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Paul Graham of Y-Combinator publishes lists of what he thinks hot areas for startups. This helps channel his deal flow – this is, I think, a smart idea, and one of my motivations behind writing this blog. You can find his list here. The three that resonate most with me are: 3. New news. [...]
Last week I attended a Honda Earthdreams event at the kind invitation of 19 Entertainment. As well as the event being fun (Jensen Button talking, F1 car there to look at, lots of interesting people present…) I was struck by the strength and genuineness of the commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). [...] Carlotta Perez has long had a strong influence on my thinking, and a key part of that is the belief that the organisational structures and cultures that were optimal in the past may not be best going forward. She argues persuasively that the command and control mode of organisation that characterised the most successful [...]
Last week I blogged about Groups being an important concept, and I was making the point that you need tools to manage groups and that this might be a startup opportunity for someone. This excerpt from OnStartups where they have just migrated a group from LinkedIn to Facebook shows the customer pain [...] When I think about enterprise2.0 I think lightweight collaboration. For a while now I have been thinking that easy to use shared work spaces like Huddle and Basecamp is the main component. Recently I have started to think that micro-blogging is also important (status updates to Huddle anyone?). Today I am thinking ‘Groups’ is [...]
For those of you that haven’t come across the term before micro-blogging is the business of sending out small communications to your friends on a frequent basis. The main tools for this are Twitter, Jaiku and status updates on services like Facebook. This is a newish development and is one of those [...]
I wrote about the underlying principles of Wikinomics when I started reading the book in June – I’ve come to the end of it now and in addition to my thoughts on the principles I discussed last time (being open, peering, sharing, and acting globally) the sheer weight of examples in the [...]
I was reading Techcrunch about Telstra banning its employees from accessing Facebook (amazing people are still doing things like that) and when I got to the bottom of the article I got this link to a comment from Robert Scoble on a previous Facebook post: Tonight I interviewed Siemens Web Strategist. He [...] |
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