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What makes a (successful) Platform?

Posted in Innovation, Social Software on May 29, 2007 | Comments Off

Seems everyone want to be a platform. And why not – platforms are enablers of new relationships and applications, and they become indispensable once platform status is achieved.
A platform requires identifying and providing tools or services that add value to a broad number of parties in the ecosystem. An example is Google maps, initially a [...]

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Telling it like it is

Posted in Advertising, Innovation, Media, Newspapers, Radio, Television on May 17, 2007 | Comments Off

James Cridland has an excellent post (Mark Ramsey. Grr) extolling US broadcasters to look beyond their shores and admonishing tech enthusiast to stop decrying the death of a medium they love.
Both are long overdue.
First it’s increasingly a global world with (forgive me) a world of great ideas. And those ideas are easy to find. I [...]

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Community Ecology

Posted in Innovation, Media, Social Software on April 20, 2007 | Comments Off

I attended Tony Bailetti’s “Alchemy of Open Source” conference yesterday. Insightful! Not just because of what was said about open source – but because the open source community is probably the most developed of the shared content communities – especially in understanding business models, evolution and ecology.
Peter Carbone – CTO for Nortel kicked the event [...]

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Widgets and Community Ecosystems

Posted in Innovation, Marketing, Media, Uncategorized on March 22, 2007 | Comments Off

One of the projects I was working on recently used widgets to display constantly changing time sensitive and site specific information across a hierarchical family of enterprise web sites. Each site’s widget could be configured to only display information relevant to the audience of that site making it a powerful tool to build connection with [...]

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Fostering Innovation

Posted in Entreprenurship, Innovation on March 18, 2007 | Comments Off

I’ve been reading Peter Drucker’s 1985 book “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”. It’s one of the best books I’ve read in a while.
 
In typical Drucker fashion it’s both prescient and prescriptive – an ideal guide for leaders in industries undergoing transformation – like technology does continually and media has as a result of technology.
 
For Drucker it [...]

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