The fastest growing and most successful Companies in the World are the proof against an increased attention by anyone to the importance of Copyright and Trademark. For sometime I have been lobbying hard against Australia’s involvement in ACTA. Lobbying Koltai? Is that what you call it? Well yes. I don’t have access in [...]
Media barons and some of the anointed (think glitterati, freemasons or whichever other conspiracy theory you subscribe to this week); spend a lot of time gnashing teeth these days…. In the inimitable voice of Peter Sellers, “ Oh dearie dearie me, we have let de cat out of de bag”, – how the hell [...]
The Disagreement about Blogs There are two point two new Blog sites created for every second of every day of the year. (around 175,000 per day.) The blogosphere doubles every 236 days! Presently, there are around 77 million blogs,It has been predicted that within three years, 50% of all content online will be user-generated. [...]
Continuing the thoughts noted earlier by myself and Tom about Rupert Murdoch's announcement – along with others (funny about that) – to make his online content paid for: It used to be that you would buy a newspaper because you wanted to get a wrap up of the events of the last 24 hours. It [...]
This strangely titled Wired article and this Businessweek article predict the forthcoming demise of attempts to protect online music with DRM. Inevitable really! Still it is remarkable how long it has taken the traditional music industry to accept reality.
Business Week and Boston Consulting provide their list and some insights into the World's most innovative companies and list the Top 25. For anyone in or around the tech sector this article is a must…. mainly because it identifies very succinctly the fact that purely having an innovative technology is nothing unless it goes with [...]
Interesting to see the data that is coming out about marketing to mobile phones. Projected expenditure on marketing/advertising over wireless networks (according to Visiongain) may go to $602 million in 2009, from $104 million in 2005. RBC Capital reckons it will reach $1.5 Billion by 2010. Verizon are projecting that mobile advertising will get 25% [...]
This article from Business Week is great – particularly for a couple of the quotes about the problems at Sony BMG from Counterpane CTO, Bruce Schneier: “Making digital files not copyable is like making water not wet” “DRM is a desparate attempt to cling to…old business model(s). They have to figure out how to make [...]
Amazon has introduced the Mechanical Turk named after an 18th century hoax. Business Week thinks “it could have great potential for tapping into the wisdom of crowds” Exactly. Amazon are asking the hordes to help them complete tasks that are necessary for a computer to proceed. At every level the big web companies are probing for opportunities to turn in [...]
Have you ever experienced having to deal with a decision tree in a suppliers phone system? Isn't it frustrating? About a week ago I tried to change something in my Visa account. And of course the problem that I first encountered was that what I wanted to do wasn't one of the options that were [...]