• Rethinking target markets

    Image via CrunchBase Mike Speiser, Managing Director at Sutter Hill Ventures, has an interesting post on GigaOm today.  An excerpt: Self-Service Nation: Why Targeting Small Business Is Good Business While the 80-20 rule can be very powerful, the reality is that many of the costs associated with building, supporting, distributing…

  • How Microsoft extends the R&D model in India

    Image by Marc_Smith via Flickr Navi Radjou has an interesting post on how Microsoft approaches it’s global R&D over at the Harvard Business blog, excerpt: Microsoft Reinvents Its Global R&D Model – Navi Radjou – HarvardBusiness.org What impressed me most about TEM is its staff members’ multidisciplinary backgrounds. In addition…

  • Amazon is slowly starting to open up the Kindle

    Image by Getty Images via Daylife A few months back I wrote about the need for Amazon to begin ‘socializing’ the Kindle.  Another item of frustration that I forgot to mention in that post was the inability to pull my notes and highlights from the kindle via the web.  I…

  • Ratan Tata gets it

    For all the buzz that Tata’s release of the Nano received last year,  the long term impact of the company’s new venture may be even greater.  The sprawling Tata empire, loosely held together by Ratan Tata, recently announced a plan to build affordable housing for India’s burgeoning middle class.  Here’s an…

  • Change

    Image via Wikipedia I can’t believe it’s May ’09 already.  You’ve probably noticed that this weblog has been pretty silent over the last three months.  This has to do with several significant changes for us.  Those of you who follow my twitter feed know that I’ve actually been very busy…

  • links for 2009-04-30

    The Social Software Value Matrix (tags: socialnetworking wikis blog)

  • links for 2009-04-29

    The Broken Promise of Software Maintenance Fees Great look at the relationship between maintenance fees and R&D at the large enterprise software vendors. (tags: erp crm enterprise_software maintenance_overpricing) Sugar CRM reduces prices across the board, looking for broad adoption | Irregular Enterprise | ZDNet.com (tags: sugarcrm saas hosted pricing)

  • links for 2009-04-28

    The FASTForward Blog » Dominos – Crosssing the Rubicon for Corporates in Social Media: Enterprise 2.0 Blog: News, Coverage, and Commentary (tags: blog social_media enterprise2.0) Determining the ROI of Enterprise 2.0 | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com (tags: enterprise2.0 roi Web2.0 productivity business collaboration software enterprise) The FASTForward Blog »…

  • links for 2009-04-27

    Starter Kit: Social Media and Social Networking Best Practices for Business at Consulting, Online Communities, and Social Media: Fast Wonder Blog (tags: socialmedia socialnetworking Web2.0 business blogging twitter facebook marketing) Is Twitter Revolutionizing CRM? | Marketing Profs Daily Fix Blog (tags: twitter crm socialmedia media corporate business marketing service customerservice)…

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