Articles Archive for October 2004
Technology »
Podcasting = Personal On Demand casting
Since the term podcasting isn’t likely to go away here’s a try at construction what the acronym would stand for.
A Personal On Demand media subscription/casting system.
Social Capitalism »
Wired 12.10: The Long Tail
The average Barnes & Noble carries 130,000 titles. Yet more than half of Amazon’s book sales come from outside its top 130,000 titles. Consider the implication: If the Amazon statistics are any guide, the market for books that are not even sold in the average bookstore is larger than the market for those that are
Social Capitalism »
The needs disconnect
A simple observation i made some weeks ago in a meeting with some pretty oldschool “business people” (people that aren’t people anymore, but have turned into “business people”)…
Customer needs versus the corporations’ needs:
Corporations today spend 80% of their time/attention obsessed with their own needs (grow revenue, competitors, customerservice optimization, corporate strategies, shareholder value, etc.) and 20% on the actual needs of their customers (share my pictures, online access, easy travel from a to b, healthy food, etc).
What would happen if they instead spend 80% of their time on …
