Published a new post: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-18 http://cli.gs/Hn4M7 # Published a new post: Beware the halo effect http://cli.gs/PM8jJ # McKinsey talks about the changing social contract – social standards are coming to market based relationships – http://bit.ly/uh7pO # At web2.0 hearing very positive story on economy and tech from Mary Meeker [...]
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I had an interesting meeting this morning with two-time-entrepreneur turned Berkeley, Duke and Harvard based academic, Vivek Wadhwa who has a keen interest in understanding and promoting entrepreneurialism and startups. You can find some of his recent posts on Techcrunch here. We were talking about the history of the US startup scene and he [...] The last month or so has been a strong one from an M&A perspective, with Cisco making two $3bn acquisitions (Tandberg and Starent Networks), Intuit acquiring Mint for $170m and Adobe acquiring Omniture for $1.8bn – and that is just off the top of my head. Take this activity and add the rumours circling [...] We’ve all heard the old adage that the search problem is only 5% solved. My news today is that I got a much better idea of what the next few percent will look like, largely from a Microsoft sponsored session this morning here at the Web2.0 Summit talking where they are taking Bing. It [...] There was an interesting piece on ReadWriteWeb a couple of days ago reporting on some research from marketing firm Brand in Hand which found that female iPhone users are barely interacting with mobile ads. They are too busy using the phone to waste time clicking through to find out what might lie on the [...] There is a good piece in the Economist today on how misleading first impressions can lead to bad decisions due to the halo effect, particularly in recruitment and when assessing company performance. First a definition: [The halo effect] is the phenomenon whereby we assume that because people are good at doing A [...] Published a new post: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-11 http://cli.gs/aXjHW # RT @TCEurope: The $1.5 billion scramble for Vente Privee by Gilt, eBay and Amazon http://bit.ly/DYtW7 by @mikebutcher – that would be nice! # Published a new post: Musing on value attribution across the purchase journey http://cli.gs/1WUDW # RT @robinklein: The Problem With [...] As you may have seen, display advertising was the only part of the online mix to show negative growth in the UK in H1 this year (negative 5.2% as per the IAB). I think there are lots of reasons for that, not least the economy and growing questions over how much value gets [...] Check out the video below for some high tech future gazing on a 30-40 year scale from Ray Kurzweil. 23 minutes, but well worth it if you have any doubt that the pace of change is only going to accelerate from now. If the internet today was unimaginable 10 years ago imagine what we [...] Walt Mossberg yesterday reviewed two new touchscreen smartphones – the Blackberry Storm2 and the Android based Motorola Cliq. The runaway success of the iPhone was bound to attract competitors and in the words of Walt “new super-smart phones models seem to be appearing weekly”. The iPhone remains the gold standard but this is [...] |
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