March 2011
5 posts
The military plan for removing Gaddafi from Libya
What’s going on. Why isn’t the west doing anything. To answer that you need to think about assets, limitations and what the goal is. Think about how quickly assets move. Think about Baghdad.
Gadaffi won’t be allowed to remain in power, not even in Tripoli. Obama, Sarkozy and Cameron have major stakes in this game now. So do the Arabs. That is the end game and Obama, Cameron and...
This diagramme should be required at all...
as linked to by Kontra on Twitter. Original source unknown. If you know the source please let me know and I will give credit (as credit is due!).
Some people think “open” systems are “better” than closed ones and cite this as a mantra. These are easy terms for fanboys to coalesce around but rather meaningless when you’re a serious business creating products for sale, especially if your goal is to create an extremely user friendly mass market product. On a more sophisticated level its possible to analyse the...
Thoughts on innovation
So what exactly does the word innovation mean in a business context? Like other words of its ilke like “Art” and “Freedom” there are no agreed on definitions. Define innovation too broadly and you find that every small change or alteration is considered innovative. Just listen to Robert Scoble’s enthusiastic gushing about every new twist in social media and...
Thoughts on Innovation at Google and Elsewhere
Patrick Copeland, Google Director of Engineering, gave the keynote at QCon in London this morning (topic innovation) and is reported to have called gmail innovative. Really?
Hotmail (a free email service) was founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith, and was one of the first webmail services on the Internet. It was commercially launched on July 4, 1996 (Wikipedia)
gmail was launched in 2004.
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