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facebook: from overlord to overload

Posted by maz on August 2nd, 2010

Peter Smith wrote a very interessting comment on facebook’s F8 Conference at PCWorld: Facebook Plots its Future: Will it Be Our Overlord? I agree with Peter in nearly every point – especially I share this approach to 100%: I prefer to keep my professional and personal lives more or less separate. Although I also make [...]

“The Lego of gadgets”

Posted by maz on January 13th, 2008

That’s what Rafe Needleman from Webware called the new product of Bug Labs, that is presented at CES 2008. It’s an open source (concerning soft- AND hardware) plattform that starts with a minicomputer [...] onto which you can snap multiple modules, such as a digital camera, an LCD screen or a GPS-module. The device has [...]

virtual insanity

Posted by maz on June 27th, 2007

During the last few days I came across some articles about the future of virtual worlds. Here are the highlights: Virtual worlds and the future of TV Via the Endless Innovation blog I’ve found an NY Times article about the possible future of TV integrated in virtual worlds. Credit: Sundance Channel via New York Times [...]

Dell’s “new” sales strategy

Posted by maz on May 20th, 2007

Dell’s direct sales strategy is one of the most often cited examples concerning process and business model innovation. Now the CEO Michael Dell announced at CRN that his company is going to enforce other sales channels like commercial resellers and retail stores. So the question is whether Dell is back paddling because it has undervalued [...]

music album = music player

Posted by maz on January 16th, 2007

Axxen wants to introduce a new way of records (as they call it) onto the market. The prototype was called “Plei(g)o” and now they promote it as “Playdisc“. The basic idea is to sell a music album in combination with the player. Mp3- or in this case rather wma-players are getting cheaper and cheaper, but [...]


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