So the big day finally dawned when I left the corporate world and started my own business. 1 Jan 2007 at 00:01, when everyone was celebrating, I was tucked up in bed asleep in preparation for the task ahead. Actually that was more a combination of beer, wine, a long day and residual tiredness kicking in from staying up all night at the very long goodbye party before Christmas than preparation but…
Why leave CNET? It’s a great place, full of great people and fantastic memories for me. It was probably the hardest career decision I’ve ever made (in the past I’ve been “helped” to decide!) but this is a very interesting time for the media business and my chance to use the skills I’ve acquired in the past 6 years with Silicon and CNET so Compound Media was born.
Very rarely in one’s career are you in a situation where there is such a shortage of practical knowledge in the area you that specialise in. Publishers are still struggling to build robust, scalable, integrated on-line systems. That was the case for the traditional publishers in the Web 1.0 era but is increasingly true of the on-line publishers as well as we embark on the Web 2.0 revolution where the users take control and we have to build applications rather than web sites.
So what of this blog? My first task is to carry out some research. Researching the platform, product development and business process issues facing publishers in these turbulent times and investigate the myriad of new technologies and companies that aim to address these problems. I’ll be blogging on what I find as I carry out this research, new and interesting technologies around search, content management, reporting systems, user generated and social networking platforms.
So if you come across anything that you think is interesting/new/out of the ordinary on the web, send me an email and you may even get blogged about here.
