Suzanne Choney at MSNBC is hypothesizing that we have reached a point of technological overload.  With the release of the iPad, another portable computing device, Google Buzz, another social networking site, and 3-D TV starting to emerge, people seem to be getting tired of technology changing every other day.  In the 1990s, it seemed that a piece of technology would come out and provide a unique service for a number of years before another piece of technology provided the same service with additional features or at a cheaper price or in some revolutionary new presentation.  Now, it seems that new technology doesn’t even last a year before the supposed next big thing comes out.  So what do you think?  Have we finally reached the pinnacle of technological saturation or are people’s personal checkbooks making us more cautios buyers?

This is another story from Cnet, and it concerns 15 websites that shutdown during the year.  As you might expect, there are a lot of sub-site from Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google, but there was one that was from a smaller company called Splashcast that was initially a way for people to share, legally, multiple media types.  What sunk them was a lack of funds as they got into publishing content and allowing users to chat during hosted TV shows.  It’s almost like they were trying to provide live video casting solutions. Guess they should have waited until they had more solid sponsorship or customer base before expanding.

From small business to big business there is one thing that everyone wants to achieve and that is efficiency.  However, it’s tough to attain efficiency when you have so many people doing the tedious and mundane part of running the business when they should instead be looking to improve application availability – which enables those folks to concentrate on strategic, value added projects.

A small business will grow and becomes more innovative if time is better spent on the more important projects and the time consuming, manually intensive aspects can take car of themselves!