…thanks to social networks, virtual products can benefit from viral marketing, leading to 000,000′s if not millions of sales. Those numbers start to add up. However, we are beginning to see that viral growth can have a sting in the tail…
Harvard Business School’s ‘Working Knowledge’ web site has an excellent article exploring how to quantify the economic impact of the Internet. You can read the article here. One interesting snippet included in the article is a TNS study reporting on the leading activities of Internet users: As noted in the article, the majority of activities [...]
Stop the clocks, blogging has recommenced Couple of cheat posts coming up, starting with this one, which are really reproductions of comments I’ve left on other posts but with added juice. Henry Blodget posted the following article on Silicon Valley Insider: It’s time for Microsoft to face the reality about Search and the Internet It’s [...]
Two interesting articles that share a common theme – the expected value from buying software. In The Future of Enterprise Software – I am so scared, I am so excited, Chris Balavessov writes about how Waste Management is suing SAP after purchasing a $100m system that failed to work as demonstrated. Apparently, SAP have already [...]
A fabulous article in The Guardian is a must read for anyone interested in information technology and where it is heading in terms of societal impact – Thanks Gutenberg, but we’re too pressed for time to read. Central to the article is that popular quote – we over-estimate what’s possible in the short term and [...]
