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A little while ago, I had the opportunity to talk to some people about multi-sided open platforms and their threat to traditional companies; the “traditional companies” I chose to speak about were eBay and Amazon, just to make a point; and I characterised the emergent competitor as follows:

25m participants, already an eighth the size of [...]

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I’ve just finished reading Nicholas Carr’s latest article, The Ignorance of Crowds, in the latest issue of Strategy & Business. (And it’s refreshing to note that Booz Allen Hamilton don’t appear to have constructed the traditional consultant paywall. For this relief much thanks.)
Carr makes a number of points succinctly and eloquently, and peppers them with [...]

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In a post headed Tara and the Blue Monster, Hugh discusses Tara Hunt’s comments on Microsoft’s adoption of the Blue Monster; Tara’s scepticism is something that is shared by many, and she makes a key point:
… it isn’t as simple as GM keeping Tahoe-bashing ads up on their site longer or Microsoft using a cool [...]

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Today’s Evening Standard informs me:
Windfarm owners in the country are used to facing legal challenges and complaints from nearby residents, who claim the ranks of vast windmills are an eyesore. But in Germany — Europe’s biggest user of windpower — it is the windfarms that are suing each other.
At the heart of the complaints is [...]

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