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Smartphones as appliances: Different phones for different usages

The growth of the mobile data marketplace is one of the bright spots for business in the current recession. Mobile carriers report increasing demand for data services, and Apple and Research in Motion both reported strong earnings aided by sales of their smartphone products.

Tags: apple , blackberry , google , gphone , iphone , nokia , palm , RIM , smartphone , windows mobile

Scobleizer Gets it Right

That is why MSFT is going to have a tough time competing with Google...MSFT is a beautiful piece of software...too bad it isn't a harbinger of a beautiful business model for the future.

Tags: Advertising , Business Model , Google , Microsoft , Software

Employees and Strategy

For many executives, the two words above don't go together. Why? Because they think strategy is done in the C-suite. I'm here to tell you that's old thinking. Life is different now. Status is less relevant. We're in an era...

Tags: curiosity , employees , Google , openess , strategy

Ars Technica: Pew Internet Report - Only half of US Netizens use search engine daily

Ars Technica assistant editor Jacqui Cheng wakes us up to the fact that many Americans may be on the Internet, but they're not surfing with the style we use in Silicon Valley. That smacking sound you just heard? It's the...

Tags: ars technica , Google , Jacqui Chen , Pew Internet & American Life Project , search

CNET: Note to privacy advocates: good luck

Google is back in the news as another privacy group gets hot and bothered about their eye in the sky. No one wants a satellite snooping, but the privacy group actually posted Street View directions to a Google exec's home...

Tags: Google , privacy , satellite-image

The Five Structural Elements of Strategy: Idea Generation

Strategy has 5 Structural Elements - power distribution, decision-making, idea generation, ideas, process and people. Miss tuning one and you'll fail. Add items that don't blend and you'll fail. Idea Generation How ideas are generated affects the quantity and quality...

Tags: Google , idea generation , Murderboarding , Nilofer Merchant , strategy

Wall Street Journal: Former Google Engineers Launch Search Engine

Former Googleites are in the news everywhere today regarding their launch of a search engine. Cuil, as you'll find out from the excerpt of a story written by Jessica E. Vascellaro, is supposed to deliver better results. It's great that...

Tags: Anna Patterson , Cuil , Google , Jessica E. Vascellaro , search , Tom Costello , Wall Street Journal

The Man Behind Google's Open Handset Alliance

If there's one thing users want, it's open use of the technology they buy. Hacked iPhones bear testimony to the desire for open cellphone use that is free of carrier restrictions. Google's November 5th announcement of their mobile phone software...

Tags: AT&T , Google , iPhone , Net neutral , Tim Wu , Verizon

Facebook enables Brand Affinity To Take place

Facebook now will give advertisers the ability to create their own profile pages on its system that will let users identify themselves as fans of a product. Let's users (and the advocates amongst those users) show their beliefs, feelings, perhaps even needs. And with it, brand owners would choose to place their advertising dollars here as compared to the other companies.

Tags: Facebook , Google , User Influencer , Yahoo

Anticipation ...

Persistent rumors that Google is launching a mobile "platform" based on open business models could culminate tomorrow, November 4, 2007. Here's the link "href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20071103/tc_pcworld/139240" I found. Bunches more online this afternoon so I have to believe that something BIG is...

Tags: Apple , Business Model , Google , Mobile , Open

Marvel Story

Marvel Comics used to sell comic books. That was their business. They created comics, they sold them in the form of books. Then, one day, they realize that the real asset isn't the publishing business. Which is what they had directly built. What they had indirectly built is characters that had stories. And those were assets.

Tags: Business Model , Catster , Clusteraps , Google , MySQL , Revenue Source , Strategy , SugarCRM

The boxing match begins: Amazon, Google, and Paypal

This is one getting seats for: Reported here, but summarized with this starting point: Amazon, in its bid to become the underlying utility of the new web world, today confirmed what had been rumored earlier: a payment service that will...

Tags: Amazon , Google , Paypal

Google SMB Push...

Having launched what now seems like a bazzillion products, I think I can draw a conclusion about the simplicity of enterprise product adoption. Here goes. There are only 3 things enterprise companies need to adopt technology: security, scalability and support....

Tags: channel , Google , market expansion , Postini , SMB

Tools, Gadgets and the Like

A major business magazine which has a gear section asked me to contribute ideas. I am so pleased as I love, love, love this section. And it got me thinking, "if I only had to choose 1 or 2 things,...

Tags: Amazon , business , gadgets , Garmin , Google , Moleskin , Simulscribe , speck seethru , technology

What did you think I meant?

A couple blog entries ago, I suggested that while most companies think of the "home page" as their entry to their web experience, most people googled their way into a website doing a deep dive to perform a surgical strike...

Tags: consumer marketing , Google

Google is your UI

Let me paint a picture of the world today as a company sees it and then again as a customer experiences it. Company View: A company, say yours, has a “home page” where they organize the user experience so users...

Tags: Google , marketing

The Holy Grail of the SMB Market

I've been working with many a new client who wants to reach the SMB market. These are traditional enterprise companies who want to expand. And they the SMB market as a viable one to pursue for growth. But this market...

Tags: emerging software trend , Google , Microsoft , SaaS , SMB market

Top 10 Trends for 2007

For work this month, I wrote some "top 10 trends" for what my team and I think should matter to those high-tech firms that want to win... details of all of these are available here. Top 10 Trends for 2007...

Tags: Adobe , Apple , Google , Motorola , Palm , SaaS , Top 10 trends

Top 10 Ideas from Web 2.0 Summit

My top 10 ideas or reflections from Web 2.0 conference this week in San Francisco. #1 There's a real Heirarchy in Value Creation Apps beat features. Online applications beat packaged applications. "Open" applications beat online applications (meaning those you can...

Tags: consumer marketing , Google , John Battelle , leadership , market expansion , Microsoft , platform , Web 2.0 Summit , Yahoo

Blurred at Web 2.0 Summit

Mary Meeker of Morgan Stanley is the only speaker I know that can get away with delivering slide content in such a fast pace that not only can you barely follow, but you can barely connect notes. But she is...

Tags: Apple , consumer marketing , developers , emerging software trend , Google , market expansion , Motorola , Web 2.0

Value of Customers, Real Time @ Web 2.0

I'm amazed at how much people love to listen to real customers. At Web 2.0, the longest line for the microphone wasn't to ask a question to Ray Ozzie, Jeff Bezos, Bruce Chizen (who, notably, had no questions asked of...

Tags: consumer marketing , customer research , Google , Web 2.0 , Web 2.0 Summit , Yahoo

Finding the Core Value Proposition is Key

I recently got introduced to an up-n-coming PLM (product lifecycle management) software vendor who shall remain nameless. There are several notable vendors already in the PLM space including IBM, PTC, Borland, UGS (a division of EDS) , and about 40...

Tags: Borland , core value proposition , Google , PLm