December 2008
6 posts
Dec 30th
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Edge competencies by Umair Haque
In practice, then, edge competencies are about realizing complementarities between the firm, and the newer, relatively hyperefficient modes of coordination cheap coordination makes economical - like markets, networks, and communities: about leveraging complex combinations of markets, networks, and communities, to create value in new, hyperefficient ways. Consider search. The dominant design for...
Dec 19th
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Of Montreal vs. Axe Riverboy in the street of Paris. At first, the guys seem to try to” find themselves” till they meet their fans at the corner of the street. The alchemy galvanizes both the audience and the artists, who give a great moment (cover of David Bowie at 5’10”). Yes, “Purpose-Ideas” are articulated via Social Objects , not Messages. (via David...
Dec 15th
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"The Johnston Press - it did not have to be this...
“I agree with the statement that there was a lack of an effective digital strategy, because there was a complete lack of knowledge and comprehension of the economics of living in a pull economy, defined by search, proximity, relevance, contextualisation, metadata, pointing, linking, trust and recommendation. what type of advertsing inventory comes out of that? The search economy is...
Dec 15th
Dec 8th
An Interview With @comcastcares by John Battelle
“We monitor the entire web to assist when we can. This is done through searching blogs, help forums, other social media websites and Twitter. In terms of how many we helped, that is a little hard to completely assess because in Twitter we sometimes fully resolve via tweets. In forums and blogs we will provide a response if we can but sometimes we will call or shift to email. Our email...
Dec 8th