Archive for July, 2005

Apple thwarting music podcasts …

… at least those of independent music podcasters. A group of independent music podcasters says that Apple is thwarting independent music podcasters. The group announced that Apple is not publishing some of the feeds of some of its members’ podcasts at the iTunes Music Store. Well, music podcasts may hurt music sales at the iTunes [...]

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Business Innovation

A nice section at Business Week on Business Innovation and yes, Design New design strategies and a fresh cadre of innovation gurus are helping executives build creative corporations Some of the articles are older, still this collection looks really promising …

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Sun plans to make all its software free …

… to build »Communities« around their technologies … had some of this already. notice this [...] Open source is having a [highly] productive role in driving innovation, driving down cost” and this By commoditizing technology, markets are built up, [...] commodity markets are the best markets in the world [...] markets such as financial services [...]

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Update zu Web Mash-ups

Found this post by the guy who was interviewed by the folks of Business Week, noted in my post of late and adding to this other post … notice that he adds that the only issue that wasn’t addressed (based on the audience of BusinessWeek) was the ramifications of opening up your data as a [...]

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Xbox Live grows on

The online gaming community Xbox Live is growing on … having reached 2 million subscribers recently and doubling its size in just one year. [Microsoft] attributed the success of Xbox Live to the growing number of titles for the console that now allow for some type of online interactivity, as well as the option to [...]

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Knowledge management still going strong …

… as knowledge management solutions are now the most important strategic technologies for large companies, according to a new report and survey of European executives (research by Economist Intelligence Unit) [...] despite huge investments in corporate IT, executives currently feel unable to exploit large amounts of corporate information. Two-thirds of companies in the survey complain [...]

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Mix, Match, And Mutate

Found this story on Web mash-ups in the new issue of BusinessWeek. These mash-ups combine and remix the data and services of different web sites into something entirely new, a kind of new hybrid web service: volunteer programmers are taking it upon themselves to combine and remix the data and services of unrelated, even competing [...]

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