Sometimes Mondays are the hardest days to blog. I try not to work too much over the weekends so I can engage with my family and not be distracted. Plus, my favorite blogs aren’t breaking much news over the weekend, so it’s harder to use them as a springboard for posting ideas. Anyway, here’s what I’m thinking this morning:
1. MyColts.Net will begin pre pre pre beta testing this week - Yep. After nearly 9 months of “hype”, we’re finally getting a chance to test drive the app this week. It’s not fully cooked, but after this week, we hope to release beta passwords to some of our NFL bretheren. Then another week or two down the line, to a a few hundred pre-registered fans…and hopefully, in 90 days or so, we’ll be off and running - FINALLY!
This weekend I’ll be headed to Austin, TX for the South by Southwest Interactive Conference. I’ll be seeing colleagues from 10 or 12 other NFL teams down there. We’ll be discussing ways to share knowledge, and progress more quickly on a host of issues…and we’ll be showing them our new app in hopes that a few of them will join us on our social net adventure!
2. Social URL seeks to connect social nets (I got this from Mashable) - there has been a lot of conjecture lately about how the proliferation of social nets will play out. Will people maintain multiple accounts across multiple nets? Or will all that maintenance prove too much work and allow the early leaders (i.e. Myspace, Linked In) to control the markets? Social URL wants the answer to be “both”. It’s service seeks to allow
3. CISCO buys Tribe.net - another social network (from Paidcontent.org). This on the heels of CISCO’s purchase of Five Across.
Paidcontent gives some juicy quotes from Ning’s, Mark Andreessen, who questions whether or not Cisco can handle the truth when it comes to integrating disparate social network systems. According to Zimbio’s, Danny Khatib, CISCO is not dumb. CISCO is merely positioning itself to add front end tools to its hardware as the company positions itself for the future of Internet TV. This reminds me a bit of what Don Tapscott predicts in his book, Wikinomics. Companies, like CISCO, changing business models as they realize that servers and operating systems are giving way to customer experience as the main drivers in the value chain.
4. And speaking of Internet TV - Joost looks kind of interesting. Someone sent me this link last week. I haven’t checked it out yet, but the idea of watching TV via Internet with no downloads is pretty sexy.
5. March Madness on demand - how could we not mention the dance? I didn’t buy this service last year, but I understand it worked well, and this year looks like CBS is adding even more spice to its online lineup. Looks like our corporate Internet connection is going to be even slower this March!
