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NEXT09: domination = stagnation: now the crumbling empires

NEXT09 is one of Europe's most important conferences. It brings together some of the edgiest thinkers from around the world, people who challenge accepted norms and put some of the big issues into sharp relief. Today, Umair Haque and Andrew Keen provided conflicting yet paradoxically complementary views of what the...

Tags: Domination, Oracle Corp., NEXT09, Haque, Sales Force Management, Investment, Financial Services, Sales, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-05-05

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Reconciling social computing with the enterprise

Umair Haque wrote an impressive tract on his Harvard Business blog late last week about Twitter and how it changes the rules of innovation. It’s an incisive and challenging piece that well worth reading if your looking at cutting-edge business trends. It also helps surface what’s turning into an increasingly...

Tags: Social Computing, Social Networking, Blogging, Leadership, Strategy, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Management, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2009-06-08

NEXT09: deconstructing the enterprise gulf

Attending NEXT09 was a breath of fresh air for me. As seems to be the way, there's always a good showing by controversial polemicists. You won't for example get two more strident and different speakers than Jeff Jarvis and Andrew Keen. As an enterprisey guy, Keen's assessment...

Tags: Google Inc., Social Computing, Conference, CODA, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-05-07

Corrupting consolidation

The last week or so I've had a number of conversations with colleagues attempting to figure out how and why the enterprise software mega-players continue to get away with premium pricing during the worst recession in living memory. Why is it that Oracle can show its best...

Tags: Consolidation, Vendor, Wall Street, Vinnie, Agresso, Financial Planning, Strategy, Open Source, Finance, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-03-29

Facebookers: Choose your words more carefully

Facebookers: Choose your words more carefullyWhat planet are these pundits from?Facebook shouldn't have ads? That's like trying to say a profit is evil in today's economy. Without accepting a few hundred million investment from Microsoft and every other sideline venture Facebook is involved in, they would be bankrupt, washed out...

Tags: Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, advertisement

Discussion threads 2007-11-08

Facebookers: Choose your words more carefully

At the FourSquare Conference in New York put on by the private investment firm Quadrangle, Facebook CFO Gideon Yu made a gonzo statement that is being picked apart by the blogosphere. As reported by Sam Gustin of Portfolio, who apparently was the only journalist to witness the...

Tags: Facebook, Advertisement, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-08

The Attention Pool

I was going to call this post Morons in a Hurry in honor of the Fab Four trial quote by Apple Commuter's attorney, where the phrase was employed as in "Only a moron in a hurry wouldn't understand that iTunes wasn't a record company." Then I was going to call...

Tags: Umair Haque

Blog posts 2006-04-10

Seeing into the big, myopic Tiffany eye

I picked this up through CyberJournalist.net, which quoted a San Jose Mercury News interview with Larry Kramer, president of CBS Digital Media, on the importance of judgment in newsgathering and the news organization as the "magic" that makes...

Tags: CBS Broadcasting Inc.

Blog posts 2006-01-19

The rational question and the rational answer

All Your WEB 2.0 Are Suck!321#$$! Nick C says: "...: The rational question, of course, which Nick seems intent on not asking, is not whether 2.0 offers a perfect world - it's whether it offers a better world. That is, very simply, do the social benefits of 2.0 exceed the...

Tags: Umair Haque

Blog posts 2005-12-09

IP Doesn't Matter?

IP Doesn't Matter?A useful distinctionSteve: I was responding to Dave Winer's use of the term "amateur" in describing those who generate content without commercial motives: "As has recently been re-discovered, we have a word for this, a beautiful one, that we will come to appreciate again, in new ways -...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Umair Haque, IP

Discussion threads 2005-11-14

I want my Internet TV

I've received a lot of emails in response to my search for disruptive Web 2.0 start-ups. My apologies if I don't respond to your email in a timely manner, but rest assured I am actively reviewing and filtering all of the contenders. In today's post I'm...

Tags: video, Brightcove

Blog posts 2005-10-25

Where are the disruptive start-ups in Web 2.0?

Umair Haque thinks Web 2.0 economics is causing start-ups to focus more on getting acquired than creating real innovation. He wrote:"What made the Valley cool was it's refusal to think small, and do truly disruptive things. But getting a small change acquisition to essentially extend a Yahoo/Google/etc product line sets...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2005-10-19