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08.18.10Why Network Neutrality Is Good for BusinessEditor's note: For an opposing viewpoint on this topic, see Robert E. Litan's and Hal J. Singer's entry "Why Business Should Oppose Net Neutrality." In business school, where I teach, students are often predisposed to see legal concepts as impenetrable and foreign. I watch the lightbulbs go on as they see that Microsoft's antitrust woes, RIM's $600 million patent infringement settlement, and Galleon's downfall due to insider trading say as much about strategic judgment and application of analytical tools as the cases that they study in marketing, management or accounting. The most successful businesses understand the non-market environment in which they ...
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08.18.10Why Network Neutrality Is Good for BusinessEditor's note: For an opposing viewpoint on this topic, see Robert E. Litan's and Hal J. Singer's entry "Why Business Should Oppose Net Neutrality." In business school, where I teach, students are often predisposed to see legal concepts as impenetrable and foreign. I watch the lightbulbs go on as they see that Microsoft's antitrust woes, RIM's $600 million patent infringement settlement, and Galleon's downfall due to insider trading say as much about strategic judgment and application of analytical tools as the cases that they study in marketing, management or accounting. The most successful businesses understand the non-market environment in which they ...
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08.12.103 ways Google could use search to make Google.me a Facebook killer.I have said a bit recently about how Google could be looking to implement their new social network but Mark’s comment in response to my last post really hit the mark (no pun intended): “So, Google as a generic destination instead of just a search page?” Google’s primary business is all about sending you elsewhere and, while they make good revenue from the advertising setup around search, there is a lot to be said for keeping visitors at your site. So, if we are to assume that by creating a well integrated, comprehensive and well designed social offering Google can compete effectively with Facebook ...
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08.10.10Can Google really compete in the social space?Google has come a long way. To most, however, Google is still just a search engine – the great internet unwashed who use the web for little more than buying dvds. For Google to become a verb is a great achievement and really gives a brand loyalty and, perhaps, even misguided sense of ownership over the search service because of the simple familiarity – everyone knows what you mean. To “Google” something entered our vocabulary but if their “Facebook killing” offering in the social space really is going to be called “Google Me” then it will redefine the term completely. Will ...
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07.30.10The Next GoogleThe Next Google will be a percentile search engine that predicts the likelihood that any combination of knowledge assets can produce or execute any combination of products or services at a known cost based on the supply and demand for those known knowledge assets. End of mystery.
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07.20.10Google Acknowledges Need To Enhance SearchAfter years of ignoring context-sensitive search in major vertical categories, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) finally entered vertical search within the travel domain earlier this month with a bang. It acquired ITA Software, the Boston-based specialist in organizing airline data, flight times, seat availability, and pricing, for $700 million. While the move is sure to be subject to scrutiny by antitrust enforcers, it was long overdue. Google is going full speed with its acquisition spree and has completed over sixteen acquisitions in the past ten months – for most of them, however, financial details have not been disclosed. Within travel, the company recently purchased Ruba, ...
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11.15.095 Impressive Real-Life Google Wave Use CasesThe Google Wave invite rollout extravaganza started more than a month ago. While in some respects the buzz around Google Wave has started to subside, the term is still constantly one of the top trending topics on Twitter, and new gadgets, extensions, and applications are now starting to appear on a daily basis. Each day more and more people are opening up their email inbox to find an invite to Google Wave. With that shiny new invite comes the inevitable quest for ideas about to how to put the medium to good use. Should you happen to be one of those people, ...
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10.14.09Google Wave Attempts to Modernize EmailGoogle Wave is a new communication tool that the search giant bills as "what email would look like if it were invented today." While the plan to modernize email is laudable and ambitious, Google Wave's whiz-bang features can feel confusing and chaotic to new users. However, if regular people can make the leap that Wave does from email's message-based system to conversations as co-editing a single document, Wave could revolutionize the way we communicate and collaborate online. Email's problems Relative to the lifespan of most technology, email is ancient. Invented over 40 years ago, email predates the internet and the World Wide ...
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10.12.09Google Wave And The Dawn Of Passive-Aggressive CommunicationWe’re now a little over a week into the extended roll-out of the preview build of Google Wave. This is an important time for the service because many people can now finally start using it as they eventually may — which is to say, with their friends and colleagues. Of course, the backlash is also already in full-swing, as expected. But I can’t help but wonder if this backlash and the hype that it is a byproduct of, is blinding some to the larger picture. Google Wave is not just a service, it is perhaps the most complete example yet ...
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10.07.09Mobile Advertising Is Shaping Up To Be All SearchWIth the rise of Web phones like the iPhone, Android, Blackberry, and Palm (Verizon’s CEO says that 40% of its new phone sales are such smartphones), mobile advertising promises to be a huge growth area. The Kelsey Group, a market research firm, projects that the mobile advertising market will balloon from $160 million in 2008 to $3.1 billion in 2013. Of course, that is just an educated guess which will turn out wrong. But there is no doubt that mobile advertising will be much bigger in four years, perhaps even ten to 20 times bigger than it is today. ...
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About Me
CIO at Shine Lawyers
Non-exec Director of Ozmota
Non-exec Director of Queensland Kids
Ex CIO/CTO of Ozmota, Benefon and Voxson.Education
Executive MBA from QUT
High Distinction average
Singapore Airlines International Business Award
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Computer Science from QUT
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