On Stuff…
Forbes has a terrific roundup of people chatting about important stuff. Like Communications.
Big Numbers From Technorati
- As of October 2005, Technorati is now tracking 19.6 million weblogs
- The total number of weblogs tracked continues to double about every 5 months
- The blogosphere is now over 30 times as big as it was 3 years ago, with no signs of letup in growth
- About 70,000 new weblogs are created every day
- About a new weblog is created each second
- 2% – 8% of new weblogs per day are fake or spam weblogs
- Between 700,000 and 1.3 million posts are made each day
- About 33,000 posts are created per hour, or 9.2 posts per second
- An additional 5.8% of posts (or about 50,000 posts/day) seen each day are from spam or fake blogs, on average
Thanks to Steve for the pointer.
NetNewsWire Acquired By Newsgator…
Probably old news to many of you but in searching for a news reader that integrates well with Outlook I stumbled across this:
Acquisition of NetNewsWire strengthens NewsGator’s RSS Platform and extends it to the Mac esktop, Brent Simmons joins NewsGator team.Denver, CO – October 4, 2005 – NewsGator Technologies, Inc., the leading RSS platform company, announced today that it has acquired NetNewsWire, the leading RSS reader for Mac OS X. NewsGator also announced that NetNewsWire will integrate tightly with the NewsGator Online synchronization platform. Brent Simmons, the creator of NetNewsWire, will be joining the NewsGator team as a product architect.
NetNewsWire is a great product – would be terrific to see it on Windows.
This Summarizes The Change Taking Place In the Valley
“Ten years ago, everyone thought they were the next Bill Gates,” said Harley Shaiken, a University of California-Berkeley professor specializing in labor issues. “Now you may realize you just have a lot of hours and no social life, so you want some compensation up front. … Increasingly, innovation is going to have to be balanced against reasonable working conditions.” [from Good Morning Silicon Valley]
Blink…
Read John’s post over at Brandshift… good read…
"Companies spend billions on market research to divine the needs and wants of consumers and businesses. Yet the new-product failure rate remains high. And we’re not coming up with better product concepts by listening to the voice of the customer. Why? Maybe the customer isn’t worth listening to."
I worked for John Roth at Nortel – he said the same thing differently… listen to the leading-edge customers. The ones right at the bleading edge. In other words, don’t listen to the ordinary. Innovation doesn’t come from the ordinary – it comes from the edge.
John W says it right – focus on participating with customers. Inevitably a vast amount of businesses don’t sell to the end consumer. We participate in a value stream. We need to participate to truly understand the value our products create. And then we need to innovate around that value.
FD: I write for Brandshift
