Yahoo! Japan selected Google as its search partner in Japan. It is suggested by commentators that this is contrary to how the parent company handled things. But let’s review: Microsoft won the Yahoo! search business only after: an attempted hostile takeover (though its arguable Microsoft was that serious about it as Yahoo!’s position as lead [...]
Mary Meeker became famous as a dot.com era analyst alongside peers Jack Grubman and Henry Blodget. Unlike Grubman and Blodget she managed to avoid being thrown under the wheels of the bus, so is now the elder stateswoman of the digital economy. Mary and her team at Morgan Stanley put together good thoughtful state-of-the-nation presentations. [...]
Mobile seems to have become an issue as technology companies start to think about the future. Part of this consideration of the future has to do with the fact that some experts think that we are into our final decade of gains from Moore’s Law and once that goes kaput Silicon Valley turns into the [...]
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The office that I work in has been abuzz about Google Wave and Becky has been gently badgering me to air my thoughts on it. I have been reluctant to give a definitive judgement on it, as I believe that like Twitter; it’s true utility may not become apparent until there are a critical amount [...]
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In the 1980s Nancy Reegan fronted a public service advertising campaign ‘Just say no‘, originally designed to combat rampant cocaine and marijuana usage in the US. About this time Hewlett Packard released one of the first touchscreen computers. The HP-150 was MS-DOS compatible. It was unsuccessful because users didn’t like to take their fingers off [...]
Delicious is one of them products which was created pretty much perfect in its first incarnation and they have been very careful in the way that they have tweaked it over time. Now they have made it even easier to share content than ever by allowing you to save a bookmark and share it via [...]
I have been thinking about legislation and innovation recently, triggered in part by a conversation over Twitter that I had with Phillip Sheldrake over Twitter whilst he was at the Intellect conference. In western countries such as the UK, France, Sweden and the US we have seen legislation and authorities act out of fear and [...]
I have been thinking a lot about the right approach to campaigns and product development. One school of thought is to focus on the client delight: this was exemplified by Waggener Edstrom’s Pam Edstrom who constantly asks of clients and their account teams ‘What is your business problem’? There are advantages to this process: Hopefully [...]
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