Don Dodge has been a product, strategic and market visionary at five start-up ventures and possesses a track record of driving business and technology in entrepreneurial and high-growth environments. Most recently he was Director, Business Development at Microsoft, where he handled Venture Capital relations and business development with start-up companies in the Boston area.
Don Dodge's Blog:The Next Big Thing
There are 50 million Facebook users who don't know what OpenSocial APIs
are...and don't care. There are about 5,000 tech bloggers and developers who
think it is a revolution that will "Checkmate" Facebook and leave them with
no moves. TechMeme has over 100 stories saying that OpenSocial is awesome and
Facebook is dead. MySpace joins Google on OpenSocial initiative. OK, surely
that settles it, Facebook is dead toast. Nope, not in my opinion.
Are Facebook users going to cancel their account? No, I doubt it. Facebook
was a runaway success long before they allowed 3rd party apps and widgets. I
don't see Facbook users leaving because some widget might not be available,
and I don't see widget developers abandoning Facebook just because there ... (more)
Don Dodge's Blog
The web fanatics and blogosphere would have you believe that all applications
will move to the web. Some will, most will not. Reliability, scalability,
security, and a host of other issues will prevent most businesses from moving
their mission critical applications to hosted services or cloud based
services. The risk of failure is too great.
I woke up earlier this June and... (more)
Don Dodge has been a product, strategic and market visionary at five start-up ventures and possesses a track record of driving business and technology in entrepreneurial and high-growth environments. Most recently he was Director, Business Development at Microsoft, where he handled Venture Capital relations and business development with start-up companies in the Boston area.
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