Tim Berners-Lee and Wendy Hall of WSRI visited HP Labs in Palo Alto. (Credit: Erica Ogg/CNET News.com) “Lots of people are doing research around the Web…and there are interesting results, but a lack of a core curriculum in the universities,” Tim Berners-Lee told a gathering of scientists at HP Labs and other Silicon Valley executives [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Future of the Web coming fast and furious
Posted in Technology on November 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Google’s Secret 10GbE Switch. A Game Changing Strategy
Posted in Strategy, Technology on November 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It is our opinion that Google (GOOG) has designed and deployed home-grown 10GbE switches as part of a secret internal initiative that was launched when it realized commercial options couldn’t meet the cost and power consumption targets required for their data centers. This decision by Google, while small in terms of units purchased, is enormous [...]
Are Indian Business Leaders Different?
Posted in Leadership on November 15, 2007 | 4 Comments »
For some time now, the world has watched as Indian companies — once relatively unknown outside the country — have grown by leaps and bounds to become world-class competitors in many industries. It was high time that someone asked the obvious questions: Do Indian CEOs and business leaders operate in a way that is markedly [...]
Real Revolution Isn’t Facebook’s Ad Plan
Posted in Advertising, Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Technology on November 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg last week unveiled the social network’s new ad program to 250 marketers at a much-hyped Manhattan event with this bold proclamation: “The next hundred years will be different for advertising, and it starts today.” Total hype — or at least hyperbole. Photo: Steve Maller Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled a [...]
is GBrowser Comming ?: as Firefox Contract Expires With Google next year
Posted in Open Source, Strategy on November 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The concern about the Mozilla-Google relation is more focused on what would happen if Google walked away and chose to create its own browser, or back another. Their agreement is set to expire next November, the foundation announced within its financial statements Only a couple of years ago, Firefox was the little browser that [...]
Learn Leadrship from India’s Retails Czar: Kishore Biyani
Posted in Management, Strategy, tagged Leadership on November 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Born into a small trading family, India’s retail czar, Kishore Biyani, replaced conventional wisdom with “guts and instincts” to create Future Group, a $1 billion company that includes Pantaloon Retail, a department store group; Big Bazaar, the company’s name for hypermarkets; Food Bazaar supermarkets, and Central Mall, a more upscale aggregation of merchandise. Known for [...]
The Secrets of Market-Driven Leaders: A Pragmatic Approach
Posted in Management, Marketing, Strategy, Technology on November 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Why does one product succeed while others crash? And why do the second and third products from a successful company almost always fail? The crew at Pragmatic Marketing determined that there are more reasons than features and price when determining the success (or failure) of a product, including “inside-out thinking” and the distractions of running [...]
Why All Media Platforms Must Fragment
Posted in Strategy, Technology on November 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The information age where content is 100% free to distribute and basically free to produce. When launching a brand new media platform today you have to flip the old model on its head and first appeal to a niche to gain traction, this is the Bowling Pin method outlined in Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey [...]
The Factors of Entrepreneurship. Must Read
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Startup Resource, Strategy on November 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Author: TroutGirl Delinates: I should first say that success means different things to different people. If you’re 20 years old, you might be pleased as punch to build something and get a few hundred grand for it a few months later. And hey, as long as you don’t get all kinds of wacky expectations from [...]
Software’s Future: Melding the WEB and the Desktop
Posted in Startup Resource, Strategy, Technology on November 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been a busy few weeks for the big technology companies. On October 1, Adobe Systems announced an agreement to buy Virtual Ubiquity, a company that has created a web-based word processor built on Adobe’s next generation software development platform. One day earlier, Microsoft outlined its plans for Microsoft Office Live Workspace, a service that [...]
