New Telecoms Players Worry Traditionalists
ampAnyone who can write a piece of software can invite himself to the table and grab what he wants for himselfamp complained Didier Lombard of France Telecom ampUnregulated players like Skype come in without asking anyone They will capture all the value of the networks without any authorization It is a revolution which will change how this business will be managed in the futureamp
Skype now owned by ebay is not the only company to upset Lombard Google Yahoo and are all getting into the telecoms business although no one knows with what business models or services...
New Telecoms Players Worry Traditionalists
The troubled voices of the traditional telecoms industry players are watching as unregulated players take value from the networks by creating a structure that spells opportunity for those prepared to invest in it
For the first time since the telecoms industry was deregulated in the s the industryamps structure is coming under radical attack
ampAnyone who can write a piece of software can invite himself to the table and grab what he wants for himselfamp complained Didier Lombard of France Telecom ampUnregulated players like Skype come in without asking anyone...
Amazon’s Alexa Commoditizes Search
Amazonamps Alexa Commoditizes Search
Posted in Moores Claw Web 20
About a month ago Nicholas Carr suggested that Internet search was fast becoming a commodity because there was very little differentiation between Yahoo or Google Thatamps why all the action around toolbars desktop widgets and desktop search
Google knows this as do its competitors Theyampre all looking for ways to increase switching costs or as we used to say make search sticky
Carr made some good though debatable points But even he couldnampt have predicted the ultimate act of commoditization giving away the very index...
AOhell: Some people never learn
Steve Case wrote a Washington Post oped yesterday that made the lead of the front page of The Times today pushing for breaking up the merger he made
Pardon me for being just a little cynical but the Time Warner stock I got while working there which I stupidly held onto was the money that Famped me And Steve Case is greatly to blame He is the snakeoil salesman who sold a bill of goods amp a company whose strategy he neglected amp to the gullible directionless frightened fools at Time Warner
Yet in the Post oped Case is incredibly unselfaware He paints is the victim in the worst merger in history...
The Pocket Guide to the 2005 Blogosphere
Blogs hit the big numbers and go global By numbers alone blogs continued to penetrate in ways few of us would have imagined in Blog search engines Technorati and BlogPulse alone index 22 and 20 million blogs respectively and both are probably off by about 25 percent If you count Web juggernaut MySpace pages as blogs many do the numbers skyrocket to new levels Granted many blogs expire or fade away but in the aggregate blogs are experiencing a major growth trend powered in no small measure by teens nearly half of whom have created their own blogs...