Jeff Nolan

My name is Jeff Nolan and I write Venture Chronicles. What started, in 2002, as a simple initiative to understand this thing called “blogs” that I kept hearing about has evolved into something much more significant. Home About Venture Chronicles About Venture Chronicles My name is Jeff Nolan and I write Venture Chronicles. What started, in 2002, as a simple initiative to understand this thing called “blogs” that I kept hearing about has evolved into something much more significant. Along the way to becoming a bona fide blogger I started to understand the implications of user generated content. At the time I was a venture capitalist for SAP, the enterprise software company, and in my travels in the enterprise software market it became evident that blogging would be a powerful communication channel for enterprises to use, what we now call social media, and a powerful information collection mechanism for bottom up corporate intelligence. Combined with search technology, social networking software, and wikis, I was witnessing the inception of an entirely new generation of knowledge management software. I am currently the VP Product Marketing for Get Satisfaction, the simple and effective way to build online communities that enable productive conversations between companies and their customers. Over 50,000 companies use Get Satisfaction to create a social support experience, build better products, realize SEO benefits, and take advantage of brand loyalty behaviors that results in strong word of mouth marketing experiences in the market. I can be reached at jnolan-at-gmail-dot-com.

Latest from Jeff Nolan

What Comes After Hard Drives?

What comes after hard drives? Good question and one that is critical to our future computing ambitions. According to a new study, if HDDs continue to progress at their current pace, then in 2020 a two-disk, 2.5-inch disk drive will be capable of storing more than 14 TB and will cost about $40 (today, a ...

Network Neutrality, Washington DC and Absolute Truth

One sobering thought to think about while you are celebrating the FCC’s decision to move forward with net neutrality regulations is that for the first time the FCC is asserting itself as the authority to regulate how the web is governed. With Thursday’s vote, the five-member panel began the process to move forward with the ...

Newsday.com Destined for Failure with Pay Wall

  Cablevision must have gotten punch drunk with all of the talk coming out of newspapers about going to a subscription model for their online services, because they are going big, really big, with a $260 a year pricing plan for Newsday.com Those who are not customers of Optimum Online or the newspaper – both ...

Pay-Per-Performance Advertising Goes Hyperlocal

I used a new app from mobiQpons yesterday and color me impressed. The way it works is you install their iPhone, Android or Blackberry app (no signup required, just load the app) and when location services on the device is turned on you will get notifications of merchants offering coupons or promotions in your area. ...

Opinion vs. Expertise (in Which Mike Masnick Might Be Wrong)

It’s not often that I disagree with Mike Masnick and I am not ready to fully do that here but he is not fully centered on the core issue either. Kimball is correct that he should be better defining his brand and proving his worth — that’s what we’ve been saying all along. But you ...

If SAP Built an Electric Car

You gotta admire people who have a sense of humor about what their company does: You need to buy a minimum of 5 cars in license You need at least 1/2 year to adapt your street, garage and parking space to use your SAP ECar But you can run it on bicycle tires, train tracks ...

IAB Finds the FTC Blogger Guidelines “Unconstitutional” – Calls for Reversal

At first I thought this was pretty clear but then the FTC decided to complicate things by saying about their own regulations that they were “guidelines” and not “regulations”. However, in that same statement they said that advertisers would be required to adhere to the guidelines, so what is the difference between a guideline and ...

Hulu: Potentially the Next Stop for Network Castoffs

Broadcast schedules are two dimensional, there is a time slot and a desired demographic, which has conspired to make broadcast networks rather uninteresting destinations for good TV. The 22 minute sitcom format is dead while dramatic series are rarely given the time necessary for characters to develop. It’s often forgotten that the venerable Law & ...

Cleantech Counterpoint: Not Jumping the Bandwagon at Any Cost

My new column, Cleantech Counterpoint, on Gigaom’s Earth2Tech blog debuted today, with the first installment focusing on California’s AB32 carbon emissions law and a retrospective look at what is going on in Spain. I have, like many others, been fascinated with energy technology and agree with many of my peers that this is the next ...

AP’s New Business Model Heralds: Meh

It’s odd that so few of the stories about the AP and charging for content point out that the AP itself is a cooperative owned by a group of newspapers. Therefore, when the AP talks about charging some online customers more than others, what they are really saying is that they will band together to ...