There has been a movement of late and a buzz about the Chief Networking Officer, I have jumped on the bandwagon. Smaller companies and start-ups can get the biggest immediate impact by adding a CNO. The Chief Networking Officer (CNO) has gained much interest as more companies and executives have become open minded to challenging the corporate hierarchy structure.
Twitter just received almost $10 million more in funding, and has a reported $50 million in the bank (or perhaps a more secure place, like under the mattress). The company has no revenue, fewer than 30 employees, and has been criticized as being the dumbest idea ever. Yet Twitter remains the hottest company in the wacky world of Silicon Valley start-ups.
Volantis Systems announced that its device information library has reached 6,000 devices. With more and more people choosing to access the Internet from their mobile handsets, there’s an ever greater need for Internet software which can react and adapt to the changing device landscape. Volantis has incorporated Web 2.0 capabilities into many of their products, including its open source Mobility Server, Ubik.com and the “Social” Storefront.
Salvatore Genovese says Twitter is the dumbest thing ever. Apparently, he’s never seen Microsoft Bob or The Astronaut Farmer. There’s a funny article in Web 2.0 Journal by an SEO consultant from Italy named Salvatore Genovese, who thinks that Twitter is the dumbest thing he’s ever seen. The column appears next to a short piece I wrote about my twittecdotes. Salvatore thinks that Twitter is full of “spammers and crazy people.” Yeah, and your point is?…. The world is full of spammers and crazy people, and Twitter is nothing more than a million-plus-strong flock of humanity.
Synchronica has announced new functionality within Mobile Gateway 4.0 that pushes social networking and news updates to mass market mobile phones. A wide range of popular social networking sites, such as Twitter, Flickr, Picasa, LinkedIn and Plaxo are supported, in addition to thousands of other news, financial, and sporting feeds. Updates are automatically pushed to the user’s mobile phone whenever new content is made available. The integration is based on Mobile Gateway’s standard JCR-compliant plugin architecture which connects to any site that supports RSS feeds.
I agree with my business partner, Roger R Mussa, when he said that smaller companies and start-ups can get the biggest, most-immediate impact by adding a CNO. The smaller and the more flexible the organization is in order to adopt a new leadership style, the better it is for a CNO position to be quickly deployed at the early stages.
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