Monthly Archives: May 2011
After six hours of working in front of a computer, the only thing that really makes me feel better is a run. Yesterday I knew I needed a break but didn’t have much time, so I laced up my running shoes anyway and ran as hard as I could for 15 minutes. Talk about cathartic. While it wasn’t that long of a run, it was exactly what I needed: a quick jolt to my mind, and something to get my heart rate up. After a glass of water and a quick shower, I was back working like I had just started the day. *** I’ve learned to listen to my body (and wife) to make the most of my time and energy levels. In fact, it’s the one reason I’m able to get up in the early morning and start my day excited. I’ve worked both as a freelance consultant … Continue reading
Web 3.0 relates to the way Web is coming into real world, interacting with every value creation processes. Let’s see how it changes innovation management and leads to build a specific innovation Operating System. There have been two main Internet waves: Web 1.0 has opened a new window to the world: in a mouse click and a stridently modem connection, we were looking from France at American colorful text pages such as Yahoo!, Altavista, and Lycos, navigating with Netscape mosaic, developing “one to one” communication with emails. Web 2.0 has matched with the acceleration of all kinds of distribution: video distribution enabled by broadband connection, e-commerce uptake facilitated by permanent access, information distribution with new generation of search engine like Google, and the rise of exponential “many to many” exchanges linked to social networks like Facebook and Twitter. We have entered a new stage called Web 3.0. Web 3.0 …
There’s a great story out there about luck that goes something like this… A man kept praying to God to win the lottery. That week he found a dollar on the street and he donated it to charity to show God he is worthy. The lottery came and went and he didn’t win. So the next week he prayed again, “Please God, let me win the lottery.” He found an extra dollar in his wallet, and decided to donate it to charity. Again, the lottery came and went. The third week, he prayed harder “Oh wonderful God, I will feed the hungry and save the whales, just please let me win the lottery.” That week some strange man approached him on the streets and handed him a dollar and again the man donated it to charity. The lottery numbers were drawn, and the man did not win. The next week … Continue reading
Recently I wrote about our love affair with television. One of the factors that is fueling the growth of TV in its many guises globally is mobile connectivity, which is going stratospheric, shattering all kinds of limits. In an always-on world our smallest screens wire us to hot hubs, free us to shift to the edge, and unshackle enterprise and entertainment. Here are seven big trends to ponder next time you pick up your iPhone, furnished by a Cisco report earlier this year: Growth is rapacious. Global mobile traffic nearly tripled for the third year in a row in 2010. At 237 petabytes per month, traffic was three times the size of the entire global internet in 2000. Sisomo is taking over. Mobile video traffic will exceed 50 percent of all mobile data traffic for the first time in 2011. It’ll be two-thirds by 2015. Nothing is impossible. There are … Continue reading
