Daniel Boorstin, author and historian, was right when he observed that, "the
greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance: its the illusion of
knowledge." Its true; to realize the potential this exciting time of change
offers requires letting go of certain past assumptions. Disengaging from old
thinking enables a consideration and potential adoption of innovations
impossible before but central to driving new opportunities. When evaluating
every industry today, the primary barriers to moving ahead toward a positive
future have much more to do with interests vested in the past than the
potential the future offers. Nowhere is this more accurate when considering
the struggling music industry of today.
Enter Spotify. Founded in 2006 by Daniel Ek, former CTO of Stardoll, an... (more)
The Web 2.0 summit just wrapped up in SFCA this past week. There are some
noteworthy observations and content on their web site and in particular Mary
Meeker's annual overview of Internet trends . Take an moment to review her
in-depth presentaioin below. A huge surge in mobile access is about to, yet
again, revolutionize businesses and the adoption of new technologies using
cloud infras... (more)
Much is being made of the pending Google book settlement. Now Microsoft,
Amazon and Yahoo are jumping in to object to the settlement as well. Despite
all of the fuss about Google, this complex matter truly results from a lack
of appropriate stewardship of our intellectual property laws by Congress. It
is why most of these issues are relegated to the courts to settle (see
Lessig's lecture... (more)
Google's head, Eric Schmidt, recently shared his views on a series of topics
at the Aspen Ideas Festival. He addressed how "old" institutions are
inefficient and in particular governments. His solution is transparency
because as he puts it, "many bureaucrats know what they are doing is not
effective". Schmidt goes on to question why the US attracts foreign students
and then kicks them ou... (more)
Cloud Computing on Ulitzer
Cloud computing is offering advanced ways for businesses to apply the most
cutting edge technologies to support their key business processes - rapidly
and affordably. Now there is another interesting example as the video below
shows.
Google's Wave is a new and interesting seminal Cloud technology. Wave was
invented by brothers Jens Rasmussen and Lars Rasmussen ... (more)