Given how late in the day it is, I suspect everyone is almost over the 2008 US election.
But I wanted to add a note about my experience in trying to monitor the election online today.
I watched the CNN TV coverage live, but wanted to compare/contrast their stats with that of other […]
A recent survey by McKinsey highlights the growing challenge faced by marketers in deciding how to allocate their media spending:
The rapid growth of online advertising hides a serious challenge: the digital world has developed faster than the tools needed to measure it…A June 2008 McKinsey digital-advertising survey of 340 senior […]
Michael Heller has just released an ebook Gridlock Economy: The Tragedy of the Anticommons, which provides a short overview of the thinking encapsulated in his new book by the same name.
It provides an interesting counter-point to the growing trend of co-creation and co-ownership of various assets, from (physical) property through to software, knowledge […]
It’s has been a fair while since my last post, as I’ve been grappling with some interesting strategy issues for a client project.
However, I’ve been having a few conversations with friends and colleagues about the likely impact of the recent economic crisis on the ‘Web 2.0’ scene. These conversations reminded me of a […]
I recently had cause to investigate how you might use a utility/cloud computing service, like Amazon S3, to provide an efficient and modestly priced solution to serving up video-on-demand content services, as an alternative to the more traditional offerings of streaming video platform providers.
I was impressed by the level of intelligence behind not […]
I just had a quick scan through a report by JP Morgan’s Internet analyst Imran Khan, titled Nothing But Net, released in January 2008.
In an almost throw away line, he notes that "ore than 80% of online inventory currently sells for less than a $1 CPM," with an average CPM rate of just […]
If you’ve ever found yourself asking yourself what happened to your day, here is some potential insight into the answer…(from the New York Times)
The question becomes: what behaviours will you change to reduce the amount of time spent doing ‘unproductive’ activities?
Technorati Tags: Information Worker, Email Management, Interruptions, […]
In the past three years, we have witnessed emergent signals of a radical change in the nature of the Internet. Like the transition that preceded it, where its focus shifted from its original, technological orientation to a content-centric positioning, this next phase will bring a dramatic shift in fortunes for some of the major players.
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I’ve been invited to sit on a judging panel at a pitch session being held on Friday by the Mobile Enterprise Growth Alliance (MEGA).
Over the past 4 months, 10 teams of entrepreneurs have been mentored through the process of fine tuning their business concepts, and the pitch session is designed as a dress […]
A scan of recent activity in the Australian start-up sector suggests that, for many Australian new ventures, launch planning is rooted in a single, dominant objective: ensuring the business is “born global.” Nowhere is this mindset more apparent than among software-based start-ups, led by organisations such as Atlassian, Tangler, Freshview, and 3eep, among many.
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