Malcolm Gladwell and France’s take on Business Heros

January 16, 2010

In this month’s New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell has a piece entitled “The Sure Thing” (digital subscription required) about entrepreneurs and risk.  Gladwell builds on a recent book by a couple French scholars called “From Predators to Risk: Exposing the Myth of the Business Hero” (only in France, how un-Ayn Rand of them).
According to Gladwell, great [...]

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RSS should be “unbundled”

November 25, 2009

Why, as a web Publisher, why can I not easily send an update to my RSS subscribers without publishing a new post?
Let’s say I have 700 RSS subscribers, and this is the primary way that people read my content.  Would Publishers find it valuable to be able to send a direct message to these 700 [...]

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History Repeats Itself – Google is the Microsoft of Mobile Computing

November 2, 2009

History is repeating itself in the mobile marketplace. Some of the companies have changed, but the business strategies and even a few of the players are still the same.
In looking back to how the PC market developed, Microsoft took an open approach. They licensed their OS to lots of hardware makers and said [...]

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Companies with Soul

October 29, 2009

Can a Company have soul?

We all have certain perceptions about products or services we use.  Some of them have a certain ‘glow’ about them.  Perhaps it’s because they are doing something different, something that touches our core and reminds us of something real.
What does it mean for a Company to have soul?  First let’s take [...]

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Twitter, TV, and Content Filters

September 27, 2009

What if instead of the channels you see on TV, everyone in the world had a camera and a channel?  You could select a person’s channel and then watch their videos. When you turn on your TV, you would see the channels of people you like.
In reality we have TV networks that act [...]

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