All The News That Clicks | Newspapers, radio, TV, and magazines are scrambling to boost their Web presence.
July 20, 2005
Why Movie Theatre Revenues are Declining | Barry sums it up nicely. My theatre-going dropped drastically with the advent of DVDs, and especially NetFlix. IMHO, the DVD experience is far better than a theatre.
July 14, 2005
Feng Shui for Business Success | I really need to apply this to my desk and office. (I figured out the showering thing a few years ago.)
June 30, 2005
The Best Product Designs of 2005 | The winners of this year's Industrial Design Excellence Awards represent the best of the best, using design to reinvent old product categories, revive tired brands, and simplify complicated products
Small is the New Big | Seth Godin makes a great case for why smaller can often be better.
$80bn Google Takes Top Media Spot | Internet search phenomenon Google has overtaken a swathe of venerable rivals to become the world's biggest media company by stock market value.
March 21, 2005
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January 14, 2005
How big will the Mac Mini be? | Needham analyst Charles Wolf said that he now estimates 11 percent of iPod-toting Windows users may buy a Mac now that the Mini is on the market. Before that, he assumed the rate would be closer to 4 percent.
December 09, 2004
Amazon UK Rents DVDs | And so it begins. The rumors from several weeks ago were true after all.
BusinessWeek Profiles the Greatest Innovators of the Past 75 Years | As part of its anniversary celebration, BusinessWeek is presenting a series of weekly profiles of the greatest innovators of the past 75 years. Some made their mark in science or technology; others in management, finance, marketing, or government.
The Online Ad Surge | Brand advertising online has taken off -- and it's shaking up Madison Ave.
November 05, 2004
They Made America | Set your TiVos for this PBS documentary (the 'Rebels' episode features Russell Simmons & Ted Turner) -- This four-part series, based on the new book by Harold Evans (The American Century), examines the history of innovation in the United States and its impact around the world. By telling the stories of the inventive men and women who transformed the world, THEY MADE AMERICA explores the political, social, economic and environmental forces that made the United States an incubator for so much radical and far-reaching creativity. Evans provides on-camera commentary.
September 14, 2004
Out-eBaying eBay | Some interesting thoughts on decentralized e-commerce, with examples of companies that are thriving despite, or maybe even because of eBay
Forbes Celebrity 100 | Some interesting stats & profiles on the most powerful & highest earning celebs.
Tony Hawk - From Ramp to Riches | Tony Hawk made a fortune by making skateboarding cool. How will he keep the revenue coming in when he gives up his wheels?
One in Six Silicon Valley Tech Jobs Ripe for Offshoring | I still can't get over the irony off how outsourcing has turned the tables on the white collar workers who used to tell the outsourced blue collar workers to just go get retrained.
October 27, 2003
Rollin' with Rush | Russell Simmons, the godfather of hip-hop, has used street smarts and a platinum Rolodex to create a $300 million conglomerate. Now he's flexing his political muscle. Come inside the frenetic world of a modern entrepreneur.
Strong Debut for iTunes for PCs | I'm glad to see Apple doing so well in this space, but I still think the stock is over-valued.
August 30, 2003
How Everyday Things Are Made | explains the manufacturing process for products ranging from airplanes and steel to candy and clothes in a series of videos aimed at non-engineers.
Merrill Lynch Shackles Employee Net Access | Merrill Lynch today introduced a company-wide ban on access to third-party email services from corporate PCs. In a memo to staff, the investment banker said it was prohibiting workers from picking up or sending email through Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL and the like because of 'regulatory requirements' and as to cut off a possible route by which viruses might enter its network. Access to external message boards, chat rooms or forums have all become prescribed activities for Merrill Lynch workers. Using home email accounts at work has also been outlawed.
August 06, 2003
Apple's Strategic Shift | Comments (2)
| Rather than accept being a niche PC maker, Steve Jobs is transforming his baby into a high-end consumer-electronics and services company
July 19, 2003
Hip-Hop Anti-Barbie | Mattel is launching a line of hip hop fashion dolls -- 'Flavas' -- to appeal to older girls who no longer play with Barbie. The multi-ethnic dolls have an urban style and wear trendy clothing, flashy jewelry, and have larger heads. They are part of a strategy to compete with MGA's wildly popular Bratz, an edgy, big-headed 'doll with attitude' that is stealing Barbie's sales.
XML vs. EDI | Tight IT budgets make it tough for managers to stay at the cutting edge of technology, but in one area they may not have to bother. For now, electronic data interchange (EDI), the old system for exchanging business documents electronically, is at least as useful as its likely successor, and cheaper as well. Over the next five years, businesses would do well to hone their old systems while also preparing themselves for the new ones.
July 02, 2003
Internet Explorer Revolt? | Microsoft may have unwittingly started a revolt against its Internet Explorer (IE) browser by discontinuing it as a standalone product and blurring the future of the current version, IE 6.
June 20, 2003
The MP3 Economy | How labels and artists divvy up your MP3 dollar.
Operation Harry Potter | Using all the black magic it can muster, the book business gears up for its biggest release ever.
Hydrogen to the Rescue | A rising star at Accenture is advising Big Oil and the auto industry that they can revitalize the economy, mint profits, and save the planet -- if they'll just learn to stop worrying and love hydrogen.
Prime-Time Porn | Borrowing tactics from the old Hollywood studios, Vivid Entertainment has ditched the plain brown wrapper and is taking the multibillion-dollar sex-film industry mainstream.
Enron's Vaporware? | For all the seemingly black-and-white fraud allegations that have roiled Enron, the charges involving technology deception may present far more gray.
Confidential Apple music details leaked | An insight into the success of Apple's online music service has been provided by leaked details from a meeting with representatives from the independent record industry.
June 04, 2003
Ryze | A site to help expand your business network.
Fixing Venture Capital | An excellent analysis of what's wrong with the current venture capital model.
LinkedIn | An online service helping professionals find and connect with one another more effectively. Whether looking for jobs, a lead for that next deal, or seeking out an industry expert, members can make contact with thousands of professionals through a chain of trusted connections.
May 29, 2003
Net Boom, Act II | the effects of the Internet are only just beginning to be felt and will reach much further into our daily lives than the PC revolution did a decade ago.