Apple’s apps | Google’s web: What is the future of the internet?
It happened ever so sneakily-–just as we were celebrating the demise of old media companies and rejoicing in the new freedom of the web, it’s gone. While we were busy thinking the internet revolution...
View ArticleThe Real Truth behind Fake Steve
“Truthiness” is probably the best word to describe The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, a blog that more often than not does too good a job at parodying what Steve Jobs might be thinking on any given issue....
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Collaboration as competition. Microsoft decides to “collaborate”.
First off, thanks to Alex Bogusky for letting me piggyback the title of this post. Last month my colleague Laura Carrillo asked if it will be Apple or Google to own the third screen. Recent events have...
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Nexus One vs. Droid Specs
Based on information posted on December 23, 2009, by Endgadget on the forthcoming Nexus One phone from Google, and on the existing specifications for the Motorola Droid phone from Verizon Wireless and...
View ArticleGoing Vertical: The New Reality of Vertical Integration in the Era of...
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal by Ben Worthen, Cari Tuna and Justin Scheck pointed out a resurgence of vertical integration as a company strategy as seen with Oracle’s recent acquisition...
View ArticleApple vs. Google – Who will own the “third screen”?
Over the weekend Twitter exploded with tweets about the new Google smartphone, rumored to be launched in January 2010 and named the Nexus One. With the iPhone still dominating the market, what does...
View Article12 Critical Success Factors for Business Platforms
In 2004, Walt DuLaney and I conducted a longitudinal examination of business growth and cumulative revenue performance. Among the success factors, we found that companies with powerful business...
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Employee Computing and Your Vendor Relationships
In a past post I wrote about Web 2.0 policies and some of the findings from our recently published study entitled Redefining Employee Computing. Another area we studied as part of that project was how...
View ArticleOnline gaming more than just fun
As I discussed a few weeks ago, the U.S. ranks 19th in the world when it comes to Internet download speed. The fastest country is South Korea. We need to do better. The Obama administration’s...
View ArticleApple and the Rise of Competitive Business Platforms – What Other Companies...
Last Friday, the Apple rumor mill went into overdrive. Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster and All Things Digital’s ardent Apple follower of Boomtown fame, Kara Swisher, openly discussed the long-rumored...
View ArticleA Brief History of OSes
Last month I read Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash. It’s one of those books that throws your ideas about the nature of the world up in the air, leaving them differently-arranged when they land. If you’re...
View ArticleTV ads for iPhone Apps
Have you ever seen a TV commercial for a free mobile phone application? I hadn’t until just last night when I happened to see this while watching prime time TV: The idea that a company would use costly...
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Creating the eight year old brand evangelist
I recently stumbled upon a series of training workshops, for which I would have been very eager to sign up, only to find out that I was some 20 years too old to register. Widely recognized for creating...
View ArticleTIME tells newspaper industry how to save itself
Here’s an “in case you missed it” story. I was reading the newspaper recently and came across a reference to Walter Isaacson article “How to Save Your Newspaper.” Ironic that I came across this quite...
View ArticleDoing more with our phones
The iPhone is an amazing peice of technology, to put it simply. Its applications range from the relatively useless (this Light Saber application), to the border-line illegal (card counting applications...
View ArticleTuesday Morning Laugh: The MacBook Wheel
Since I was converted to the dark side and became a mac user, I’ve tried as best as I can to avoid becoming one of those annoying mac fans, but when I saw this report from the good folks at the Onion...
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The netGuide to Virtual Shopping
They always say, don’t judge a book by it’s cover. But you do anyways. As humans, it’s difficult to separate what we see from what we think – it’s in our nature to use every incoming stimulus to...
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They don’t call them Smartphones for nothing
Praised for their use of social networking throughout the presidential campaign the Obama team has added yet another social media weapon to its arsenal. The following blog post caught my attention...
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XKCD, YouTube, and the Emerging Personalities of Applications and Companies
Every so often, Randall Munroe, author of the XKCD webcomic, gets it right — really, really right. A while ago, Munroe had this to say about comments on YouTube, something I tend to agree with most of...
View ArticleGiving Up Control with Software as a Service: Reliability Concerns?
On September 8th, the London Stock Exchange suffered its second black eye in eight years, as a network glitch caused trading to grind to a halt. The system went down about one hour into the trading...
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