Polymer Studios :: Web Consulting

Look, you don’t have time to read a full post and I don’t have time to write one. So, let’s just click on some links and pretend we never had this discussion. (It’ll be our little secret.)

• WSJ Blog: Selling online software (a.k.a., SaaS – Software as a Service) isn’t as easy as previously thought. Requires old-skool marketing and sales investments.

• Minnov8 Podcast: Lawson Software dude + Larry Ellison are dissing SaaS, but the Minnov8 guys aren’t completely buying it.

• Wapo: Paul Farhi deconstructs the theatrics of hurricane reporting.

• ReadWriteWeb: Marshall K’s “How to Rock Flickr Like a Champ” is a handy article, especially if you’re, say, moblogging the RNC convention.

• The Toad Stool by Alan Wolk: A sober reminder to those of us getting into a lather over Twitter (would that be a Twather?) to stop smoking our own dope. (”Put down the bong and step away from the social media.”)

• NYT: Visualization of data now available to the masses with the release of Many Eyes. Oh, the geeky potential!