Archives for the 'Internet Trends' Category
Inteview with Don Tapscott
A very interesting conversation with Don Tapscott, author of Wikinomics.
Some of the topics covered:
The relationship between technology and business.
“The Perfect Storm”: The changes in technology (Internet), demographics, society, and economics.
The paradigm shifts.
Music should be a service, not a good.
The power of mass collaboration.
Opening the boundaries of the companies.
Google is a digital conglomerate with software, advertising, […]
Great article about Freeconomics
A great article about businesses that are free has been published by Wired. One of the most remarkable concepts is that free is very different from charging one cent.
The story about Gillette is very interesting too.
Other authors that have talked about the free economy are the writers of Funky Business and Karaoke Capitalism.
The Future Of Software
According to this article from Knowledge at Wharton, the future of software is much related to the Internet.
Particularly, this seems to be a great challenge for Microsoft, the king of off line software.
On the one hand, Google has its own Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, already online (Google Docs).
On the other hand, there are others threats […]
New Website With Opinions: Hey! Nielsen
A new website where you can monitor trends by reading opinions on TV, movies, music, personalities, web sites and more: Hey! Nielsen. An interesting idea.
Sergey Brin and Larry Page talk about Google
Sergey Brin and Larry Page talk about Google, their culture, innovation, Adsense, the future, and so on. A look at one of the most interesting companies in the world today.
Excellent Interview With Steve Jobs And Bill Gates
In this joint interview with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs talk about trends in technology and business: the past, the present, the future, mobile devices, Apple and Microsoft, entertainment, advertising, internet, and so on.
Here we include a video with the highlights of the interview, but in total it is about […]
Present and Future of Media
An interesting video about the present and the future of Media. It is similar to Epic 2014.
The Machine Is Us
Excellent video about Web 2.0.
It talks about the separation between form and content that the Web offers and how it enabled common people to upload content (text, photos, videos) to the Internet. “The machine is us” means that the common people are the ones creating and organizing the information on the Internet. Very interesting and […]
New challenges for Brand Management
Before the Internet, e-mail, and more recently, websites like You Tube and Google Video, viral marketing didn’t have the strength it has today. Consumers didn’t almost participate in brand image building. At present, consumers may have an enormous influence on it.
The videos of Diet Coke and Mentos are an example of this trend. There are […]
Wifi Shanghai
Shanghai announced that it will have a city-wide wireless internet network in time for the 2010 World Expo. This will be the first network of this kind in China. Anyone in the city will have access to internet at any time. One more step towards a wifi world.
Googlezon and Epic 2014/15
Looking into the future may be very interesting. Recently I became aware of the existence of the video “Epic 2014”. The video shows a very creative theory about the future of Internet and media. Specifically, about Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and the New York Times.
After watching it, these are some of the ideas that came to […]
