Thursday, June 17, 2010

June 2010 Early Indications II: Book Review of Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age

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To those of us who for a long time have tried to understand the many impacts of the Internet, Clay Shirky stands among a very small group of...
Friday, June 11, 2010

Early Indications June 2010: World Cup special on sports brand equity

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It's a familiar business school discussion.  "Let's talk about powerful brands," begins the professor.  "Who comes to...
Saturday, May 22, 2010

May 2010 Early Indications: Devising the cloud-aware organization

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As various analysts and technology executives assess the pros and cons of cloud computing, two points of consensus appear to be emerging: A)...
Thursday, April 29, 2010

Early Indications April 2010 The Web of Opinion: Metadata as conversation

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In the beginning, there was data, enumerating how many, what kind, where. Data was kept in proprietary formats and physically located: if t...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

March 2010 Early Indications: Behaviorism, Online

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One of the consequences of the ubiquity of our communications tools is a shift away from fascination with and the need for expertise in the ...
Saturday, February 27, 2010

Early Indications February 2010: Ticket Punching

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As one surveys the landscape of industries whose business models have been transformed by the Internet, airline ticketing and travel agents ...
Monday, January 25, 2010

Early Indications January 2010: Do You Remember?

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Looking back over the 30 or so years of the personal computing era, I'm struck by how easily we discard the past, how often we miss a re...
Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Early Indications December 2009: Yet Another Predictions Issue

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In this last week of 2009, it's scary to think that it was a full ten years ago that the IT profession was holding its collective breath...
Monday, November 23, 2009

November 2009 Early Indications: Prediction Scorecard

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As is our custom, every November we revisit the previous year's predictions. Given that one of the dominant themes of 2009 has been sta...
Saturday, October 31, 2009

Early Indications October 2009: The Exploding Mobile Web

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This newsletter is about numbers, specifically these: 9 103,000 66 4,932 60 100,000 We'll take these in turn. According to Morgan Stanle...