Sunday, April 16, 2006 :::
blueprinttoabillion.com: "The odds are one in 50 that an idea becomes a business, then one in 20 that a funded business sees an initial public offering (IPO) and, finally, one in 20 that a public company achieves $1 billion revenue.1 The odds of turning an idea into a billion-dollar business, then, are one in 20,000! "
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Monday, April 10, 2006 :::
Broadband | News.blog | CNET News.com: "In particular, Transera has taken advantage of SIP, Session Initiation Protocol, and the use of IP in telephony networks. SIP allows Transera's software, for example, to queue up a call in the carrier's network before routing and monitor it remotely.
'Everyone has talked about the transition of our networks to IP. The value proposition is not that bits are moving as IP packets instead of circuit switches,' Uppaluru said. 'The real impact is that the network can be made available to end users.'
To build its call center application, Transera engineers used XML and other standard protocols. Using standard-based development tools on a standards-based network opens up a range of application possibilities, Uppaluru said.
Transera has plans to build other services that tap into the 'application-aware network,' including an exchange where outsourcers and enterprise customers can put out bids for work.
Customers need to have SIP-enabled phones, a broadband connection and a contract for Voice over IP to use the service, a substantially simpler and cheaper approach compared to installing proprietary voice-routing gear in multiple locations, said Uppaluru."
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Tuesday, April 04, 2006 :::
The State of Web 2.0 (web2.wsj2.com): "Web 2.0 is not a technology, it's a way of architecting software and businesses.
Web 2.0 is really a set of related forces, design patterns, and business models that are increasingly emerging onto the world stage.
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Monday, March 27, 2006 :::
Problem Solving: "As part of our research we have conducted thousands of negotiation simulations and found that there are certain steps that must occur and if they occur in the right order, the chances of a successful outcome are greatly increased. We did not invent the steps, however, we have distilled a negotiation, mediation, and problem solving process from observing many negotiations, as well as examing the writings of Fisher and Ury, Lewicki, Lax and Sebenius, Kolb, Tannen, and other experts in the field for common insights that can be applied by everyone.
What do we believe are the steps of all problem solving journeys?
1. Strategic introductions (why are each of you at the table)
2. Group agenda formation (process planning is key to sustaining relationships during the tough times of bargaining and other trust busting steps)
3. Sharing information on interests, facts, standards of fairness, and alternatives (IFSA - Interests, Facts, Standards of Fairness, and Alternatives if the deal falls through) Note that Alternatives is referred to as BATNA by Roger Fisher Getting To Yes, Reaching Agreement Without Giving In.
4. Finding common ground (where do we all agree, who are my allies)
5. Brainstorming (suggesting creative solutions without judging)
6. Bargaining (hopefully suggesting your Best First Offer with something to satisfy everyone's needs)
7. Finalizing (getting it down on paper, finding agreement, using deadlines, a little last minute trading)
Why do these work?
All negotiations cover these steps, whether explicitly or implicitly. If you try to skip one or more steps you will find it comes back to haunt your efforts to find an efficient, stable, and wise solution."
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Verizon SuperPages.com joins Google AdWords | CNET News.com: "Verizon SuperPages.com sends sales representatives out to businesses to sell them advertising that will appear in print and online, something Google and other big Internet companies don't have the resources to do, Eric Chandler, president of the Internet division at Verizon SuperPages.com, said here in a keynote at The Kelsey Group Drilling Down on Local conference.
The new arrangement 'marries our sales channel opportunities with Google's vast advertising network,' he said in an interview after the session. 'We play a key role in this whole ecosystem. We are the enablers to get this group (small merchants) online.'"
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Tuesday, March 07, 2006 :::
Today, Americans are feeling the gradual and subtle
effects of globalization that challenge the economic and
strategic leadership that the United States has enjoyed
since World War II. A substantial portion of our workforce
finds itself in direct competition for jobs with
lower-wage workers around the globe, and leadingedge
scientific and engineering work is being accomplished
in many parts of the world. Thanks to globalization,
driven by modern communications and other
advances, workers in virtually every sector must now
face competitors who live just a mouse-click away in
Ireland, Finland, China, India, or dozens of other
nations whose economies are growing. This has been
aptly referred to as “the Death of Distance.”
