Will the Digital Era Change Writing?

The rock album is dying, with digital services letting music fans cherry-pick individual songs they like. But will something similar happen to writing? Is the novel endangered by slice-and-dice nature of the Web? Interesting article from the WSJ comparing the Future of Books to the Present of Music. My take: Most non-fiction is better presented

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World in Figures

The Economist sent out its 2007 Pocket edition of the World in Figures book. It is always interesting to look at the world issues with statistical data. Here’s an interesting set – The largest countries (‘000 Sq Km) in the world are: 1. Russia 17,075 2. Canada 9,971 3. China 9,561 4. United States 9,373

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e-Tickets in India

Economic Times reports: “The growth in e-ticketing during 2006 over the previous year has been perhaps the highest in the world. According to industry data, shared exclusively with SundayET by Amadeus, a travel IT supplier which tracks the trend on a monthly basis, e-ticket penetration grew from a measly 10% in 2005 to 65% in

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Segments & Lifestyles: Working Women

Here is a report on the state of the internet in terms of targeting the Working Women demographic, a highly desirable segment, yet seemingly somewhat underserved from an advertising inventory point of view. Some possible positionings for content and services that would capture the attention of this audience: – A Personal Shopping service for the

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Palm’s Turnaround Formula

With the iPhone announcement, we enter an era when all the other smartphone providers need to now sit up and define their own clear positioning and path forward. With Steve Jobs working his PR machine, and the media lapping up the show and tell, it is imperative that Palm, for instance, decides where it goes

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Eager Parents

Here’s our report on Parents from the Segments and Lifestyles Series. 2007 could well be the year of the networked parents. Only other parents have the patience to listen to the endless details of kids’ stories that every parent has and wants to share, making this is a terrific social networking category! And given how

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Don’t Take Venture Money

Charles Moldow of Foundation Capital writes a good piece on when and why entrepreneurs should not look for Venture money. My addendum: There is a glut of good small business opportunities out there right now, especially because the Internet makes it ever so easy to market, generate traffic, etc. I want to also point out

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iPhone and the Future

by Frank Levinson, Guest Author When I was sitting with some friends recently, we began talking about Apple’s introduction of the iPhone. We all felt that this product was one with much more promise than many we had seen in the last few years. Why? From the most straightforward view, the features in the iPhone

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