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- The Accelerator Conundrum
- The Startup Velocity Question
- Platform as a Service
- Man and Superman
- Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS)
- The Future: End of Capitalism
- Capitalism 2.0
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Today’s Two Big Acquisitions
Sun is buying open source database maker MySQL for $1 Billion. More than 100 million copies of MySQL’s database software have been downloaded and 50,000 copies are downloaded daily. MySQL had raised $39 million from Benchmark, Index, IVP, Intel, and SAP, and was in IPO discussions. It’s good to see that MySQL has found a
Good SaaS Blogs
We’ve been discussing SaaS at length, and will continue to do so. Here are some other blogs that also offer good perspectives on the topic. Rough Type: Nicholas Carr writes on technology, business, and culture. He writes about the future of computing, especially “utility-computing”, his nomenclature of the SaaS trend. Software As Services: At ZDNet,
Web 3.0 & Amazon (Part 5)
Conclusion We have reviewed Amazon’s strategy in the upcoming Web 3.0 world over the last few days. Amazon has been focusing on enhancing its technology, introducing new categories of products and services (recently introduced, Amazon MP3 and Grocery), increasing depth of selection in each category, opening new markets (UK, Germany, Japan), offering better shopping tools
Web 3.0 & Amazon (Part 3)
Web 3.0 Framework discussion Below is a quick overview of the Web 3.0 framework for the Amazon sites. Context Amazon’s primary Context is shopping. Whether it is for books, music, toys, or clothes, you come to Amazon to shop. Content Amazon has really good content about its merchandise. In fact, the Amazon catalog is a
Web 3.0 & MSN (Part 5)
Conclusion Microsoft has been reorganizing and rebranding its online properties. The Company has rebranded MSN Messenger and Hotmail as Windows Live Messenger and Windows Live Hotmail. Microsoft is working on improving the underlying technology behind MSN and introducing new features but all this is yet to trickle down to the bottomline. There are rumors of
Web 3.0 & Yahoo! (Part 3)
Web 3.0 Framework discussion Below is a quick overview of the Web 3.0 framework for the Yahoo! sites. We have not gone into the details of all the properties, but you can review the Web 3.0 section of this site for detailed discussions on some of the vertical categories. However, here are some examples of
Eric Benhamou: The Saga Of Palm (Part 11)
SM: So services as a key strategic initiative you think is still in beta! EB: Well, this was a core opportunity. In the Spring of 2005, at an annual strategy board meeting, it was decided that a key goal for the company would be in the subscription area. We had not been able to execute
Offshoring Secrets:Offshoring versus Outsourcing
By Utkarsh Rai, Guest Author, Author of “Offshoring Secrets”. Offshoring and Outsourcing are two words that are often used interchangeably. For the purpose of this article let us define the terms in a simple manner: “offshoring”, where the organizations decide to open their own captive center in another country; “outsourcing”, where the company decides to
