Archive for September, 2005

Whole New Web

The Web is no longer for idle wanderings or passive viewing. Believe in BusinessWeek it is about socializing, sharing – and creating …well yes, for one, it is a Web 2.0 … see this cool meme-map I spotted by Peter Forret, read on the new web or have a look at some old posts of [...]

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TiVo going services

Interesting article on how TiVo is annoying customers by tweaking its business model. TiVo has recently endeavored to market the DVR service to new customers and contracts would keep those users from canceling [...] According to the new service agreement, any TiVo activated after September 6 will require a 12-month commitment. Those who cancel before [...]

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Squid Labs: Multiple Focuses on Projects

Interesting article in Wired, on a small company named Squid Labs. which bills itself as “a design firm that does differential equations” and which thrives on intellectual capital … notice this Squid Labs projects together feels more like jazz. Griffith explains the ethos that ties their seemingly disparate projects together is one of working around [...]

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Personal Fabrication: The Dream Factory

Another cool article on personal fabrication labs … Notice the business model implications: fab tools could produce new economic models for creators. Suppose a hobbyist made a cool plastic exterior for an MP3 player. Suppose she put the design online, and 700 people downloaded the file and had it printed at eMachineShop. “At what point,” [...]

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Why the music industry should pay very close attention to blogs, photo-sharing, ringtone-mixers, and social networking

Gerd Leonhard argues that the music industry should pay more attention to the Culture of Participation and that blogs, photo-sharing, ringtone-mixers, mash-ups and social networks may teach them a lot. Well, this may offer business model innovation opportunities as well … e.g. third-party recommendation and selection services and sheds a light on user-generated content as [...]

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Einführung in Tagging (und Web 2.0)

In der Telepolis habe ich einen lesenswerten Überblick über den Einsatz von Tags gefunden. Ergänzend dazu dieser Eintrag bei David Weinberger und dieser ‘rant’ von Dave Winer: The Web is real. The Semantic Web is an idea and Web 2.0 is a marketing concept used by venture capitalists and conference promoters to try to call [...]

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Needs + Solutions = Innovation

Komplexitätsorientiertes Innovationsmanagement kann eine zu enge Sicht von Innovation vermeiden. Nicht allein das „infusing [of] products [with] irresistible functionality or, better yet, creating products that customers need but have not yet even imagined“ steht im Fokus. Gelegentlich ist eben auch die Entwicklung von komplett Neuem notwendig, d.h. bevor die Nutzer erfassen können welche Bedürfnisse dadurch [...]

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