October 2008
1 post
“A company’s bid to rally an industry ecosystem around a new competitive view is...”
– Shaping Strategy in a World of Constant Disruption
August 2008
3 posts
“Evolution favors those who can make sense out of evolving landscapes. Those who...”
– Edge Perspectives with John Hagel
“In a world where seemingly everything is getting more expensive, the price of...”
– The Long Tail: Why Technology Hasn’t Saved Us From Inflation (but still can)
Saffo: Strong Opinions weakly held →
The point of forecasting is not to attempt illusory certainty, but to identify the full range of possible outcomes. Try as one might, when one looks into the future, there is no such thing as “complete” information, much less a “complete” forecast. As a consequence, I have found that the fastest way to an effective forecast is often through a sequence of lousy forecasts. Instead of withholding...
July 2008
1 post
Six Principles for Making New Things →
Overlooked problems are by definition problems that most people think don’t matter.
June 2008
5 posts
gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of... →
If you want to be boring, talk about yourself. If you want to be interesting, talk about other people.
Mobile telecoms | Halfway there | Economist.com →
“SOMETIME in the next few months, the number of mobile phones in use will exceed 3.3 billion, or half the world’s population. No technology has ever spread faster around the globe”
Deborah Schultz: The Economics of Brands →
“A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is - it is what consumers tell each other it is.”
The New Advertising Outlet: Your Life - New York... →
“Behind the shift is a fundamental change in Nike’s view of the role of advertising. No longer are ads primarily meant to grab a person’s attention while they’re trying to do something else — like reading an article. Nike executives say that much of the company’s future advertising spending will take the form of services for consumers, like workout advice, online communities and local sports...
May 2008
10 posts
“Advertising is the price companies pay for being un-original –Yves Behar”
– Andrés Bianciotto » Archivo » La publicidad es…
“It’s not about open source, social networks, energy markets, financial systems,...”
– Igniter in a comment on A VC: Looking Forward (via fred-wilson)
An Open Challenge to Silicon Valley - Harvard... →
If you’re a revolutionary, then be one: put your money where your mouth is, and fix a big problem that changes the world for the better - if you really have the courage, the purpose, and the vision, that is.
“The history of science is full of ideas that several people had at the same...”
– Annals of Innovation: In the Air: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
April 2008
7 posts
Of shoes and money …. and information →
Information is changing. And it is becoming more valuable to us all by becoming less valuable to any one of us.
Watch Lessig => Testifying @ FCC @ Stanford
“An important point here is that the focus of strategic innovation is NOT on...”
– A 15-Minute Innovation Crash Course - Marketing & Strategy Innovation Blog
Life on the Edge: Learning from Facebook →
“Social interaction often precedes economic activity.”
March 2008
6 posts
blog.pmarca.com: The Psychology of Entrepreneurial... →
“If there’s one single lesson you apply at the edge, let it be this: business...”
– Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab (via fred-wilson)
Overcoming Bias: Bias And Power →
People relate to power two ways, via deference and defiance. When we defer to power, we are indeed biased to give it too much inferential weight, but when we defy power, we give it too little inferential weight. We listen too much to the powers that we feel allied with, and too little to powers we feel allied against. To think more objectively, become less allied.
WatchLarry Lessig — How creativity is being strangled by the law
The Health 2.0 Blog: Health 2.0 – Patient-oriented... →
With the insurgence of Medical Social Networking sites with a patient / doctor interactive communities, patients are now able to provide and share knowledge about diseases, treatments, and local doctors within their own communities. These sites are the heart of the Health 2.0 idea. Moving out of the depths of the waiting rooms and into the space of the World Wide Web, patients are discussing the...
February 2008
20 posts
FREE LOVE →
FREE LOVE: the ongoing rise of free, valuable stuff that’s available to consumers online and offline. From AirAsia tickets to Wikipedia, and from diapers to music. FREE LOVE thrives on an all-out war for consumers’ ever-scarcer attention and the resulting new business models and marketing techniques, but also benefits from the ever-decreasing costs of producing physical goods, the...
Fractals of Change: WHO Doesn’t Like the Gates... →
“The chief of malaria for the World Health Organization has complained that the growing dominance of malaria research by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation risks stifling a diversity of views among scientists and wiping out the world health agency’s policy-making function.
The road to e-democracy | Economist.com →
Technology can amplify and aggregate voices that used to be faint and muffled.
Technology in emerging economies | Of internet... →
Emerging economies are better at adopting new technologies than at putting them into widespread use.
Kevin Kelly -- The Technium -- Will Spiritual... →
The central question, the central issue, of this coming century is not “what is an AI,?” but “what is a human?” What are humans good for?
Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab: The New Economics... →
the net offers listeners insurance against the music industry itself. File-sharing isn’t simply theft. Rather, file-sharing is risk-sharing - against an industry with the freedom to undertake hidden action in the extreme, and not live up to the contract it has written
A VC: Here's What We Have To Do →
my point is that this is just the beginning of using internet tools to change the world we interact with, as opposed to trying to make it easy to interact with the standard world using the Internet
Facebook Turns 1,500 Users Into Spanish... →
Facebook says that the Spanish site was completed in less than four weeks and is based on the work of nearly 1,500 Spanish-speaking Facebook users. One user alone, though, was responsible for translating almost 3% of the site.Facebook has 2.8 million active users in Latin America and Spain.
apophenia: open-access is the future: boycott... →
Open-access is right. Heavy metal gates and expensive gatekeepers isn’t. It’s time for change to happen! To all of the academics out there, I beg you to help me make this change reality. Let’s stop being silenced by academic publishers.
apophenia: just because we can, doesn't mean we... →
just because people can profile, stereotype, and label people doesn’t mean that they should. Just because people can surveil those around them doesn’t mean that they should. Just because parents can stalk their children doesn’t mean that they should. So why on earth do we believe that just because technology can expose people means that it should?
The Piracy Paradox: Financial Page: The New Yorker →
This doesn’t mean that we can always do without copyrights and patents, and fashion has unique characteristics that limit the damage that copying can do: it’s relatively cheap to come up with new designs, there’s a culture of novelty, and people are willing to pay more for the right brands. But we should be skeptical of claims that tougher laws are necessarily better laws. Sometimes imitation...
“Interesting, but of no commercial value”: The... →
As William Gibson said, the future’s here, it’s just unevenly distributed. That description is apt when applied to the implementation and take-up of social media tools. So when you next decide all this is a waste of time, think IBM, think Bloomberg, think eBay, think Google, think Amazon. Or even think Goldman Sachs. Think why Goldman Sachs has a very high percentage of employees using Facebook....
Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab -- Victim of the... →
You know, it’s not often that we get to witness fatal errors. Strategic errors, sure. But bona fide fatal - company-killing, firm-vaporizing errors - errors? Almost never - they’re the strategic equivalent of meteor strikes.