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New Media and Google Android - You Don’t See That?!

Android will also pull video onto mobile platforms such as the iPhone SDK or Google’s Android, but first successful commercialization of services will more likely come from hardware vendors than from current Web2.0 applications.

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The Difference Between Divorces and Jobs

In recently helped out at plotting the future of a company after being acquired. On a side note, I had an almost philosophical discussion with friend that studies psychology whether or not marriages are easier divorced than jobs quit. My argument was that marriages are much more emotional, and failure will hurt much more [...]

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Digital Entertainment Evolution - TiVo Gets It.

TiVo announces YouTube videos on TiVo box, including YouTube’s long awaited API and YouTube Everywhere. In an earlier Whitepaper from October 2007, The Evolution of Digital Entertainment, I pointed to the new ways TiVo needs to align technology, markets,and demographics in order to capitalize on content. It looks like they moved quicker than I thought.

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When Acquisitions Fail By Keeping The Status Quo

recently helped out a friend that finally found a seemingly great fit for his marketing company up in Vermont. The Buyer was a large US wireless carrier that wants to have more control over targeted and social advertisement. Because I’m usually sitting on the other side of the table, it actually happened that [...]

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Project Status Reporting In Small Projects

How to create a simple project progress reporting dashboard in Microsoft Excel

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Bill Gate’s Question on LinkedIn

Bill Gates asked a question on LinkedIn that generated ~2800 answers in 3 days: “How can we do more to encourage young people to pursue careers in science and technology?”

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Participating In The Execution Of An Idea

Terrence Olsen at asked: If you have a great idea for your company’s business development, how can you share the idea and avoid being excluded from it’s implementation?

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What are the key characteristics or competencies of a great innovator?

This is an answer to a LinkedIn Question by Jennifer Haertling at Kraft Foods.
Interesting that so far the most commonly mentioned things are something along creative, ideas, inspiring, motivation, out-of-the-box. It seems to me that all of these ideas are more attributes of inventors, and not innovators, and are merely good, but not great.
I would [...]

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Sell Your Shares if Apple Gets iPod Right!

Sales are up 24%, earnings up 75%, margins topping 30%, stock price up 146%; shortcomings of iPhone, iPod are a calculated risk for upgrading, upselling, re-hyping; I would sell my shares if Apple got its iPod right.

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On Definitions: IPTV And Not-So-IPTV

The definition of IPTV seems to be ambiguous - either because out of common misunderstanding of technology, out of ignorance, or on purpose. We differentiate between first generation of IPTV, second generation of IPTV, and TelcoTV. IPTV is not (yet) VoD, a transport mechanism, web TV or Internet TV, or Mobile TV.

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