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Internet

  • CenterNetworks — Business on the New Internet

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    Just discovered this, and it looks like a good resource: CenterNetworks was relaunched in September 2006 to focus on the “new” Internet. This includes social networking, Web 2.0, and social lending. One of my main goals with CenterNetworks is to help you create better web apps. Not so much on the coding side but on…

  • 12 Tenets of Social Media Marketing

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    The 12 Tenets of Social Media Marketing… I. The public is the Lord thy God II. Thou shalt covet all media III. Ignore not peer-to-peer media IV. Thou shalt think globally and speak in tongues V. Thy communications must pass the “who cares?” test VI. Thou shalt learn to create artful blog and forum comments…

  • A New Internet Strategy Course

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    Though there is much punditry on the topic, I’ve found a paucity of books, classes, and other educational materials about Internet strategy. Guessing Internet practitioners would appreciate a formal review, I’ve created a course called Introduction to Internet Business Strategy and will be teaching it first at the Information Architecture Summit in Las Vegas this…

  • Americans Online

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    The NY Times covers the new census figures… Among adults, 97 million Internet users sought news online last year, 92 million bought a product, 91 million made a travel reservation, 16 million used a social or professional networking site and 13 million created a blog.

  • Do Customer Communities Pay Off?

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    In HBR this month is a rare, methodical (and free) look at the financial effect of online communities via a study of eBay Germany… Over the course of a year, we compared the behavior of community enthusiasts and lurkers with that of the control group. The differences were astonishing. Lurkers and community enthusiasts bid twice…

  • Chaulk One Up for Blogs: The Satorialist

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    The Satorialist has suddenly made a big splash in both the blogging and fashion worlds with a very simple idea: take photos of wonderfully-dressed everyday people on the street and post them on a blog. The author’s eye and insightful commentary create little moments of education and beauty. We knew about the threats to classifieds…

  • Cost-to-serve

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    Cost-to-serve is defined as the total supply chain cost from origin to destination, it incorporates such factors as inventory stocking, packaging and re-packaging, shipping, and returns processing. So explains Tim Laseter, Elliot Rabinovich, and Angela Huang in S+B. I’d say products that have poor cost-to-serve profiles, like shoes, just haven’t redesigned their businesses to take…

  • Blogs are over

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    Advertisement, Manhattan.

  • Can large companies succeed with social media?

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    We think so.

  • Amazon disintermediates the credit card companies

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    Why bother with micropayments when you can reach right into the bank account? For anyone familiar with European banking, this is an obvious solution. My European friends pay all their bills directly using a standard electronic system and none of them have checkbooks. Checkbooks are an American anachronism.

  • iTunes is so, so unfair

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    The music industry’s lack of innovation ability to even look at business differently is rather sad. Even after Apple showed how digital downloads could be made profitable, they’re pressuring Jobs to change his pricing model, complaining about his ingenuity… A sore point for some music executives is the fact that Apple generates much more money…

  • Linking to the New York Times website

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    I just discovered two techniques for increasing your online enjoyment of the lovely New York Times: From blogs, links can lead behind the pay wall by creating a weblog-safe link (thanks Jason) If you live here and have a library card, you can access the newspaper’s archives back to 2000 — as well as the…

  • New: comments on this blog

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    Those of you reading this via RSS — 2 out of 3 of you — can now come to the site and post your comments. I became convinced that the emerging practice of applying design thinking to business should be a conversation to hasten progress, so I’ve opened up my blog to discussion. Hope to…

  • metacool is itself cool

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    Diego Rodriguez — instructor at Stanford’s d.school — has a blog called metacool that’s the product of an engineering + MBA educated brain, definitely worth a look. For example, he discusses Nike’s Considered line of shoes: Considered shoes generate 63% less waste in manufacturing than a typical Nike design.  The use of solvents has been…

  • CPH127: Design and Innovation are Boarding

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    CPH127 is a promising new blog from like-minds in Copenhagen: This is a brand spanking new blog about the major influence of design as a motor for innovation, and like wise the other way around. We are neither 100% design-focused nor are we 100% business-focused. Our team consists designers, MBAs, dot-com entreprenours and all the…