Category: innovation

Drinking Microsoft’s Kool-Aid: Silverlight to Kill Flash?

It seems that suddenly everyone is impressed with Microsoft again, as they introduce their rival to Flash called Silverlight. At this point, the news is more for web developers to get excited about, but it seems that this technology may surely affect most users of the web at some point. Robert Scoble describes why: “For… Continue reading Drinking Microsoft’s Kool-Aid: Silverlight to Kill Flash?

From Connecting to Collaborating: P2P Networks

Read/Write Web takes a look at peer-to-peer (P2P) networks and applications. While the themes of collaboration, empowerment and access mirror those of other social media elements (blogs, etc) – these networks really take things to the next level. For a B2B publisher – it goes beyond just a communication platform for your industry. Now, individuals… Continue reading From Connecting to Collaborating: P2P Networks

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Connecting the Islands of Information

Read/Write Web looks at the coming transformation of the web as bits of individualized pieces of information, to a the web becoming a system of “web services that integrate this information in more useful ways. “Some web sites will follow the example of Amazon, del.icio.us and Flickr and will offer their information via a REST… Continue reading Connecting the Islands of Information

Where Anyone Can Be a Reporter, Writer, Researcher or Editor

Wired is diving into citizen journalism and crowdsourcing once again. A new project called Assignment Zero offers: “…any willing contributor the chance to do the work of a reporter, writer, researcher or editor in a joint investigation by Wired and NewAssignment.Net. When Assignment Zero ends, NewAssignment.Net will publish the results — articles, interviews and assorted… Continue reading Where Anyone Can Be a Reporter, Writer, Researcher or Editor

When the Music Stops for Newspapers

The Financial Times takes a look at whether the “traditional” model of the newspaper industry is sustainable. “If you look very fundamentally at what is happening to the business, it is really a perfect negative storm, in the sense of loss of readership, loss of classified ads, and ultimately loss of display ads.” A great… Continue reading When the Music Stops for Newspapers

How the Audience Has Changed

More and more, people are consuming media differently, and have radically re-engineered how they communicate with the world. Jim Courtney of Skype Journal takes a look at our always on” culture. For media companies, this is very telling of how the lives of your audience has changed. Do people read less print media because of… Continue reading How the Audience Has Changed

A Relentless Focus on Customer Experience

The New York Times has an article about eBay’s struggle to reinvigorate their stock price. They focus on John Donahoe, president of one of eBay’s most important divisions, and gives a sampling of what an online company needs to do move the needle. It involves a relentless focus on customer experience. An interesting example: He… Continue reading A Relentless Focus on Customer Experience

Where New Ideas Come From

Robert Scoble has an interesting post about how innovation happens. His theory, is that it doens’t happen much within established companies – that they prefer to have others test it and establish it’s value first. “Big companies (even ones like Google) will rarely execute on totally novel new ideas. Why? Committees and not invented here… Continue reading Where New Ideas Come From

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