Lunchtime break, good time to review what’s come in on RSS over the past couple of hours. Reading a news item on the BBC about Global Flyer, the jet plane in which US adventurer Steve Fossett plans to fly non-stop around the world early next year without refuelling. The high-profile backer of Global Flyer is […]
Category: Business
An artful start from ChangeThis
I read through The Art of the Start last night, a manifesto I downloaded from the ChangeThis website. ChangeThis, driven by Seth Godin and launched on 13 August, is an interesting concept: a form of media that uses existing tools (like PDF files, blogs and the web) to challenge the way ideas are created and […]
A Real music battle
Real Networks mounts a big challenge to Apple’s iTunes in an effort to win market share at Apple’s expense, according to a BBC News report yesterday: BBC NEWS | Business | Real in online music price war Then, one post by Steve Rubel on his Micro Persuasion blog reported that Real had set up a […]
Google cuts IPO price
In a sign that Google’s initial public offering isn’t as popular as expected, the Internet search engine has slashed the price range for its IPO and reduced the size of the issue, according to a Wall Street Journal report today. The surprise announcement, made in an email to investors, dramatically changes the size of the […]
Yahoo! launches corporate blog
Yahoo! launched a blog yesterday. The first post is an intro by Jeff Weiner, SVP Yahoo! Search & Marketplace, so it’s kicked off with a solid business/customer focus. And, the blog starts out with commenting and trackbacks enabled. Yahoo! Search blog On his personal blog, Jeremy Zawodny of Yahoo! (Finance) has an FAQ about the […]
Microsoft localization traps
You think selling software in multiple countries is easy? You have localized your product, your distribution infrastructure is set, support systems ready, all the elements in place, and off you go, right? Take a look at some of Microsoft’s experiences over the past 10 years, presented at a conference to address why multi-national corporations must […]
Googling the market
The IPO is done, investors have made some immediate gains and the dust is settling. As Internetnews.com reports, Google must grow bigger, smarter and stronger or face being overtaken by powerful rivals such as Yahoo! and MSN, and compete not only on its stock price but also on its core technology and its marketing. Internetnews.com […]
ChangeThis adds new manifestos
Ten days after ChangeThis launched (see my post), five new manifestos have been added to the library for viewing and download from today. Two in particular caught my attention: This I Believe! – Tom’s 60 TIBs. Tom Peters is back with more Big Ideas for your job, your company, and your life. The marketing and […]
FT on business blogs as key influencers
The Financial Times published a piece last weekend on business blogging. Originally published by the Irish Times, the article is the latest big-media reporting on this topic. Overall, the article discusses the importance blogs have gained in their role as influencers of opinion. Excerpts: They were once seen as the preserve of the geek, but […]
E.piphany CEO secrets of success
From BBC News – The values that guide and focus E.piphany CEO Karen Richardson: Being ethical and always sticking to your principles will pay off in the end. There is no short way or quick remedy to success, just do it the right way even if it takes a little longer. Proudest moments in her […]
Gartner tech ‘hype cycles’ 2004
Caught an interesting story on BBC News that reports on recent analysis by IT industry analysts Gartner with predictions on which technologies will become part of everyday life in the future. The BBC report discusses in general terms where Gartner think consumer technologies are heading. Here’s a visual look: BBC NEWS | Technology | Peering […]
CEO Bloggers’ Club launched
Guillaume du Gardier has started a blog for CEOs. Launched from France, Guillaume says this initiative is expected to give CEOs around the globe a blog to share their experiences in blogging and off lines conferences, with the first to take place in Paris in early October. Two conditions to join the Club are required: […]
Sun to develop enterpise blogging tools
Sun Microsystems plans to include Roller blogging technology as part of its enterprise software, according to an Internetnews.com report today. Roller is server-based weblogging software designed to support multiple simultaneous blog users and visitors. To kick start this, Sun has hired Dave Johnson, the founder of Roller, to “design, develop, and deploy the primary blogging […]
Expanding blogs to make money
From the Financial Times, 1 September: There are lots of ways to make money with weblogs. Henry Copeland’s Blogads.com is helping politicians raise campaign funds. Nick Denton’s Gawker Media is accumulating huge audiences with an editorial mix of sex, politics and gossip. Brian Stelter sold Cablenewser.com to a company that wanted more traffic for its […]
US leads in corporate governance
A Financial Times report says that US companies have risen to the top of a global comparison of corporate governance standards, overtaking the UK and Canada for the first time. A study of more than 2,500 international companies found the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) and other reforms implemented following recent scandals such as Enron and WorldCom […]
Their perception is your reality
If the single most important thing to any business is its reputation, then Oracle Corporation is in deep trouble. From a report published this week by market research firm Techtel: In 2Q04, opinion of Oracle by US IT professionals reached the lowest level in twelve years. This declining opinion, even against a background of declining […]
No messing about in China
China executes bank employees in fraud crackdown. Pretty extreme. There would definitely never have been an Enron or Worldcom fraud in China. CNN | China executes bank staff for fraud (Via Dvorak Uncensored.) Speaking about China, Loïc le Meur has some good tips on working around the Chinese restrictions/censorship on internet access if you want […]
PR policy for Microsoft blogger
Robert Scoble is undoubtedly the most high-profile and best-known Microsoft employee blogger – if not the best-known business-technology blogger, period – certainly in business and technology blogging circles and in the media. Robert’s blog Scobleizer and his link blog Scoble present reliable and trusted sources of rich information about what’s going on at Microsoft as well as […]
New Sony blog service?
This is a time when I wish I spoke Japanese. There’s a Japanese-language website called So-net blog with a copyright notice at the bottom saying ‘Sony Communication Network Corporation’ and the only English word you can see in the help page text is ‘blog.’ Is this another consumer blog service Sony is launching in Japan? […]
Have something worth talking about
Seth Godin posted a list of 10 lies to protect the status quo. The one I think is especially spot on is lie #10: Who you know is more important than what you do. This is how Seth expounds #10: When your idea is gaining traction, the easy and obvious and natural thing to do […]