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Germany Gets Digitized

Posted on Monday, Jun 25th

By Jörg Überla, Guest Author In two years time, the days of analog TV transmission will be definitely over in Germany. Regardless whether you watch TV via cable, satellite or a simple antenna, you will receive just 0’s and 1’s when you turn on your TV. This digitization of the most time-consuming leisure activity in

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iPhone Competitors: Nokia’s Convergence Device Strategy

Posted on Monday, Jun 11th

WSJ has a good roundup on the various iPhone competitors. One of the top iPhone competitors is expected to be Nokia’s N95, a high-end smart phone that, like the iPhone, has a relatively large color screen (2.6 in), can surf the Web and can play music and DVD-quality video. Unlike the iPhone, the N95, however,

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Blue Nile’s Remedy

Posted on Tuesday, May 29th

David Philips wrote an article on Seeking Alpha, called On Blue Nile’s Lackluster Business Strategy last week. Those who have followed the company for a long time, know, that Blue Nile (Nasdaq: NILE) is one of those rare gems, a dotcom era survivor. In many ways, they are a posterchild of a business that exploited

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Web 3.0 & Online Travel: Synthesis

Posted on Tuesday, May 15th

Today anyone with an Internet access and Credit card can just like that, plan for a week’s tour to South Africa or the Himalayas, thanks to the travel sites who offer trip planning at your finger-tips – flight booking, hotels and car rentals along with the reviews of the hotels, places of interest, and information

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Time Warner’s Ad Network Move

Posted on Monday, May 14th

In a previous post, I discussed Time Warner’s digital media strategy. In this one, I will analyze their move into Ad Networks, via an investment in Adify, a small company providing technology infrastructure services for building and running ad networks. [If you are new to the field on online advertising, please read my interview with

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Web 3.0 and Priceline

Posted on Wednesday, May 2nd

We have been discussing the online travel industry and have covered Yahoo! Travel, TripAdvisor, Travelocity, Orbitz and Expedia from a Web 3.0 perspective earlier. Here we will take a look at Priceline’s offering. Priceline founded in 1997 is an online travel agency headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut. The site provides a wide array of travel services

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Web 3.0 and Expedia

Posted on Tuesday, May 1st

We have been discussing the online travel industry and have covered Yahoo! Travel, TripAdvisor, Travelocity and Orbitz from a Web 3.0 perspective earlier. Here we will take a look at Expedia’s offering. Expedia is the largest online travel content company, headquartered in Bellevue, WA. The Company is the third largest travel company in the US,

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Wize Needs Integrated User Experience

Posted on Friday, Apr 27th

We have reviewed the business story of Wize.com, now let’s take a look at their product from my Web 3.0 framework perspective. Context The Context in which you would come to Wize, is Product Research. The key to Wize is the Wize Rank, which is algorithmically derived from Expert Reviews and User Reviews culled from

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