Category Archives: Forbes.com

Forbes.com: Custom iPad App Is Just What the Doctor Ordered

Latest blog post for Forbes.com: Custom iPad App Is Just What the Doctor Ordered For Salient Surgical Technologies, a custom iPad app is just what the doctor ordered — or, rather, just the trick to get the doctor to place an … Continue reading

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Forbes.com: Best Buy en Español Profits By Serving the Hispanic Market Better

Hispanic customers who shop on the web are giving their time and money to Best Buy in appreciation of its effort to speak their language. Best Buy offers an almost complete duplicate of its main English language website in Spanish … Continue reading

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My Debut as a Gleanster Analyst

This report on Top Performers Adopt Cloud Computing for Business Intelligence is part of a series of research projects I’m doing with Gleanster. The forthcoming main report on BI will also include a formal market research survey conducted by Gleanster … Continue reading

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Fast Times At A Global Web Flower Shop (Forbes.com column on web performance and search optimization)

Commentary Fast Times At A Global Web Flower Shop David F. Carr, 08.13.10, 06:00 AM EDT How daFlores speeds load times, boosts search engine optimization. Francisco Bustos, president of the international flower delivery company daFlores (www.daflores.com), does some of his best … Continue reading

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How Facebook Changes Marketing and Sales (Forbes.com column)

Free Tool: Create a Lead Capture Form That Connects Facebook to Your Website Just out on Forbes.com: How Facebook Changes Marketing And Sales: Author of ”The Facebook Era” on the glories of hypertargeting customers. This is a Q & A … Continue reading

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Forbes.com: Going Beyond the Fog of Private Clouds

Commentary Going Beyond The Fog Of Private Clouds David F. Carr, 08.04.10, 02:00 PM EDT Making cloud computing within the firewall mean something. It’s become fashionable for every organization that runs a cluster ofVMware servers to talk about running a “private … Continue reading

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Forbes.com column: Chef Takes Guerrilla Marketing Online

Chef Takes Guerrilla Marketing Online David F. Carr, 07.27.10, 06:00 AM EDT Taking reservations and collecting money online for an underground restaurant. Russell Jackson speaks not very plausibly about maintaining “plausible deniability” about the years he ran the San Francisco “underground … Continue reading

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Forbes.com column: Organization That Fights Slavery Stretches Its Network

Latest column, on the intersection of technology and international justice. Commentary Organization That Fights Slavery Stretches Its Network David F. Carr, 07.13.10, 06:00 AM EDT International Justice Mission and the importance of centralizing and optimizing. When John Lax joined International Justice … Continue reading

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Forbes.com: Deciding Which Cloud Services to Trust

Commentary Deciding Which Cloud Services To Trust David F. Carr, 07.06.10, 06:00 PM EDT A security expert evaluates Internet business apps. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is a seductive concept for the small, cash-strapped business. No software to install or manage, minimizing the … Continue reading

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Forbes.com: GeeksOnTour, Running a Subscription Website from the Road

Nice folks, and a great story of doing business in your own style. Technology Running A Subscription Website From The Road David F. Carr, 06.11.10, 06:00 AM EDT GeeksOnTour.com founders teach tech skills from their motor home. “We’re flabbergasted!” Chris Guld … Continue reading

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