Swapping featured in Entrepreneur’s Daily Dose today. As I always say, swapping is a very natural behavior. People have been swapping things for thousands of years. The evolution of the social web and matching technology enables the expansion of swapping on the Internet. Great to see Swaptree front and center in this post on Entrepreneur. [...]
A couple of years ago I got introduced to this new web site called DailyGrommet. The products were interesting. The way they were telling the story about the products was cool too wtih video most times featuring the inventor/developer of the product. As I looked more deeply the integration with social media was very compelling [...]
The story of Steven Ortiz, who used the timeless concept of “swapping” to get a Porsche, was the feature story on CBS Early Show this morning. Rebecca Jarvis reported on the very cool story.
Swapping has always been a great way to swap things you have for things you want. Swaptree was featured as one of the [...]
Rachel Botsman is the co-author of the upcoming book What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption (Harper Business, October 2010). Rachel has authored this book after years of research. Rachel was featured recenthly at TED where she spoke on the power of collaboration and sharing through current and emerging technologies, and on how [...]
Great web sites are all about the user experience.
Swapping on the web must be all about the user experience. We must strive to add value to that simple and safe swapping opportunity that you have with your family and friends, while adding the scale of Amazon and networking of Facebook. It is a tall [...]
Over the years I have loved magazines. It is a wonderful media format. Short stories. Great photos. At it’s apex it seemed the magazine segment of the media industry covered virtually every niche.
A combination of the Internet syphoning audience. Where the audience goes so goes the advertisers. The Internet brings performance based ads as well..not [...]
Swapping is a form of commerce that has gone on since the dawn of time. People had needs – other people had things. With no currencies the swap was the exchange. This still exists today across the globe. The root of swapping is to fulfill a need or want. Generally the enabler for swapping is [...]
June is New England Innovation month.
We were stacked up last week with many events from MITX Awards to TechStars Demo Night to Angel Boot Camp and more.
The fun continues in the week ahead:
JUNE 7: Cambridge, MA – Mobile Monday Boston
JUNE 9: Providence, RI – Providence Geeks Dinner
JUNE 10–12: Chatham, MA – Convergence: The Life [...]
eCommerce on the Internet has changed the world. The ease of access to goods. Integration of product info, reviews and ratings. With the web now enabling social connections through Facebook, Twitter and other sites, we are at the advent of another wave of growth through Social Commerce (shopping).
Social Commerce is going to unite the best [...]
MITX Awards night in Boston is a great way to showcase our regions best emerging technology companies. I am delighted that two companies that I am involved with could win last night: DailyGrommet won the award for “Innovative Business Strategy” and RatePoint won the award for “Social Media”
DailyGrommet is a very cool social commerce company. [...]
