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Reading Links for December 20th

December 20, 2011

My del.icio.us links and notes. What Delicious Could Have Done (But Sadly Never Did) | Have they missed the boat again? – I've been a delicious fan for a long time. I import these bookmarks to my blog (no help from delicious), and increasingly feel like I'm one of the few that continue to use [...]

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Reading Links for September 9th

September 9, 2011

My del.icio.us links and notes. Lurkers have value says FredWilson – indeed they do. Important to defining the value of Twitter – "Twitter has 400mm active users a month, 100mm of them are engaged enough to log in, but only 60mm tweet. For years people have made it out like this is a bad thing. [...]

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What Strategic Convos Should HP Have Had?

August 23, 2011

What happens now at HP? It appears there’s many conversations that HP didn’t have before announcing they would purchase Autonomy and look to divest the Personal Services Group. We know the board was involved and we can presume outside advisors and deal makers. However, we also know that the head of the Personal Services Group [...]

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Reading Links for August 17th

August 18, 2011

These are my del.icio.us links for August 17th: HP to spin off PC business, discontinues TouchPad | Signs of bad management. – Ok! I’m surprised! This seems like no way to run a company. And yes…. as should be expected HP stocks tank! Mark Microsoft as a potential buyer! Although I think that would be [...]

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Netflix – Misses a Convo Opp – Blows off customers.

July 13, 2011

Yesterday Netflix announced new pricing. A 60% increase in the cost of getting DVD’s. Many complained that Netflix failed to provide an adequate rationale for the move. More than 5000 comments on their blog post. All resoundingly negative.  And there’s a thread #dearnetflix on Twitter. However, as a Netflix user it’s obvious to me why [...]

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Kelly Fitzsimmons – Why Voice Matters #ecomm

June 28, 2011

The keynote presentation to kick of the second day of eComm. Relevant Voice Platforms  -  Kelly Fitzsimmons, HarQen. Words generally paraphrased below. Presentation was much better than my notes! Clearly need her product! “Text provides the IQ but misses the EQ” Voice is really important. How many of you are on top of your communications? [...]

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Reading Links for May 7th

May 7, 2010

Daily update on del.icio.us links with my notes. I also just tweet links @stuarthenshall Are You Looking at Past to Design Future – @nilofer on Nokia’s Strategy – same POV – "The VC community gets this right by letting intuitively clear thinkers lead. If only we could mesh that with public company mindsets so we [...]

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Reading Links for May 4th

May 5, 2010

These are my del.icio.us links for May 4th: Apple Wins Strategic Multitouch Gesturing Patent | Patent Law gone wrong. What’s the way around this? – I really believe these gestures should be "standardised". I understand why Apple wants them yet using screens is a little like using a car. We all need a wheel. The [...]

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Reading Links for February 19th

February 19, 2010

Daily update on del.icio.us links with my notes. I also just tweet links @stuarthenshall A post by Todd Carothers on "The Skype Empire" and impact on landlines | Nah… strategically think broader – "In fact many of the executive leadership of Fixed Line and Mobile Operators that I met with back in 2004 saw Skype [...]

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Mobiles, Beer and Segmentation – Approaching Dynamic Segments

January 6, 2010

How do mobiles and beer go together? Or not? This is the second post building on earlier reflections and considering how they apply to “segmenting the mobile market”.  For my beer and mobile question I may get a range of answers. From arranging a meetup to feeling good showing off my new phone. Someone else [...]

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What could Apple see in Twitter? Are Tweets – MobileMe 3.0 Notifications? Is Apple really David?

May 7, 2009

I keep reading Apple + Twitter stories and no-one seems to have a clue why it might be a good idea… or a very bad idea… or simply unnecessary. What almost no one does… is tell me a story of why it might be a good idea. This is a crude little thought experiment. An [...]

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Bluetooth Keyboards for iPhone 3.0 Still Speculation – Is there a market?

March 19, 2009

One of the iPhone 3.0 features I’m most interested in is where the Bluetooth functionality they are unlocking is going to go. (Some think not that important.) My iPhone 3.0 now plays music on my car stereo! That’s huge from my perspective. Yet I have some yearning for the capability to use it with other [...]

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What’s the Mobile Future?

February 18, 2009

What would the lesson for mobile operators be if the world around us collapses economically. What lessons can be learned from other markets? How will users react? What and how should you prepare? I read yet another piece this morning (Jim Kunstler’s Forecast 2009) that captures an outlook similar to my own. We’re in a [...]

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Modding the 3G iPhone – Cracking the Case

May 12, 2008

Many have been predicting for weeks iPhone Black as the 3G version. The latest flurry over the weekend when apparently AT&T listed it on their website. Oops! The problem with all these predictions is there is no rationale other than it is cool. Who’s asking why? Why aren’t they? I believe the mobile handset market [...]

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Hubert Saint-Onge on Collaboration @ KMWorld

November 6, 2007

Fairly full group in this room now for Hubert Saint Onge’s disucssion on Collaborative Networks and the New Enterprise. 1) explore why the capacity for collaboration is vital to the new enterprise? 2) Define guiding principles for developing collaborative networks. 3) Review the leadership challenges inherent to effective collaboration 4) Identify an approach for selection [...]

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