Avoid Risk, Sure. Then Die!

By Richard Laermer, Guest Author As some of you know, I’m the author of the book Punk Marketing (www.punkmarketing.com). The first article of the Punk Marketing Manifesto is probably the most powerful rule in marketing—and in business. Simply put it is Avoid Risk and Die.Some of our greatest successes as a country and as a

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Web 3.0 & Online Movies (Part 4)

Web 3.0 Formula Discussion Context Different users have different tastes and they visit the same movie site with very different intention. While one may like to watch an action flick the other might like to review a classic love story to watch with his or her date. These sites have something for every kind of

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Business Objects Looks Great

Business Objects (NASDAQ: BOBJ), a French company that provides business intelligence (BI) to enterprises, is riding high on superlative second quarter performance announced on July 25. All its 3 major revenue lines – licensed software (Q2/07 revenue $149 million, up 21% year-over-year), maintenance ($152 million, +23% y-o-y) and global services ($62 million, +29% y-o-y) –

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Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS) + Place

Yes, we need to add a new variable to the definition of Web 3.0, and that variable is Place. Imagine. You are on a business trip in New York, and you need to buy a gift for your 13 year old son. You need a Size 8 Nike Air Zoom, and you have exactly 30

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Making Search Engines Work Like Engines: Automatically

By Jörg Überla, Guest Author Isn’t it astounding? Within only a few years, the majority of the adult population in the industrialized world has learn’t that searching is a matter of the right keywords. You type in your request, get 100,000 something results and try to narrow them down. This is a fantastic business model

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Web 3.0 & Online Movies (Part 3)

Business Model Online Movie sites earn money mostly from advertisements, subscriptions and charges for movie rentals and download. Movie download revenues are forecasted to be $60 million in 2007, up from 133.4% in 2006. Movie download revenues are forecasted to cross $100 million in 2008. The online advertising industry is fast realizing the potential of

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Web 3.0 and Verticalization

I have worked with the Web 3.0 framework for months now, and taken a crack at defining how the web is likely to evolve in the future. So here’s a recap of the thesis so far. I will be adding a dimension to this framework shortly, so it is a good time to stop and

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Eric Benhamou & the Turnaround of 3Com (Part 18)

To conclude an extremely interesting interview, here is a final, reflective segment with Eric. We will continue the story of Palm separately, later in September, once Palm’s shareholder vote for the Elevation Partners deal is completed. SM: You have watched what happened since then. What lost 3Com the position you were in at the end

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