Facebook may not have worked it out yet but they are getting played with. 1-2% is nothing, it’s not a takeover, it’s a cheap option to play the game, with a lot more power as an investor. The oldest trick in the M&A world is to “get a chunk”. Taking a bite gives you so [...]
There is an amazing Lyre Bird BBC YouTube clip that is a must see! It’s mimicking sirens and chainsaws. Emma, the kids and I went for bushwalk and we weren’t sure but we thought we heard a Lyre Bird mimicking a siren. We couldn’t see the bird though so no confirmed sighting. It reminded me [...]
Youtube is getting more views than most reality TV shows these days. Tonight I saw strong anecdotal evidence that we are past the reality TV product cycles apex. Advertised tonight was a new show called the “Oldest Drivers in Britain”. Now they really are running out of ideas. There are still many years left and [...]
I posted my thoughts on interruptions in business life today on our Saasu Blog. If you feel the barrage of interruptions like I often do then take refuge in my post called Business Interruptus. Better still get the RSS into your reader or homepage of choice and you won’t miss my posts there.
I was contemplating why we as humans design things in order to create the new and the better versions of what we have. It doesn’t seem to fit very well relative to nature which will tend to use chance and filter the good results. Evolution doesn’t do design. So an inquiry into what this means [...]
I posted about our plans for Saasu.com’s sustainable business on the Saasu.com blog. So I won’t comment in length here. It’s many hours of Saasu.com research that might be helpful in your own business.
When the Net began to evolve it was interesting to see what unfolded first. Yep, you guessed it was the easy business models like lists, search, news and online versions of paper publishing. When I decided to get into the Internet business I said to myself “everyone in this ASP (Application Service Provider) game is [...]
This is without a doubt one of the next big areas for business to consumer on the net. Wellbeing is a hot topic. Yes it always has been, however I think we’ve only seen the tip of the recreational iceberg. Happiness is every humans number one driver. It’s the original driver that causes all other [...]
Try these mind games as a way to get yourself prioritised for the day: A reality TV crew rocks up to your offices and says we are doing a show called “Bills Not The Boss”. They ask if Bill Gates can work for you for a day. What would you get him to do? “Google [...]
I don’t claim to be a Web2.0 expert, no-one can, it’s bigger than all of us. However, I read a lot of really good posts on topic and some really, really bad ones so I thought I’d just give you an utterance of my strange sense of humour. Let’s leave aside artificial intelligence (my favourite), [...]