links for 2009-01-31

Lately, I have seen more and more twitter users protecting their tweets so that only approved followers can read them. This morning I came across a tweet that I wanted to respond to via my RSS feed and when I went to twitter.com it said that the person had protected their tweets. But how so if I saw it in my feed.

1. Move to lower-cost online/SaaS versions of enterprise applications.
2. Use Enterprise 2.0 to capture the knowledge and know-how of employees.
3. Strategically move IT infrastructure to the cloud.
4. Embrace new low-cost models for production such as crowdsourcing.
5. Lower customer service costs by pro-active use of online customer communities.
6. Reduce application development and integration time/expenditures with new platforms and techniques.
7. Open your supply chain to partners on the Web.
8. Overhauling and reinventing paper and digital workflow.

Memcached Tech Talk with Mark Zuckerberg
by Facebook Engineering Tech Talks

This is one of our projects to improve Information ExperienceTM in business. Here are some more.

Is it Great Depression bad? That’s a qualitative question I can’t answer. But what the data, the hard facts, mean for you – if you run a consumer business – is that your customers are spending $400 less each month than they were a year ago, have burned through half of their savings, and on average have taken on an additional $5k in debt.