Web, Internet and the Economy
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Is your business in need of a Chief Strategy Officer (CSO)?
Corporate strategy is the responsibility of the Board and mainly of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) who must, among other things, imprint her vision on the organisation and define the strategy. She must build the DNA of the company and indicate in which course she wants to take it. This…
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Blog Council: Here are a few trustworthy corporate blogs
Corporate blogging isn't easy... And Forrester analyst Josh Bernoff published an interesting report about why people don't trust most company blogs. In fact, looking closer at Josh's comments, it's not corportae blogs but corporate speak that clients don't trust.
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Has e-mail usage in the enterprise gone any better … or worse?
At first sight, this question about e-mail usage might seem ludicrous. But in actual fact it’s not. In 1999 I wrote an article for a French online magazine related to e-mail usage in the professional sphere in which I was drawing my own conclusions after 10 years of e-mail usage…
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A globalised economy, but socially diverse behavioural patterns
A globalised Economy indeed, but socially diverse. Yesterday, I got an e-mail by Stan Relihan, an extremely well-connected user of linkedIn. In a recent podcast, he explains how he uses LinkedIn to generate business relationships. His description of his usage of linked in is different from what we hear ordinarily,…
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IT in Japan: a survey of IT in the land of the rising sun
IT sector in Japan. Michael Thulin is providing access to a few studies which help us understand what the status of broadband subscribers is like in the world and how countries compare to each other (see an excerpt on the left-hand side). IT in Japan: a survey of IT in…
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4,300 major contributors maintain Wikipedia regularly
This is a question I had had for a long time. One felt that online collaboration was becoming mainstream. Still, I had my doubts about the sheer mass of users who were major contributors to a project like the much publicised Wikipedia. Q: Who maintains Wikipedia? A: 4,300 major contributors…
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Memes and Memetics: Why we copy each other – Susan Blackmore
I have interviewed Susan Blackmore, author of “The Meme Machine”. In this interview, Susan reminded us of the basics of Memetics and the Meme concept?” Memes and Memetics: Why we copy each other Susan Blackmore – “The term ‘meme’ was coined by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene.…
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Vive le Blog! The French blog more than their neighbours
The French supposedly blog more than their European neighbours. Honestly, I fail to understand why the world is so interested in such a ridiculously small and peaceful country like ours. Now and then people are heating up about France and the French and why they are so weird, and why they…
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Archive.org, the Waybackmachine is the memory of the Internet
Ever heard about the waybackmachine? I don’t think you could call that Web2.0 or even innovative but still, it’s probably the most awesome Internet website/service I have ever seen: Archive.org is a website and a database which keeps track of all the various versions of almost every website that ever…
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Cafe Delocator Declares War on Uniformity
Thank god, it’s not just a few old gits from Old Europe who seem to be fed up with these faceless standardised, uniformed coffee houses which are cropping up all over the world. A group of anti-marketing coffee house activists has decided to create a delocator to promote their idea…
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Trends in Networking and Collaborative Work: the Networked Economy
Collaborative work has firmly established itself in the business world. Is it paving the way for a networked economy? A mid-2004 IDC survey revealed that their focus group participants consistently voted web conferencing the most suitable collaboration and meeting tool for 60% of everyday meetings and business processes. This demonstrates…
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