‘Business Models et al.’ Archive

Power of (open) technology

Jeff Atwood on the real power of netbooks: these modest little boxes are marvels — inspiring evidence of the inexorable march of powerful, open computing technology to everyman and everywhere Add to this Kevin Kelly in his interview at orionmagazine and you’ll see what I mean. And now go and watch Jason Calacanis rant on […]

Next Conference 2010

I am not sure if I can make it then – but the mission sounds just right: The motto for the next conference is Game Changers. Game Changers break rules and redefine business models. They are innovative and take risks, free from the burdens of mass marketing and mainstream. Companies that change the game bet […]

Profits, passion, purpose

This has been a highlight of this second day at LeWeb 2009. Tony Hsieh, CEO, Zappos.com, blew away the crowd this morning at LeWeb with an inspiring speech about meaning/purpose and happiness. A long applause followed his presentation. Sebastien compiled a write-up of Tony’s talk here, some tasty bits on the real success factors in […]

Unentschieden

Wünsch Dir was ist ein kleines Experiment, welches auf Basis des Twitter Profils einige Produkte empfiehlt.Vielleicht eine Methode, die bald anstehende Frage nach dem Weihnachtswunsch einfacher zu beantworten.Der Dienst setzt dabei auf den Amazon Produktkatalog auf. Jeder Anwender hat die Möglichkeit von einem beliebigen anderen Twitter Nutzer die Wünsche zu erfassen und zu modifizieren. OK, […]

How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love The Internet

gefunden auf dem Fischmarkt, via Nico, via Konstantin Posted via web from frogpond’s posterous

asklab @ bmid (weekly status report)

6 steps to enhance your wiki’s chances of being STOLEN, and the patterns to make it happen | Future Changes STOLEN principle – 6 basic features each identified by the letters STOLEN, which if considered could increase the wikis chances of being successful Specific Overall Objective – Magnet, FAQ Timely – Set Window of Discussion, […]

Apple, Google and Microsoft’s Size Problem

via slideshare.net I like the three derived strategies on slide 16 – they are sound, yet the underlying starting points and rationales are a bit flawed I think: 1. Open source OS are left out of the strategic analysis (and this has different implications for the contenders) – think of Jolicloud, UbuntuNetbookRemix, Moblin, and YES […]