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Monday, March 06, 2006 :::
IBM's service science | Perspectives | CNET News.com: "The company's Almaden Services Research group, a 22-employee outfit based in Silicon Valley, has set out on a mission to discover--and then hopefully exploit--quantifiable, predictive principles that underlie the delivery of technology services.
For many physicists and chemists, the social sciences often rank up there with numerology and voodoo.
In other words, IBM is combining anthropology, game theory and behavioral economics with technologies from its labs to see if it can make corporate processes run smoother. The first person recruited from outside IBM to join the group was, in fact, an"
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An RFID solution to rush hour headaches? | CNET News.com: "That human factor is actually a concept being bandied about more at IBM these days. In conjunction with its push into services, Big Blue is beginning to conduct more research into human behavior and social sciences. The hope is that the company can better understand how large organizations function and apply technology to make them more efficient."
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Thursday, March 02, 2006 :::
Live: Google faces off with analysts - page 3 | CNET News.com: "He says the company is running on the 70-20-10 principle: 70 percent on core products, 20 percent on adjacent products and 10 percent on others."
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Live: Google faces off with analysts - page 3 | CNET News.com: "Schmidt shows a chart of the $283 billion market for advertising, including broadcast, radio, Internet, print, cable TV and direct mail. Google will be in all of those markets over time, either directly or with partners."
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Live: Google faces off with analysts - page 3 | CNET News.com: "Google's philosophy is to not be constrained by things like storage, bandwidth, CPU power, but to instead focus on the end-user, and revenue will follow."
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Live: Google faces off with analysts - page 3 | CNET News.com: "The company's management told the team to build a great product and not worry about putting ads in it."
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Live: Google faces off with analysts - page 2 | CNET News.com: "Google has built one of the largest computational infrastructures in the world. 'The reason that's important is because we are incredibly cheap.' Competitors can not deploy infrastructure faster, cheaper or at scale. This gives Google a two-, three- or five-year lead over competitors."
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Live: Google faces off with analysts - page 2 | CNET News.com: "Multiple dimensions to monetization. One is better end-user quality, from better algorithms. The second area is around user interface. Google has made subtle improvements. The third area is better advertiser effectiveness. For example: AdWords Power Editor. The fourth area is more inventory. The fifth area is geographic expansion. The sixth area is general flow of advertising dollars to the Internet as a medium. Online offers greater efficiency and measurability or accountability. People are spending about 13 percent of their time on the Internet but only 6 percent of ad dollars are being spent on the Net."
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Live: Google faces off with analysts - page 2 | CNET News.com: "There's an enormous opportunity in click-through rate improvements. Traffic is basically traffic. As long as Google gains market share, traffic will improve. The most important thing is that Google's user experience continues to improve, and the company is targeting geographies with high growth rates. If the search experience is good, queries per user will increase, which will drive advertisers."
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Live: Google faces off with analysts | CNET News.com: "Revenue per employee is a key metric. Google's revenue per employee is double that of its competitors--$1.44 million per head versus $700,000 per head for rivals."
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Live: Google faces off with analysts | CNET News.com: "'Magazines are excited. This gives them a way to sell inventory that they couldn't sell before.' Schmidt: 'We're trying to bring our targeting and analytical technologies to industries that didn't have them before.' That can be a significant revenue driver. Advertisers don't really want to just be on text ads and just on Google. All are amenable to higher targeting and better analytics."
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Live: Google faces off with analysts | CNET News.com: "Google's payments approach is a tactic to solve an important problem--to have an ad turn into a purchase. The quicker we can automate that--including payment, fulfillment, etc.--the more sales there'll be.'"
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