Archive for December, 2005

Dailysonic going (Mass) Customized …

One of my favourite podcasts (only for the science parts, of course) got a little extra attention, read this article in RedHerring on the crew behind Dailysonic, a NYC-based show for the hipclectic crowd … Interesting are the pieces on the envisioned customizable future of the podcast, i.e. offering means for effective self-customization … [...] [...]

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Xbox vs. Apple …

Ein kleiner aber lesenswerter Artikel in der aktuellen FTD, der aber die Ziele und die Strategie von Microsoft rund um digitale Inhalte ganz gut verdeutlicht.

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Business Design for Designers

I found this article in the November 1998 issue of Mercer Management Journal via bplusd, a design-thinking blog by Jess McMullin. Funny that McMullins calls this newish, the article is now 7 years old. Here’s the abstract on the business design article: The discipline of Business Design is a means to capture value from the [...]

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Looking for revenue in TV …

This is interesting, it shows that TV networks, the movie industry etc. are starting to re-think their business models, one central question always being how to make money:

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Wikis (and other tools) in collaborative knowledge work

E-Mail is increasingly replaced by collaboration software like wikis and blogs, one thing that I have been pondering off lately (and thanks to Rod for triggering this off …) are the user acceptance/change management/etc. issues that rise when this stuff is implemented … While the fast adaptors on the web are digging (no pun intended) [...]

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TiVo will let subscribers choose ads

This is interesting. TiVo subscribers can subscribe to ads via a personalized profile. The TiVo device then scrapes fitting ads, which subscribers can watch when they want. So TiVo is expanding its business model smartly: Rather than alienating TV networks and advertisers with ad skipping functionality alone, they are offering a cool (opt-in) advertising channel [...]

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