PC Magazine's Top Websites of 2009

Client Voyij is chosen as one of PC Magazine's top 100 websites of 2009. Not bad for a company that just launched early summer.

Why? No one else is doing what they've accomplished. You can customize alerts so you are notified with the best travel deals and sales on the web that meet personalized criteria. Think Caribbean, Paris and Miami baby - Voyij will watch out for deals and send 'em your way.

You can also proactively go to Voyij.com and enter your originating city and let Voyij discover magical destinations and deals you never knew existed.

On Reaching Influencers and Advocates

Susan Bratton, JD Lasica, Renee Blodgett and Robert Scoble on a panel at Cambridge University in the UK on: Reaching Influencers and Advocates

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Tony Perkins: AlwaysOn 2009 & What's Next?

At the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit yesterday in Palo Alto, Tony Perkins gives a recap of the event, talks about new innovations over the past year and what's next with his upcoming conferences GoingGreen West and AlwaysOn OnDC in Washington, both in the fall.

The Italian World Channel: All Things Italian

Italian World Channel's CEO Enrico Beltramini talks to us at AlwaysOn this week about "all things Italian."

"We in Italy are very romantic and charming," he says. Beauty,design, travel, lifestyle and love.

They also have a Books and Blues section, as well as Cinema and Celebrities. More from Enrico below.

SaaS Goes Open Source: Kaltura's Yekutiel Tells Us Why

Kaltura's Ron Yekutiel talks to us about open source and video. They organized and participated in a SaaS Goes Open Source panel at AlwaysOn this week, together with SpikeSource, Zimbra, Acquia, Fenwick & West and Alfresco.

It's disruptive he says, but tears down those gardened walls giving corporations better control, flexibility and better integration. More from Ron on the SaaS model, video and open source below.

My6Sense Updates Us

Barak Hachamov and the My6Sense team gathers in Palo Alto to talk about their updates and upcoming iPhone app.

Pay-to-Play Blogs that Test & Review Products

The Federal Trade Commission may soon require online media to comply with disclosure rules under its truth-in-advertising guidelines; the NY Times dove into the full story earlier this month.

A draft of the new rules was posted for public comments this year and the staff is to make a formal recommendation to be presented to the commissioners for a vote, perhaps as soon as the fall.

From the article, we learn that TNT is experimenting with a paid relationship with Melanie Notkin, founder and chief executive of SavvyAuntie.com, a blog that targets aunts without children.

For some bloggers, pay-to-play is the only way. Recently during a launch of a new website, I had an email exchange with a blogger who wanted to charge for a reference and link to the new site in a blog post, something that was naturally very relevant for her audience and something her readers would love to learn about…….yet, no pay, no value-add to her readers.

There’s the $$ amount per post and there’s also the additional nominal fee (cents) every time a reader might click from the blog to a corporate site that sells the product the blogger is highlighting.

Pay-to-play isn’t new but as if it becomes more widely adopted, it will change the way readers view the credibility of blogs. It has to. It’s not where has newspapers gone? They’re sinking to their inevitable death, but it doesn’t mean that journalism ethics and integrity have to die along with them.

Full disclosure and authenticity is great but I’d hate to see advertorials and pay-to-play become the norm rather than the exception.

No More Refresh on the Web: Real Time a Reality with Groovy Corp.

A stat I didn't realize was that 99% of the web is a refresh experience. Seems logical but not something you think about because we're so used to it. Delay. Refresh. Delay again. Frustrating at best, particularly when it affects your productivity.

We all want real time however the experience has fallen short until now. Imagine going to Ticket Master and seeing seats disappear and reappear in real time, without a delay, the moment a ticket is purchased or returned.

Imagine Twitter feeds flying through the widget that collects them on various websites and blogs the instant you post something.

Welcome to the world of Groovy Corp. Run by Australian entrepreneurs, it's a promise I was excited about at this week's AlwaysOn Stanford Summit.

They focus on delivering database and cloud solutions (hosted DB’s) and appliances for web properties that need a fast real-time experience. Say goodbye to the chunkiness and slowness of legacy relational databases, and hello to Groovy's SQL switch that scales easily, and improves speed and performance by over 100x.

Today, they'll announce their SQL Switch's performance using the Dell DVD Online Store Benchmark.

Below Groovy Corp's CEO Joe Ward tells us why this is important and how it will change the way corporations work and think, not to mention the experience consumers will have as a result.

CVSDude's Jason Seed

Today at AlwaysOn Stanford Summit, I had a chat with Australian entrepreneur Jason Seed, CVSDude's CEO and Managing Director.

They're a pioneer in web-based source code management solutions and have over 3,000 customers, including Accenture, BBC, Intel, MIT and countless others.

CVSDude is Software as a Service (SaaS) and deploys their platform across corporate intranets as well as the Web. More from Jason below.

Chahil & Perkins Chat: Webcasts, The Old Days, Sustainability

Tony Perkins and Satjiv Chahil talk about early days of webcasts they did together, which included a guest appearance of a model. Apple Days. Palm Days. HP Days. Satijiv on HP's commitment to sustainability. Below taken yesterday at AlwaysOn Stanford Summit.