Archive for the ‘Business’ Category

The Future of Online Communities?

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 ...

The 2007 Media Share Shift in the U.S.

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 ...

TV 2.0

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 ...

The burden of the newspaper industry

Monday, March 10th, 2008

The Street is reporting on the decline of newspapers. Similar has been reported earlier. One could jump to some quick conclusions and blame the overall economy for the decline. However, at the very same time online classifieds, search advertising and online display ad sales has been steadily growing, even ...

The Beatles (finally) goes iTunes

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

So it finally happened. According to UPI, Paul McCartney has signed 400 million dollar deal "with iTunes" to bring The Beatles backcatalog to Apple's music service. Given that this has been publicised as writing a deal "with iTunes", I'd like to know the exact background and with whom the deal ...

The tipping point, entropy, Swarzchild radius and quantum fluctuations

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

It’s been a while since I last wrote anything as this blog was not meant as an active outlet for my excess toughts. However, I may have to change my ways as my amount of input vs. amount of output ratio is rapidly approaching infinity. As a more educated reader ...

Afterthoughts from TiVi-ilta

Friday, August 31st, 2007

I was lucky enough to be one of the panelists at TiVi-ilta (http://tivi.fi/ilta) last evening. The subject was Agile, or more precisely, business oriented ICT development. Just a fast mental note about thoughts I had afterwards... Agile is becoming a bandwagon thing I think every business is struggling with time to market ...