Only a few years ago nobody would have thought that companies like Intel, Apple, or Google would be scrambling and throwing their muscle around to be in your living room, and not in any place, but inside the “dumb box” that will be not “dumb” any more, your TV. Only last week Intel, Sony, Google […]
Online Sourcing Marketplaces: Looking for The Tipping Point (Part 1)
Part 1: Sorting out the OSM Platforms We’ve been a bit baffled. The tech and business world have recently been abuzz with stories on crowdsourcing, open innovation, Enterprise 2.0 and other web 2.0-enabled models that are about to reshape today’s business. Just a few years back — about 2005– the topic of outsourcing and offshoring […]
Monetizing Micro-Blogging
= $$$ ? The use of Micro-Bogging tools (particularly Twitter) has taken off over the past year. Twitter is now hosting over 7 million unique users every month, which is a more than 1000 percent increase from a year ago. This high level of user growth has been accompanied by a skyrocketing company valuation, which […]
What’s up in the air? It’s not planes! – How data predictions are impacting our lives
You have most probably been following quite closely the recent travel chaos in Europe. I certainly did, since I was one of those that went from “up in the air” to “up on a train”, experiencing a new notion of distance. It’s when traveling from Germany to Spain takes two days, rather than 2 hours. […]
