Rob Kalin, co-founder of Etsy, talks about how the online marketplace for craft goods is taking off. He chalks it up to the Internet, whizzy Web 2.0 tools, the rise in craft-making, and consumers’ desire to know the artists behind the products Hier das MP3 des Interviews, das Heather Green von BusinessWeek mit Rob Kalin [...]
Tim O’Reilly offers another go at defining web 2.0, a compact definition: Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform. Chief among those rules is this: Build applications that harness network [...]
Scott Karp with excellent analysis of the media industry, convergence and business model innovation when scaled content businesses are becoming rare. Recommended. Can anyone think of a content business – meaning a company that produces original content – that has scaled dramatically in recent years? I can’t. Look at the businesses that have scaled – [...]
Stowe Boyd has serious doubts about Microsofts chances to enter the livingroom, and bets on Apple: The war for your living room is coming, and I am still betting on Apple — not Microsoft, not Sony, not Hollywood — to figure out the right combination of features and adaptors Add this to the recent analysis [...]
Azeem Azhar: Web 2.0 isn’t about the Internet, right on Web 2.0 is really about disaggregation, unbundling and rebundling of resources. […] means a bunch of changes for traditional firms. In particular: as a firm you need to move from a mode of control to a mode of co-ordination
James Surowiecki with this insightful piece, giving another perspective on the game-console market, add this to my post of yesterday The point is that business is not a sporting event. Victory for one company doesn’t mean defeat for everyone else. Markets today are so big-the global video-game market is now close to thirty billion dollars-that [...]
Some relevant posts that shall not go unnoticed … 1) Learning from Kodak’s strategic errors by Matt McAlister Kodak reinvented itself yet can’t get ahead in the new markets [...] how the speed at which new models take over markets is getting harder to manage [...] business models must iterate the way new technologies iterate [...]
