Google is a transformative technology, of that there is no doubt. However its ability to effect change are creating some unforeseen business impact. I was talking to someone on the weekend who has some keen insights into the ecosystem of grass… Yes that’s right – that cash crop that everyone knows is at the heart [...]
Isn’t it amazing that in a world in which so many things are so obvious, so many people keep on ignoring the signs. When there is so much momentum for change so many people keep thinking “same”. Steve Jobs had a great instinct for the signals of change and the way that one mans infrastructure [...]
My Über nerd friend is currently in the UK, and obviously from the piccie he posted on Facebook, discovering interesting new business models. He’s discovered a business that requires no product, no fulfillment (if they buy) and best yet, no after sales support. Here is the latest high profit low cost business model. [...]
Super Vectors I was watching an episode of The Wire last night (last episode of Series 3). In it we see the denouement of an experiment in social engineering. The story, which evolves over a number of episodes, is of one of the senior police getting an idea of how to reduce the murder [...]
Most people in Australia don’t understand the iiNet trial. They think that either iiNet failed to follow it’s obligations under the copyright legislation or that iiNet were setup by DTECNET to take the fall that would create precedent in law that will require all ISP’s to dob in their customers, irregardless of actual proof. [...]
The RIAA is about to offload it’s position of most globally hated industry body onto the mantle of our elected representatives. Which country? Well they’re starting with the ACTA participants. And they’re doing a damn fine job. Against all the evidence, they have managed to convince the US Congress who in [...]
Part II In Part 1, I said that we considered that Hollywood would ignore the man in the street as irrelevent on the other side of the table at a file-sharing peace conference. That was our conclusion. That an industry body that represented the man in the street would fail in lobbying a solution. Anyone [...]
I was slammed into reality the other day by the fact that a Solicitor that I have known for many years who dealt in the area of the law known as Trade marks which falls under the auspices of Intellectual Property Law, got some basic knowledge about the Australian Copyright Legislation wrong. (No 'P' it's [...]
Bob May was a guest on The Science Show a couple of weeks ago. Or Lord May to all of us plebs. He was born in Australia and has variously been Chief Scientific advisor to the British government, President of the Royal Society, and a host of other titles too many to include here but [...]
I am deeply *enamoured/in awe of the adoption wave that Zynga have created with their Farmville creation. Of course, it helps if you have two million per month to spend on click-through advertising – however, that is a separate topic. Farmville is an excellent example of the concept of innovation patenting. Zynga took [...]