A Schumpeterian moment, but not just for retailing
Paul Kedrosky is thinking about the most important datapoint of this holiday season as a Schumpeterian moment. Retail data is indeed almost caricatural. Physical retailers are hopelessly fighing for survival while online retailing is accelerating on its trend. Paul adds in another post: A great WSJ quote driving home how this truly is retail’s Schumpeterian moment: Analysts estimate that from …
A few thoughts on Yammer, a twitter-like for organizations
Yammer is an SAAS clone of Twitter, providing private networks for groups and companies. See this post for a good description of the service. When Yammer won the TC50, we witnessed two sequential waves of reactions. The first was laudatory and praised a company that found how to monetize a service like Twitter, where it had hitherto failed. The second …
This Can't Be Good
I’m beginning to smell a black, black Christmas on Wall Street. Furthermore, I don’t think we’re going to see any babies born on the Upper East Side, in Greenwich, Connecticut, or in Mayfair next August, September, or October, either. Source: This Can’t Be Good
A crisp summary of where we're all at
Roger Ehrenberg, blogging at InfoArbitrage is one sharp guy. His posts are impressive and he’s part of this breed of bloggers juggling all activities but still managing to churn out quality posts at an impressive rate (in this case, superb quality at a regular pace). Read his post, that will give you a finer grain for reading today’s picture. Extracts: …
On G-20 and GM: Economics, Politics and Social Stability
George Friedman of Stratfor has a very sharp piece out again that may be republished and is a must read: ON G-20 AND GM: ECONOMICS, POLITICS AND SOCIAL STABILITY By George Friedman The G-20 met last Saturday. Afterward, the group issued a meaningless statement and decided to meet again in March 2009, or perhaps later. Clearly, the urgency of October is …
Pilots are not for profit-making. And we're not playing games.
Expand to see inline the other posts in IT Management» This post is the first of the vendors series, exploring client-vendors partnership considerations. They’re all tagged and you can find them here. James Gardner has a post up explaining how he and his team are looking at vendors coming to them with a new technology to try out. He makes …
Zoho is, indeed, impressive
Playing out with Zoho sheet, I’ve created a new account and here’s the email I immediately received, instead of the usual confirmation one: Subject: Hi, I am here to help you with Zoho Creator. Hi, Thank you for your interest in Zoho Creator. I am Raffic Aslam and I will be happy to assist you with our service. I will neither …
“Investing†in AIG, et. al.: understand the scandal
I haven’t posted here due to a lack of time, but what we are witnessing is no short of the most abject scandal run by the collusive political and financial sides of American elite. Oh, and incompetence is a hallmark too. Here are a few must-read if you want to follow what’s going on, but be warned, this will elevate your …
Presidential rhetoric comparison
From the always excellent Jeff Matthews: <blockquote cite=”http://jeffmatthewsisnotmakingthisup.blogspot.com/2008/09/nothing-to-fear-but-irresponsible-words.html“>This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. —FDR Inaugural Address We shall fight on …
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