Wednesday, the Global Information Industry Summit (GIIS), started with a keynote by Hugo Dixon, Editor in Chief and Chairman of Breakingviews.com (BV), a fully electronic publication of real time financial analysis. “For me content is indeed King,” says Hugo and he believes in charging for it. BV sells team and enterprise subscriptions, can boast 5… Read More
Ever notice how technology gets adopted first by pornographers, then by more general entertainment companies, then financial services … and so on? Ever notice how traditional publishers are usually coming on board last? Is it funding (porn has more money)? Is it the zealousness of the customer base? Is it a willingness to take risks?… Read More
Ah…if it were only that easy, everyone would be doing it! I was thinking back this morning to a meeting I had with a Senior Vice President in a (not-to-be-named) publishing company. This company’s very well known CEO told a group of his organizational leaders that he knew the answer to all their product innovation… Read More
In case you haven’t heard, there’s a new search engine in town, Cuil (pronounced “cool”). In their own words: “Rather than rely on superficial popularity metrics, Cuil searches for and ranks pages based on their content and relevance. When we find a page with your keywords, we stay on that page and analyze the rest… Read More
A while back I stumbled on Michael Hyatt’s blog: From Where I Sit. Michael is the CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers. Regardless of where you sit, two of his recent posts are “must reads” for any one! Creating WOW Product Experiences includes a list of ten common “WOW experience” attributes that he and his management… Read More
At a recent parent teacher conference with my son’s Science teacher, I happened to notice that the best overall grade in the class was a 76. There were another two passing grades and every other student was failing! Out of 16 students 3 (20%) were passing. I asked the teacher about class performance. “This is… Read More
Dan Lyons, a.k.a. Fake Steve Jobs and a senior editor at Forbes, gave one of the Web 2.0 Expo keynotes this morning. Dan was both hilarious and thought-provoking. So how does someone become the Fake Steve Jobs? Dan asked, but Forbes wouldn’t let him start a blog. Apparently Dan was “old media” and Forbes didn’t… Read More
Highlights from three of the sessions I attended today at the Web 2.0 Expo: User-Generated Censorship Annalee Newitz, wrote an article in Wired, I Bought Votes on Digg, to illustrate how people can manipulate social networks. In today’s session, she contrasted the wisdom of crowds with their potential destructive nature. Annalee went through several sites… Read More