http://www.speedmediablog.com Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 08 Jun 2008 07:06:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I attended the Web 2.0 Expo last week, where Jonathan Zittrain spoke about his latest book – The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It. It's a big idea about the future of tech with constitutional implications. The book is focused on the form the web takes ... http://www.speedmediablog.com/2008/05/02/on-site-at-web-20-zittrains-web-spook/ The NY Times was in the news yesterday – this time, a docile development related to its web site leadership. The Times was nominated for several Webby awards. In fact, the company has the largest presence of any organization with nine nominations, including the following categories: Best Visual ... http://www.speedmediablog.com/2008/04/09/beyond-headwinds-at-the-times/ There are a number of tools available on the web that will take your documents and analyze the contents statistically to help you identify patterns. For the investment community, these technologies are not quite ready for prime time. In other words, the potential to glean insights is hit-or-miss. ... http://www.speedmediablog.com/2008/03/09/reading-googles-latest-10k-with-many-eyes/ Microsoft or Google - what might be the Yahoo employee perspective? While guaranteed outcomes may trump the unknown for investors, a different logic seems to apply for Yahoo employees thus far. That's understandable at this early stage of the process. It was assumed that Yahoo would ... http://www.speedmediablog.com/2008/02/15/yahoos-future-the-employee-take/ Ad Meter is a great cultural artifact which has been around for 20 years. It uses a live panel to record second by second sentiment about Super Bowl commercials. It works like this: 234 panelists use a device to continuously rate how they feel about ads in real time. An ... http://www.speedmediablog.com/2008/02/04/ad-meter-room-to-grow-still-a-wonder/ The new year brings some management changes at Cisco. Charlie Giancarlo recently retired from the company to join tech buyout firm, Silver Lake Partners. Charlie spent 14 years at Cisco and was most recently the Chief Development Officer, effectively the #2 executive and possible successor to CEO, John Chambers. I had ... http://www.speedmediablog.com/2008/01/10/new-year-brings-change-at-cisco/ Many large companies find themselves launching new businesses at unprecedented rates in an effort to maintain growth profiles, margins and leadership status. When a company pursues new markets, that can include a variety of corporate initiatives which are distinct from each other. At the highest level in terms of potential ... http://www.speedmediablog.com/2007/12/15/categories-move-the-needle/ Comcast has a fantastic marketing campaign these days that you've probably seen on television or billboards. Building on the "It's Comcastic" theme, the company is having fun innovating on the English language in ways that speak to digital life. This involves devising new buzz-phrases like "snurfing" (surfing the web instead ... http://www.speedmediablog.com/2007/11/08/coming-soon-linguistic-mash-ups/ Marc Andreessen recently wrote a useful post about web platforms. It’s a timely collection of thoughts that has spurred conversation amongst executives at several large technology companies, including Yahoo and Google, according to my sources. There’s a lot of ambiguity around this whole issue of platforms so I’m ... http://www.speedmediablog.com/2007/10/20/talking-platforms/ Labs, research and incubation practices within large companies are growing in importance and influence. For this reason, I'm starting to pull together information on how innovation is being pursued by large technology and media companies, while raising some questions about these approaches in the process. There's no doubt the ... http://www.speedmediablog.com/2007/09/15/labs-now-front-and-center/