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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Stop Distracting Steve Jobs

After Personal Computing, Film, Music, Steve Jobs is now tackling the Cellular Phone business, and with such aplomb, that one wonders why the SEC and the media would not simply leave him alone to do his thing … work his magic, wave his wand, think, feel, play … whatever it is that gives him the

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Triumph of the Nerds

The theme has been played with so many different storylines over the last thirty some years. And now, yet again, the web’s developments are rewriting another new script along these lines. On the Internet, if you are trying to launch a new product, service or site, and if the Geeks have appetite for your offering,

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Sports Portals & Social Networking

Being in India these past few days, I am reminded how much of the content that is marketed in India (and the world) is related to Sports. The newspapers devote a lot of front page real estate to Sourav Ganguly’s ups and downs, as India plays South Africa. The IFA Shield soccer tournament is on,

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LinkedIn Has Found Its Groove?

Here’s a good article on LinkedIn. I have written about them before, a year or more ago, and at the time, they hadn’t yet quite hit their stride. Since then, the social networking craze has become a mainstream phenomenon. LinkedIn’s positioning seems to have become a “see and be seen” place for professionals, with recruiters

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Content Packaging

Rafat Ali reports on a Bear Stearns report suggesting that content packaging is the key opportunity going forward, with the following image of the content foodchain: Om also has his 2c to add about the fatbelly, saying that the MyYahoo or NetVibes kind of personalized content aggregation plays are the most important going forward. There

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What’s Cooking on the Internet?

Morning after Thanksgiving, so I hope all of you, American Readers, are well stuffed. Here’s a research report called What’s Cooking on the Internet? surveying the Food and Cooking websites, celebrating America’s greatest food-oriented tradition. And here’s a link to food blogs on the internet.

Serial Entrepreneur: Manoj Saxena (Part 2)

In our second part of the interview we delve into Exterprise, the first business venture by Manoj. SM: What was your first company? MS: It was basically a business collaboration platform, a company called Exterprise. We started that in June of 1998 and we sold it in March of 2001. We grew pretty rapidly from

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