Comment on Comcast bringing Skype video chat into the living room by Chris

Great for grandma, but who else is paying for a separate box, remote, and cam just to Skype off your TV? This is a great start to the M$oft era. I hope the next big announcement is that on my next Delta flight I can rent some contraption to Skype from the sky!

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Proof Groupon Still Has LOTS Of Room To Grow

Google's reported $6 billion offer for Groupon has the doubters saying that this two year-old business model has already peaked.

We think that's very far from the truth. As huge as Groupon and its leading competitor, LivingSocial, have become, and as many imitators, aggregators, and related businesses have piled on top of it, we think this is still a young market with lots of room for growth.

One sign that daily deals are just heating up: daily deals are just starting to catch on in some of America's biggest markets.

The Local Offer Network, which runs deal aggregator Dealradar, distributes deals to publishers, and offers a white label deal product, gave us this data on the top U.S. cities by volume of deals offered. Broken down by percentage of total U.S. deals:

1. Chicago: 8%
2. New York, Boston, and San Francisco: 5% each
3. Los Angeles, San Diego, and Washington D.C.: 4% each

In other words, the home of Groupon, followed by the three major cities for venture backed startups. New York is roughly three times the size of Chicago. Boston and San Francisco are tiny compared to cities like Houston, Philadelphia, and Phoenix, which are far behind in daily deals. D.C. -- home to LivingSocial -- is even smaller.

Basically, daily deals are still biggest in the markets where daily deal startups have been founded, not in the markets with the most consumers.

Even if we suppose that Chicago is 100% saturated, the daily deal market still has huge growth potential as the rest of the country catches up.

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See Also:

• Here's Google's Real Offer For Groupon: $6 Billion ($5.3 Billion Plus $700 Million Earnout)
• No, Google Has Not Bought Groupon Yet
• Here's Why Facebook "Deals" Won't Kill Groupon

Proof Groupon Still Has LOTS Of Room To Grow

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The Map Room on Twitter

I’ve been on Twitter longer than most of you, but it was only this morning that I finally got around to setting up a dedicated Twitter account for The Map Room at @maproomblog. Links to all my new blog entries will obviously turn up there, but I’ll also be posting quick notes, responding to people, getting into fights, and retweeting interesting links. (Full posts on said links may follow, but that usually takes me a while.)

It’s also another way to send me link suggestions or other messages: I keep track of mentions, so I’ll see any tweet with “@maproomblog” in the text.

The Map Room on Twitter first appeared on The Map Room: A Weblog About Maps on October 21, 2010. Copyright © 2010 Jonathan Crowe. Distributed under a Creative Commons licence.

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The Map Room on Twitter

I've been on Twitter longer than most of you, but it was only this morning that I finally got around to setting up a dedicated Twitter account for The Map Room at @maproomblog. Links to all my new blog entries will obviously turn up there, but I'll also be posting...

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Green IT: In the Data Center and in the Board Room

Eight months ago, I made the case that green IT, the art and science of making technological infrastructures more energy efficient, was an emerging market that would yield some really interesting career paths. At the time, I cited a survey that said 77 percent of large enterprises either had green IT initiatives underway or were at least considering them. It's a smart move considering the fact that the data center is usually the largest consumer of electricity in any corporate environment.


Now we have some new numbers from Forrester Research that show the need for green IT expertise. According to analyst Christopher Mines, "The first thing to make clear is that there is an opening in most companies for sustainability leadership. Less than a quarter of the companies in our worldwide survey base reported that they had a dedicated Chief Sustainability Officer or equivalent executive function." Sixty-six percent of the global firms surveyed said, "We do not have a chief sustainability officer or other executive dedicated to planning and executing."



That person could be you - or perhaps your boss - in years to come.



Luckily, when sustainability is being discussed in an enterprise, IT is likely to be leading the discussion, which is as it should be. In the survey, 44 percent said IT has a central role in both planning and executing sustainability initiatives. I wonder about the 14 percent who say IT plays no role in green IT. What are they thinking?

Mines makes the important point that broadly speaking, IT is experiencing a sweeping shift "from infrastructure to information." What he means is that when it comes to green IT, we have to look beyond the physical layer of cooling systems and energy-efficient servers and focus on "aggregating, analyzing, and reporting the information that results from wiring up all those assets." His suggestion: IT needs to hook up with colleagues in facilities, finance, operations, and HR, forging internal alliances that work together to tackle sustainability from every angle.


We've said it before, but it bears repeating: green IT matters to the enterprise not because it helps to save the planet but because it helps to save money. You may be interested in the topic because you care about the future of the planet, but you can't count on the CEO sharing your concerns. The top brass wants to improve the bottom line, which is what a sustainable enterprise can do, as long as everyone with a stake works toward that common goal.



The good news is that in today's IT environment, virtually every cutting-edge technology¿all the things that you should be learning about right now¿can tie into green IT. Cloud-based software implementations, virtualization, remote access¿they all play a part in making the enterprise more efficient, so if you're working on these kinds of initiatives you're already part of the solution.



Just make sure you learn how to benchmark the savings. If you can consolidate ten servers into two virtualized servers, how many person hours will you save? How much energy, and therefore money, will you save? Techies sometimes joke that the more efficient they get, the more likely they are to streamline themselves right onto the unemployment line. The defense against that is to fashion yourself as the visionary, proving over and over again that you have an idea that can squeeze another x percent out of the IT budget.



To get up to speed on some of the basic green IT concepts, visit Dice's resources on careers in green IT, our outline explaining how to make IT environmentally friendly, and our look at where the green jobs are.

--Don Willmott 

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