End of Cable TV?

Cable TV isn’t going anywhere, anytime soon. But with more and more people watching videos online, and now, media boxes streaming content from sites like Hulu, there aren’t many reasons left for keeping the old cable box around.

With signs like these, those of us who make their living online should feel pretty good about their long-term job security.

The Changing Consumer Experience

As a small business owner, you need to understand how technology is changing the customer experience. The folks at Razorfish wrote a report called “FEED: The Razorfish Consumer Experience Report” to help people understand these change and to explore the coming trends.

According to Razorfish, “…today’s consumer is more technically adept, open for experimentation and—most importantly—active than ever before.” Its recommendations include:

1. “Act more like publishers, entertainment companies, or even party planners, than advertisers.”
2. “Create content that engages and ‘reaches’ consumers across channels, provide valuable services over mere advertising, and master an increasingly complicated and expansive content distribution model.”
3. “Rethink the way they create relationships (or conversations) with consumers before it’s too late.”

The report also examines the impact of widgets, RSS feeds, “advertising as a service,” Twitter, online video, iPhones, and new design standards. In short, this is something you should read to stay on top of Web technology and digital content. You can get it before your competitor by clicking here.

Thanks, Guy Kawasaki, for this article.

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The Web & Politics

The social web is playing large part in this election. Here’s a list of some of the top web tools for election ’08.