November 2006 - Posts
Got some spare cash, some business acumen, and an interest in the next generation of podcasting devices?
Dave Winer has an idea for you.
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Dave Winer has a smart take on the Bubble 2.0 meme:
Web 2.0 is nothing more than an aftermarket for Google. Startups slicing little bits of Google's P/E ratio, acting as sales reps for Google ads, and getting great multiples for the revenue they generate
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Nick Carr reports: "Large companies appear to be jumping en masse onto the
software-as-a-service bandwagon, according to a new survey of CIOs by
management consultants McKinsey & Company. The survey found that
61% of North American companies with
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Earlier this fall Alan Greenspan disrespected SOX, completely ignoring my tepid argument in its favor. But now Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is defending Sarbanes-Oxley, even as he calls for a less onerous regulatory environment for US companies.Washington
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Pogue calls it a bubble. In fact, the NYT headline says "Bubble 2.0."And the NYT column ledes, "Don’t look now, but the bubble is back."Yes, it’s 1999 all over again. Web start-ups are cropping up with names like Bebo, Squidoo and Moblabber. Start-ups
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Ted Leonsis didn't like his place in Googleworld. So he rollled up his sleeves and started blogging...
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Hit the "post" button too soon in this blog software, and a helpful message appears: Please add some contentGood advice for most journalists.
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The LA Times reports on eco-friendly moves by Wal-Mart, "the nation's largest private purchaser of electricity, with an annual power bill of $1 billion."Important stuff, from a business point of view and beyond. Yet it highlights the disconnect between
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Nick Carr: "As the economic and political costs of client-server computing grow,
the shift to more efficient computing systems will accelerate. That's
not only going to change the nature of IT investment and management,
it's going to change the IT
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I had a lot of fun with this article on the rise of user-created and user-distributed advertising. Writing a trend story, it's always nice to find examples of well-known companies that are part of the trend. The first two I spoke with for this piece were
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Dan Fost on some oft-told tales of the Web 2.0 era (found via Dave Winer).
Literal-minded me, I'm sticking to my not-a-bubble guns.
At least til the shoeshine boy sings and Aunt Gladys puts her money into the next MySpace killer...
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Tim O'Reilly is "leaving the commune," says Nick Carr. "Now, on the eve of his latest Web 2.0 Conference, he admits that he views Web 2.0 not in millennialist terms but in purely mercantile ones - as just another way to make a buck."
Commenters at Tim's
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Maybe one reason CIOs haven't gotten behind the concept of "Green IT" is that, despite rational business cases for doing so, their bosses don't really get it, either.
According to a new report from the Conference Board, Stopping the Profit
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WSJ on Michael Arrington's TechCrunch blog: "ODesk Corp., a Menlo Park company that brokers jobs between computer programmers and companies, says a September writeup on TechCrunch snared five times as many new customers for the company as a BusinessWeek
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I interviewed Chris Anderson about his book, The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More.
By now, most people probably have grasped the concept of the Internet making it possible, and profitable, to sell deeeeeep inventory.
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