Great Products in an Uncertain World

To achieve success in today’s ever-changing and unpredictable markets, competitive businesses need to rethink and reframe their strategies across the board. Large companies today often get too caught up in chasing revenue and lose touch with what their customers actually want. Smaller startup’s today are passionate with ideas, adrenaline and dollars-signs-in-their-eyes – but they often [...]

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STARTUPS: Consumer Engagement Framework

In today’s world of Web 2.0 startups there seems to be a formula that goes something like this – Get Users, Drive Usage and then Monetize. How far and how fast and how much money you might need depends entirely on your situation. I am developing a handbook for startups which lays out an approach [...]

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TECH: Importance of Microformats

Do Microformats offer enough benefits to jump on the bandwagon at this time? By now you’ve probably heard of microformats and wondered what they are, exactly. Officially, they’re a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards that allow web sites to be coded for humans first and machines second. [...]

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TECH: Comparison of SOA & Web 2.0

The current momentum behind SOA and Web 2.0 architectures is very impressive and some analysts have been pointing out that these two paradigms share some common themes. Even further – it has been suggested that we are headed towards architectural singularity in the software industry. Well ultimately, Darwin will work all this out (unless you [...]

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TECH: Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005

So many little companies at work trying to build software that is easy to use and useful. I found this great diagram that categorizes many of these companies into application segments. Here is my best of 2005 for “Web 2.0” software. And the award goes to… 1. del.icio.us (Category: Social Bookmarking) If you want access [...]

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TECH: New Design Patterns = New Opportunities

I just finished reading the new book “the Google Story” and have been thinking about “Web 2.0″, “The Long Tail” and the rise of “Remix Culture”. There is definitely something significantly different about today’s internet and now begins the hard work of separating the Hype for the Reality. Is the new web landscape going to [...]

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TECH: Craigslist + GoogleMaps = Cool New Tool

It seems like the greater promise of the web is beginning to happen. In case you’re not aware, I wanted to point out an important trend that’s beginning to gel nicely! Web Sites are growing beyond being just destination sites, but are increasingly providing core services through published APIs, allowing their value propositions to be [...]

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BOOKS: Disentangling technology, legal and economic threads

Booking reading update: In my continuing effort to better understand all sides to the technology sector, I am currently reading this book that covers the Internet bubble and the dynamics that are setting the stage for current and future internet and software business models. This book has a strong “law and economy forces” perspective and [...]

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