Why Big Media's Anti-Google Counter-Revolution Will Fail - Umair. By Umair Haque | 10:43 AM November 25, 2009 The Empire always strikes back.
Every revolution inspires a counter-revolution. Vers La richesse des réseaux. Mythes et réalités des usages mobiles dans les pays en développe.
July 2009 News. August 2009 news. September 2009 news. Innovation. December 2009. Real time web. Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist. The magic of dynamic pricing. Status quo seekers in publishing are now talking about delaying Kindle and other ebook editions of their new books.
The idea would be to come out with a hardcover, then a few months later an ebook, then a year later a paperback. This is lame-brained thinking on many levels, one involving teaching the market a lesson . Leaving that aside, it ignores the magic of dynamic pricing. When you produce a physical good like a book, it's really hard to change the price over time, especially if there are retail stores involved. But changing the price on an electronic good is trivially easy. So, for example, you could charge $24 for the Kindle edition for the first two weeks, then $15 for the next two weeks and then $9 for the year after that.
Social media 'could transform public services' Social media could transform the NHS and other public services in the same way that file-sharing changed the music industry, a conference has heard.
Growing use of tools, such as Facebook and Twitter, offered an opportunity to reinvent services, delegates heard. The MyPublicServices event debated ways to harness these conversations, many of which are critical, to make services better and more inclusive. If this was not done, many services would be undermined, speakers said. "It's happened to the music and travel industries and it's going to happen to public services," said Dr Paul Hodgkin, founder of the Patient Opinion site that organised the MyPublicServices conference.
Said Dr Hodgkin: "The question is how do we cope with it in a useful and productive way and not spend decades beating each other up? " Capturing stories Dr Hodgkin created Patient Opinion to capture stories about what happened to people when they got medical treatment. Who Made America? Venture Capital A Frenchman with a cool eye formed a publicly traded company to assess thousands of business proposals -- and funded the best ones, inventing the modern practice of venture capitalism.
Management Expert Georges Doriot was a pioneer in the development of venture capital in the 1950s. Born in France in 1899, he came to the U.S. to get an M.B.A. and extended his stay, working for an investment bank and teaching at Harvard Business School. One of his most popular courses was on business start-ups. Over a 40-year teaching career, he would influence thousands of top students, including Fred Smith, the founder of FedEx. Improvements for the Army During World War II, Doriot joined the U.S. Venture Capital After the war, Doriot returned to teach at Harvard, where he would remain on faculty until 1966. The Builders' Manifesto - Umair Haque. Dear World Leaders, This relationship isn’t working out.
Its time for us to explore other government opportunities. We’ve tried to make it work. But it’s not us — it’s you (really). I’ve been thinking a lot about leadership lately. The answer I’ve come to is, ironically enough, leadership itself. Let’s face it. Leadership was built for 20th century economics. Leaders don’t lead. The Equity Equation. July 2007 An investor wants to give you money for a certain percentage of your startup.
Should you take it? You're about to hire your first employee. How much stock should you give him? These are some of the hardest questions founders face. Rôle des technologies de l’information et de la communication da. Mythes et réalités des usages mobiles dans les pays en développe. Who Made America? Video Gaming A Utah inventor brought the world new kinds of fun: computer games and family-friendly restaurants with game facilities.
His work on electronic entertainment led to a multibillion-dollar industry. Electronics + Graphics + Games = Fun As the inventor of Pong, Nolan Bushnell is considered by many to be the "father of electronic gaming. " Bilan 2009, perspectives 2010 - AFP-MediaWatch. S 20 Favorite iPhone Apps of 2009. 2009 was the “year of the app,” especially for the iPhone, whose App Store is overflowing with more than 100,000 offerings.
While it’s easy to make fun of the more ridiculous apps, some truly stellar wares stood out from that massive pile, and we’re taking the time to honor them. We recently published Wired readers’ favorite iPhone apps of 2009, as well as Apple’s top picks. Now it’s our turn. The Wired staff has chosen its 20 favorite apps, broken into separate categories: productivity, games, hobbies, and travel and outdoors. These are apps we deemed exceptional either for their innovation, elegant design, usefulness or a combination of all these qualities.