Ah yes, the good old days. How quickly time passes. My youngest graduated from college last weekend. She can barely remember life before cellphones, and can’t remember life before personal computers or VCRs, because both of those were born before she was.
A graduation is a milestone event, and milestone events generate this kind of thinking. [...]
Consider these predictions. They’re all based on identifiable trends. Ask yourself how this affects you, your business, and your business future: In 10 years, the number one English-speaking country in the world will be China. By 2011, 90% of all…
We used to talk a lot about the “killer app” back in the early days of personal computing, late 1970s and early 1980s, when a killer application was something that would create a new market, or bring a technology into…
As I think of the good reasons to go to a store to buy something, instead of over the Web, some of those reasons may go away in the future. There may be a new Web version of retail brewing….
Could you list the top 30 high-tech innovations of the last 30 years? Number one on this list is Internet broadband. Followed closely by personal computers, mobile phones, and email. I got a press release in email; NPR releases its…
I just read Netflix demolishes own business model on John Caddell’s blog and I think it’s very much worth passing on. John is posting about Netflix now working with various (he just installed a Roku digital video player at his…
What? No cell phones? No laptops? No tablet computer to take notes? That’s crazy! Last week we had a two-day off-site strategy meeting. Ten people, two days, lots of SWOTs, bullet points, and discussions. It was a good meeting. I…
God is no longer in Yahoo! Messenger, but she is in Twitter. Not on LinkedIn, but several incarnations in Facebook. True story: Several years ago I found God on Yahoo! Messenger. That was the year that Yahoo! Messenger first started….
If only we could just target computers to buy our stuff, instead of people. Some days I want to sell to that guy Commander Data in the Star Trek TV series and movies. He was a computer. Disclosure: I’m not…