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Should The Government Start Twittering?

Why do you want a Porsche, a Marc Jacobs handbag, or a Bugaboo stroller? It’s not the price, I would guess. Even with no-name plastic wrap, flour, or electronics: It’s not just the price you’re looking at. So what’s wrong with the current “US deflation” debate, and with the broadband access price wars?

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Business innovation is NOT dependent on creative people

There is a difference between creativity and innovation. Creativity is the process of generating something new. It is a prerequisite for innovation. Innovation however, is the practical application of creativity.

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Recommendations At The Work Place

The independent consumer-research company Big Research writes in November 2008 about recommendations at the work place: “Before they make a purchase, 93% of Americans consult their co-workers for advice.”

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Over-The-Top Video And Telecom’s Dumb Pipe

There is no such thing as “Dumb Broadband Pipe”. The worst thing video service providers can do is petitioning a Network Neutrality.

Web2.0 vs. Consumer Electronics and New Media

A recent article was about open mobile device platforms such as Android, but you see similar trends in the fixed world: eHomeUpgrade has a nice series of reports on Online Home Video Delivery that includes Apple, Microsoft, Sony, and Netflix.

Worldwide IPTV Market Snapshot

By Patrick Pfeffer and Susan Tucker I noticed that the subscriber number for IPTV differ greatly from research company to research company. When I dug a little deeper, I realized that the definitions of what IPTV actually is differs quite a lot: Some include Video-On-Demand (VoD) offerings because they are bundled with IPTV offerings; others [...]

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Winners and Losers

This is part of a five part series: 1/The Rise Of The Digital Entertainment Market 2/After The Bubble: A Market Shift 3/The Digital Entertainment Evolution 4/Winners And Losers 5/Why Does The Digital Entertainment Evolution Matter? The Digital Entertainment evolution is still in its infancy. The next 10 years will continue to see rapid changes and [...]

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After The Bubble: A Market Shift

Craigslist destroyed $50 – $60 mil p.a. in newspaper classified advertising in the San Francisco Bay Area alone; Nielsen SoundScan reports a 20% fall in CD sales in the last 5 years; Netflix is long-tail

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The Rise Of The Digital Entertainment Market

Gutenberg aligns content, market, demographics, and creates basis for digital entertainment; BTX fails, Minitel success; Tivo fails

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