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Has Twitter just bought itself a business model?: Has Twitter just bought itself a business model?Identi.caPersonally, I'm betting on Laconica services like Identi.ca. The ability to host your own server (with whatever tweaks you like, since it's open source) and still interact with the entire community SHOULD make it a Twitter-killer.RE: Has Twitter just bought itself a business...; Tags: Strategy, Twitter, business model; Discussion threads 2008-07-09
What could Open Office do with a business model?: You can say Microsoft has found a way to crush open source. Or you can say open source has been shown a business model it can use to crack the mass market and gain a sustainable revenue base. by Dana Blankenhorn; Tags: Software-as-a-service, Business Model, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice, Software As A Service (SaaS), Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Emerging Technologies, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-07-05
New business models for medical device makers: In an attempt to keep sales high for its high-end medical diagnostic gear Philips is introducing some new business models. These business models are being tried first in Europe but if they work they might be imported. A managed service model which includes a...; Tags: Medical Device, Business Model, Relief, Potato, Strategy, Management, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-03-19
Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Semantic Web is open for business: Earlier this month I had the great pleasure to spend time talking with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and now Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in Cambridge, MA. Our wide-ranging dig into the past, present and future of the Semantic...; Tags: Social Networking, Web, Application, Tim Berners-Lee, Business Model, Transcript, Tim, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-02-26
Strategic Sourcing of Transaction Processing: From the Back Office to the Boardroom: The financial services industry is undergoing a radical transformation driven by globalization, deregulation, consolidation, and deconstruction of the vertically integrated business models common to transaction-processing businesses. In these uncertain times, unconventional business models that deconstruct traditional structures such as vertically integrated manufacturing and processing businesses are likely to offer more...; Tags: Sourcing, Boston Consulting Group Inc., Transaction Processing, Business Model, Back-office, Financial Services Industry, Globalization, Strategy, Databases, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; White papers 2008-02-14

Silobreaker pitches 'insight as a service': Silobreaker offers a new twist on news aggregation and search navigation. The free service, which was introduced at Demo 08, offers several views of news, with more than 20,000 data sources (including news sites,blogs, and research institutions) poured into the index. The company claims that it provides...; Tags: Business Model, Service, Silobreaker, Trends, Productivity, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2008-01-30
Symantec: Securing new devices will require new approaches, business models: Symantec: Securing new devices will require new approaches, business modelsHow about catching the "video activeX" trojanI am still finding it on pc's running current versions of Norton. If combofix can remove it, why can't norton?RE: Symantec: Securing new devices will require new approaches, business modelsSymantec should buy an endpoint encryption...; Tags: SECURITY, Strategy, Symantec Corp., Securing, McAfee Inc., business model; Discussion threads 2008-01-24
Hey, I love you too, guy: Hey, I love you too, guySeems to me that SO.CAL Guy did his homework very well......considering you had to dig out an article from Feb 2006 to try and refute what he said (which it didn't considering the Feb '06 article had absolutely nothing to do whatsoever with the trash...; Tags: Strategy, Engineering Principles, zealot, business model; Discussion threads 2008-01-24
Pity the fools at Time-Warner: Contrary to the spin of Time-Warner, bits don't have a cost. (This is a real product, a bandwidth meter using the image of Mr. T.) What costs is two-way bandwidth, equipment to transmit it and the labor needed to install and maintain it. It's the capacity for...; Tags: Network, Fact, Business Model, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-01-21
Competing on Customer Intelligence: Building Competitive Advantage Based on the Four P's Three I's of Marketing: This white paper has discussed some of the market forces leading marketers to shift to a customer-centric business model and how they are integrating the technologies required for success. They are going well beyond using technology to automate their old business models. These marketing innovators are building new customer-centric business...; Tags: Customer Intelligence, Marketing, Insight, Knowledge, Competitive Advantage, Business Model, Strategy, Management; White papers 2007-12-01
Radiohead and the search for content business models: Radiohead and the search for content business modelsRemember when Stephen King...... published a book on the internet? Most people chose free then, as well.Relying on people to choose to pay is not an effective business model. Particularly when the product is considered likely to be disposeable after one...; Tags: Strategy, content business model, Radiohead, business model; Discussion threads 2007-11-06
Radiohead and the search for content business models: Early results are in on Radiohead's experiment in "name your price" music with their album In Rainbows. Most people chose free. These are early returns. A CD's economic lifespan can be two years. Given the millions still being raked-in by Elvis Presley, John Lennon...; Tags: Game, CD, Business Model, Music, Radiohead, Strategy, Management, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-11-06
Google looks like mobile Linux break-out: Like Patton cutting across France, Google looks set to give mobile Linux its worldwide breakout with its GPhone announcement, now expected on November 5. After parsing through all the stories and speculation, it seems Google will announce a mobile Linux reference platform, an initial manufacturer, and an...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Mobile, Business Model, Mobile Linux, Carrier, Linux, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-10-12
Does suing customers make business sense?: The RIAA is feeling pretty good about itself this morning. Not only did it win a $220,000 civil judgement against Jammie Thomas of Minnesota for using Kazaa, but mainstream media reported she was "found guilty." The lobby had won smaller settlements against thousands of people before...; Tags: RIAA, Fact, Business Model, Strategy, Internet, Management, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-10-05
Code search has become a product category: Code searching, which started just a few years ago with enterprises trying to prise open source code from their files, has become a product category with a variety of business models. CEO Darren Rush of Koders.Com says tools like his Koders Pro Edition are changing the way teams...; Tags: Open Source, Business Model, Koders, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-09-12
SaaS now ready to succeed where ASPs failed -- especially for smaller businesses: Read a full transcript of the podcast. There is an entire universe of suppliers and vendors that support the delivery of applications as on-demand services. Indeed, the Software as a Service SaaS model is attracting more than end users who acquire their IT via user-per-month service subscriptions....; Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Microsoft ASP, ISV, Business Model, Service Provider, Market, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Emerging Technologies, Management, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2007-08-29
No one has to buy anybody: Our own Matt Asay has a piece out today lambasting Tim O'Reilly for a comment that, in the end, proprietary software outfits will gobble up all the open source guys.Having read the thread to which Matt refers, I suspect he's playing the old "take things out of context" game to...; Tags: Software, General Electric Co., Open Source, Business Model, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-08-15
Predicting the next phase of the Internet: Will the Internet still be here in 20 years? Of course it will, but that was the question asked of Nick McKeown, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford; Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun; and Phil McKinney, vice president and CTO of the Personal Systems Group at...; Tags: Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, Security, SaaS, Personal Technology, iPhone, General, Broadband; Blog posts 2007-08-02
Twitter lands VC funding: Twitter has landed an undisclosed amount of venture funding from Union Square Ventures and now it can proceed with its to-do list: Grab more users, develop its platform and find a business model.That last point is likely to get some attention today, but a snazzy business model isn't required--at least...; Tags: Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, Mobile, General; Blog posts 2007-07-27
RIAA hit with $68,000 in attorney's fees: RIAA hit with $68,000 in attorney's feesAnd charge them 1% interest per daycompounded, for every day that they drag their heels and refuse to pay. These greedy bottom dwellers at the RIAA deserve no sympathy, no pity, and no mercy.restraining the RIAAI am really getting tired of hearing the RIAA...; Tags: Advertising & Promotion, business model, RIAA; Discussion threads 2007-07-17