Archive for the ‘Business’ Category
Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Once again, Steve Outing had a thought provoking article about local news. Pretty much the same idea has been lingering in my mind for a while, not least because I'm an active user of Jaiku. The things I think play in favor of microblogging against local news are quite simple: ...
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
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This looks quite interesting: Axel Springer is changing all of their active PCs with Macs. That means 12000 clients. Hopefully this is a sign of increasing corporate adoption of Macs. Since I switched about a year ago, I've had the most problem free period of my IT career. ...
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
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It's now been about one year since the original iPhone came out, but it's the new version of the phone where things really start getting interesting. First of all, Microsoft has been pushing hard to make progress with Windows Mobile with help from HTC and ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
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The New York Times writes about reaction on electronic books at BookExpo America. I've been using my Sony PRS-505 for a few months now and I can see why some publishers, and especially booksellers are getting worried. The value chain of book publishing is hopefully starting to change, ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Scott Berkun has an interesting essay, on how to innovate, that makes a lot of sense. Innovations and innovation culture has always been of great interest for me, mainly because I've been working on product and business development for quite some time now.
The biggest challenge is not innovation itself, but ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
The New York Times Company reported their Q1 earnings and the situation seems to be, with one word, abysmal. Not only did the print advertising sales free fall compared to Q1 2007, but also online advertising only grew in mid-teens, 16% to be exact, with 11% y/y growth for all ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
Loic Le Meur of Seesmic fame has some extremely interesting thoughts on locality and startups. Coming from Finland, that is a very closed market, I might counter some of his thinking. However, when taking a second thought about it, I seem to agree with his reasoning.
When you actually think about ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
Steve Rubel of Edelman Digital has a thoughtful post about online communities. My prediction is that online communities as we view them now, will eventually become extinct as mobility becomes the key factor and we move from communities to always on presence services - a form of pervasive computing.
Just by ...
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Saturday, March 15th, 2008
Silicon Alley Insider has made a FY2007 analysis of changes in media spend in the United States: Google Sucks Life Out of Old Media. The results are not that surprising, but the speed of change is. Google is on its way to become the largest media company in the United ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
The New York Times has an article about online TV viewing in the United States. While the viewer numbers are surprisingly good, the problem is in the monetization: online TV viewer does not generate the same amount of dollars as traditional viewer. When compared with newspaper industry, the problems is ...
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