Reader Discussion: The Amazon Experience
This thread is for reader comments and questions on the essay Killer Platforms: The Amazon Experience.(For a text version of the essay, see the essay's posting on this blog.)
View ArticleWrite an Amazon Review
If you enjoyed Killer Platforms: The Amazon Experience, or even if you didn't, consider writing a review of the essay on its Amazon reader review page.As an incentive for thoughtful reviews (both...
View ArticleA few words on Nicholas Carr's "IT Doesn't Matter"
Nicholas Carr’s argument builds on some grains of truth, but it is incomplete and reaches erroneous conclusions. Throughout its history, aspects of IT have always slid towards commoditization. Today,...
View ArticleInnovation Dogma
Competitive advantage is as beautiful and as fleeting as a rose in bloom. And, just as a beautiful scent soon goes unnoticed, yesterday's competitive differentiators just become part of the price of...
View ArticleKiller Platforms
In Unleashing the Killer App, Larry Downes and I helped popularize the notion of a “killer app.” We defined a killer app as “a new good or service that establishes an entirely new category and, by...
View ArticleAmazon Update
Amazon.com recently posted its second quarter, 2005, results. You can find the company's investor presentation here.Highlights include:revenue was $1.75 billion, up 26% year over yeargross profit was...
View ArticlePreview: Emergent Data
[The is a pre-publication draft. You can download a PDF of the entire essay here. Please join the discussion by clicking on the "comments" button below. I'm looking forward to your criticisms,...
View ArticleMIT Enterprise Forum
Below is an essay motivated by my presentation to The MIT Enterprise Forum's Annual Innovation and Technology Forecast conference. It is still a bit rough around the edges, comments and suggestions...
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DX Summit
Emergent Knowledge: The Spark for Information AdvantageHere are the slides for my March 7, 2006, presentation at the DX Summit, one of DiamondCluster International'sDiamondExchange programs. The...
View ArticleEmergent Knowledge - Reader Discussion
This is a discussion area for the final version of my essay on "Emergent Knowledge," which is now available on Amazon.com.I look forward to your comments and suggestions as I continue to explore the...
View ArticleEdge Technologies -- Reader Discussion
This is a discussion area for my essay on "Edge Technologies," which was published in the April issue of Optimize Magazine. Please share your questions and comments here, or feel free to contact me...
View ArticleUpdate
My entries to this blog have been rather sparse lately, primarily because I’ve been focused on a new book project on strategic failure patterns (in collaboration with Paul Carroll). I'm happy to...
View ArticlePersonalized Medical Monitors
The March/April 2007 issue of Technology Review has a very interesting article on personalized medical monitors. The article by Jennifer Chu describes innovative work by MIT’s John Guttag to discover...
View ArticleFacebook vs. MySpace
A couple of recent articles highlight contrasting platform strategies at Facebook and MySpace as they battle for the lead in social networking. An article in The Wall Street Journal, “Facebook Gets...
View ArticlePeer Pressure Advertising
Facebook.com is reportedly working on a system that allows advertisers to target users not just on basic demographic information like gender, age, and location, but also based on preferences, interests...
View ArticleContent Aware Image Resizing
Some fascinating work:The related paper is here: Shai Avidan, Ariel Shamir Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image ResizingACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 26, Number 3, SIGGRAPH 2007
View ArticleForum de la Innovacio 2006, Barcelona
Here's a link to a video interview that I did for the Forum de la Innovacio, held in Barcelona in October, 2006. The forum is hosted by the Generalitat de Catalunya.
View ArticleOne Laptop Per Child...Every Child
OLPC is an education project, not a laptop project. Children are a mission, not a market. -- Nicholas NegroponteAs you might know, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Foundation has been working for...
View ArticleAndroid Longs for Killer App
Every new platform needs a killer app, an application so compelling that users will flock onto that platform. The first electronic spreadsheets, led by Visicalc, for example, was the application that...
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