32 month ago
kayodeok : PBS | I, Cringely . February 2, 2006 - The Walt Within: What If Disney's Prize Wasn't Pixar, but Jobs? - What If Disney's Prize Wasn't Pixar, but Jobs?
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33 month ago
kayodeok : The End of the Internet? (Warning: FUD!!!) - The nation's largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everythi
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33 month ago
kayodeok : Imagining the Google Future - Top experts help us plot four scenarios that show where the company's geniuses may be leading it - and, perhaps, all of us
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33 month ago
kayodeok : Official Google Blog: Google in China - We ultimately reached our decision by asking ourselves which course would most effectively further Google's mission to organize the world's information and make it universally useful and accessible. Or, put simply: how can we provide the greatest access t
Nelson Minar : Google in China - Good explanation of a difficult compromise
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33 month ago
kayodeok : Hollywood's New Zombie - The last days of Blockbuster. - As far the studios are concerned, other than collecting the money that Blockbuster owes them for past movies, the video chain has little relevance to their future
jkottke : Edward Jay Epstein examines where it all went wrong for Blockbuster Video - Edward Jay Epstein examines where it all went wrong for Blockbuster Video. Blockbuster had an opportunity to have rental pricing for DVDs like they did with video, but they turned the deal down and the studios priced DVDs for retail instead and have been
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34 month ago
kayodeok : Tough Love - H.R. 4569, which was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on December 16th, is intended to protect the intellectual property rights of movie studios by MAKING ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERSION ILLEGAL
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34 month ago
Andy Baio : Philipp Lenssen's 15 search predictions for 2006 - some intelligent guesswork
kayodeok : 15 Search Predictions for 2006
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34 month ago
kayodeok : Interland Will Change Its Name to Web.com - The move illustrates the growing importance of branding in mass-market web hosting
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35 month ago
kayodeok : Who's Afraid of Google? Everyone. - High-minded as that sounds, Google's ever-expanding agenda has put it on a collision course with nearly every company in the information technology industry: Amazon.com, Comcast, eBay, Yahoo!, even Microsoft
Philippe Janvier : Who's Afraid of Google ? Everyone. - "That's how it looks to panicked tech companies across the Valley as they contend with Google's ever-expanding power and ambition." [via] #
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38 month ago
kayodeok : Google Is an Advertising Company - Google may or may not become a direct threat to Microsoft in the future, but in the here and now, the entrenched monopolies that ought to feel threatened by Google are newspapers
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38 month ago
kayodeok : What Can Google Learn From Netscape's Downfall? - "After four years, Netscape employees were fully vested in their stock options and became millionaires, which gave them little incentive to work as hard as they had to ensure the company's initial success"
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39 month ago
kayodeok : When Elephants Dance: The Impending War between Intel and Microsoft - More strategising between Intel, Microsoft, IBM and Apple
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39 month ago
kayodeok : Digital Web Magazine - Losability vs. Usability - Many corporate Web sites are designed or redesigned before the owning organization has signed off on a corporate Web strategy, which should act as the governing document for all Web initiatives
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41 month ago
kayodeok : Trend Micro to buy anti-spyware firm InterMute - Trend Micro today announced its intent to acquire privately held anti-spyware software provider InterMute Inc., which makes both consumer and enterprise SpySubtract products, for $15 million.
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42 month ago
kayodeok : Google as a Measurement Company - Google is not a search engine, its a measurement company. It measures attention. What is the value in doing so? Well its the future of market research, based on measurement rather than current WAG methodologies (Wild Ass Guesses), or the more pernicious S
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42 month ago
kayodeok : Why Google Scares Bill Gates - Bill Gates is on a mission to build a Google killer. What got him so riled? The darling of search is moving into software - and that's Microsoft's turf
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43 month ago
jkottke : Barry Diller to buy Ask Jeezes soon? - Diller is responsible for the horrible Ticketmaster.
kayodeok : Ask Jeeves Inc. to Be Bought for $2 Billion - IAC/InterActiveCorp, the Internet company headed by Barry Diller, is close to an agreement to acquire Ask Jeeves Inc., the nation's fourth-largest search engine company, for about $1.9 billion, according to an executive involved in the negotiations
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43 month ago
jkottke : How Apple stomped the Walkman with the iPod
kayodeok : How the iPod Ran Circles Around the Walkman - An insight into Corporate Strategy; I need to read more of this stuff for my final exams in Strategic Business Planning
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44 month ago
kayodeok : The Rise of Howard Stringer at Sony is More Properly the Fall of Ken Kutaragi - An insight into Corporate Strategy; I need to read more of this stuff for my final exams in Strategic Business Planning
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