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Overclocked/~3/YTo0yk7-dMk/ http://www.patrickruffini.com/overclocked/2007/03/28/i-read-it-for-the-articles/ Rex Hammock makes the case why no one should freak out over Twitter. I'll happily admit that I'm on the other side of this particular social disconnect. I get the Internet. I get blogs (or at least I think I do). But I fully understand that these are mature / ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Overclocked/~3/xFe2WVgSZyo/ http://www.patrickruffini.com/overclocked/2007/03/24/the-passive-web/ This bit from Mark Zuckerberg's interview in the WSJ is really getting me going: In fact, the success of Facebook may well underscore a major shift in the way we gather information, a trend that Mr. Zuckerberg picked up early on. He describes a class he took at Harvard called ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Overclocked/~3/SzkcqpGXeIk/ http://www.patrickruffini.com/overclocked/2007/03/24/education-20/ Voice your opinion on Web 2.0's most inscrutable technology trend. Is Twitter here to stay or is the flash mob dispersing? Is Twitter...for real?at 14:59 and counting?  pollcode.com free polls http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Overclocked/~3/WKTw_-fRwFc/ http://www.patrickruffini.com/overclocked/2007/03/19/poll-is-twitter-for-real/ Was this just a SXSW phenomenon? Is it sustainable? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Overclocked/~3/xy069HwUTiY/ http://www.patrickruffini.com/overclocked/2007/03/18/twitters-supernova/ Are the first 10. Things aren't quite that dire for this blog. But it's probably no secret that traffic here isn't through the roof. SXSW coverage aside, lately I've been spending most of my time on my political blog and Hugh Hewitt's, not to mention the small matter of my ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Overclocked/~3/5cE1zDfmLa4/ http://www.patrickruffini.com/overclocked/2007/03/15/your-10-most-important-readers/ As promised, here is a rundown of the good folks in the room who blogged our panel yesterday. Roving Sheila: "It was so nice to see a congenial bunch of wonks who were not trying to draw blood and were quite cordial. We need more of that these days." Fixin' ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Overclocked/~3/3JLbPZeyiQA/ http://www.patrickruffini.com/overclocked/2007/03/14/sxswi-coverage-roundup/