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First thing: Love your community
I’m glad that Jorg Janke shared his experience of developing a commercial open source business with Compiere because you learn from failures as well as success. His long piece has some interesting parts, but what caught my attention most is … Continue reading
Non-profit groups are slow to change
A very good read and something I have seen happen many times with the non-profit groups I worked with: If your non-profit isn’t acting with as much energy and guts as it takes to get funded in Silicon Valley or … Continue reading
Consumers are ‘mobile’, mobile marketing and services follow
Yesterday I went to listen to the conference where MIP, Politecnico Business School, published the results of the research about Mobile Marketing and Services. The research was based on 200 case studies, involving all the major actors of the supply … Continue reading
How Apple will dramatically increase revenues
My architecture professors repeated ad infinitum that an image is worth a thousand words. Following is a pictures that clearly shows how Apple will dramatically increase its revenues in the next year: It’s not (only) the cool design or the … Continue reading
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Tagged apple, disruption, innovation, marketing, revenues, strategy
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GNU/Linux IS ready for the masses
It just needs a company that can market it as such. I was reading about the new version of Asus EeePC and this sentence hit me: “the Linux version is suited to users who desire an icon-driven and easy point-and-click … Continue reading
DefectiveByDesign.org: Together we are Fighting DRM
DefectivebyDesign.org posted a list of actions and campaigns activated and run by FSF in the past year. I really like what the strategy they put in place and the results so far. DefectivebyDesign brought the problem with Digital Restrictions Management … Continue reading
Facebook admits mistake and changes policy
The protest of people on Facebook made the difference.’ Mark Zuckerberg wrote on FB’s blog We’ve made a lot of mistakes building this feature, but we’ve made even more with how we’ve handled them. We simply did a bad job … Continue reading
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Tagged community, facebook, marketing, privacy, social networks, web2.0
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On social networks and human interactions
I have received recently half dozen invitations to join social web2.0 services: Roberto pointed me to twitter during a real life chat in Firenze, other invitations came via email to services like Plaxo pulse, Naymz, hi5, Spook and others. Many … Continue reading
Calabria: gli ultimi sono ultimi
La Regione Calabria ha prodotto 6 manifesti con foto di giovani calabresi cui si sovrappongono degli slogan vuoti, di cui fatico a cogliere il senso. Esempio: Terroni? Sì siamo calabresi. Oppure I peggiori? Sì, siamo calabresi. E altri versi simili … Continue reading
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Tagged calabria, comunicazione, marketing, polemica, toscani
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Facebook: with great power comes great responsibility
I have been playing with Facebook lately to check its potential. Everything started when William Ward invited me there in a moment when I was vulnerable (it was before I started the MBA: a few weeks later and I would … Continue reading
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Tagged community, facebook, marketing, privacy, social network, web2.0
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