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Nerds Do It Better » Wedding Planning on the Web: 100 Tools and Resources for Brides to Be
competition, dooyt, planner, wedding saved by: 13marcin more details ...
http://www.100bestdatingsites.com/blog/2008/wedding-planning-on-the-web-100-tools-and-resour...
Le logiciel libre interpelle le gouvernement | Technaute | Nouvelles
business, canada, competition, free, government, opensource, quebec, software saved by: millette more details ...
http://technaute.lapresseaffaires.com/nouvelles/texte_complet.php?id=81,12399,0,042007,13453...
Techdirt: Aggregation Is Competition
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20080515/0557501123.shtml
Company Clones
britain, brochures, business, company, competition, distribution, england, flyers, industry, lancashire, More... saved by: aiapoetry more details ...
http://ldstourismservicesltd.blogspot.com/2008/05/company-clone.html
Money doesn't buy happiness - owning your peers does
behavior, competition, happiness, psychology, science, study saved by: deusdiabolus more details ...
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/happiness-is-a-relative-thing/2007/11/25/1195975865973.html
Facebook and The Future of Competition - Harvard Business Online's Umair Haque
Facebook's most productive use today isn't as a social network, but perhaps more as a case study for the rest of us: of how not to think strategically [...] about strategy in an interconn...
2008, article, business, competition, economics, evil, facebook, google, haque, harvardbusiness, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/haque/2008/05/last_week_i_discussed_why.html
Center'd: a hub for planning local events
I'm curious about this, but i haven't tried it yet.
2.0, calendar, check_this_out, community, competition, events, konkurencja, local, people, place, More... saved by: drburix02 and 4 people more details ...
http://www.centerd.com
The 5 Levels of Competitiveness in Social Media | SOCIAL IMPRESSIONS
While some can maintain genuine relationships with people, others see them as part of their massive network. Competition is usually healthy, depending on the amount of competitiveness inv...
2008, article, competition, gaming, seriousgames, socialmedia saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.reemabeidoh.com/social-media/the-5-levels-of-competitiveness-in-social-media
$25 Million Offered In Climate Challenge - washingtonpost.com
British billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson offered a $25 million prize Friday to anyone who can come up with a way to blunt global climate change by removing at least a billion tons...
2007, article, branson, competition, globalwarming, gore, invention saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/09/AR2007020900693.html
For the Brain, Cash Is Good, Status Is Better: Scientific American
New research shows for the first time that we process cash and social values in the same part of our brain (the striatum)—and likely weigh them against one another when making decisions.
2008, article, competition, money, neuroscience, psychology, reputation, status saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=for-the-brain-status-is-better
WorldChanging: International Agricultural Assessment: We Need a Paradigm Shift
A commission of international agriculture experts unveiled a series of reports on Wednesday calling for an end to "business-as-usual" farming practices to avoid widespread environmental d...
2008, agriculture, article, competition, globalization, sustainability, worldchanging saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/007979.html
The Care and Feeding of FOSS: The Lifecycle of Software Technology
There is a natural "lifecycle" to software technology, which includes both commercial periods and FOSS periods. Those who understand this pattern can work with it and thrive.
adaptation, collaboration, commercialization, commoditization, competition, consolidation, expansion, free, innovation, invention, More... saved by: meryn and 2 people more details ...
http://www.moonviewscientific.com/essays/software_lifecycle.htm
The Architecture of Participation
Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.
competition, contribution, innovation, participation saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3017
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
You have three potential innovations, but resources to develop just one. Here are diagnostics to help you make the best decision.
competition, disruption, innovation saved by: meryn more details ...
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4300&t=innovation
Innovation: The Innovator's Battle Plan
Great firms can be undone by disruptors who analyze and exploit an incumbent’s strengths and motivations.
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http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4353&t=innovation
Is Franchising Right for Your Industry?
Today franchising occurs in more than 80 different industries. This chapter will help you determine if franchising is right for your business by considering multiple factors.
competition, decentralization, discretion, reputation, standardization saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.phptr.com/articles/article.asp?p=360649
Complexity Rising: From Human Beings to Human Civilization, a Complexity Profile
This article analyzes the human social environment using the "complexity profile," a mathematical tool for characterizing the collective behavior of a system.
adaptation, allocation, competition, cooperation, coordination, decentralization, evolution, progression, self-organization, specialization, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://necsi.net/projects/yaneer/Civilization.html
Why Strategy Must Change
Competition is becoming more like a free-for-all than a controlled boxing match. The digitization of global economies is transforming all industries into high-tech industries.
communication, competition, computation, disintermediation, innovation saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.mgt.smsu.edu/mgt487/mgtissue/newstrat/index.htm
Seeing What's Next: Porter, Drucker and Christensen
An overview of Michael Porter's, Peter Drucker's, and Chris Christensen's approaches to innovation research.
commoditization, competition, disruption, innovation, investigation, observation, substitution saved by: meryn more details ...
http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/categories/businessInnovation/2005/03/15.html#a1080
Adaptations
The author sees "a maturing and proliferating marketplace in which large new species, all dependent on open source, are coming to dominate the commercial space."
adaptation, commoditization, competition, innovation, maturation, participation saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/7710/print
Consumer power: Crowned at last
With consumers becoming increasingly empowered, how can the marketing, advertising and communications firms that companies use to promote their products hope to get their messages across?
comparison, competition, disintermediation, negotiation, promotion, recommendation, reputation, suggestion saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=3785166
Competition as an evolving network
Competitive pressure on specialists decreased after 1998, as a result of specialist differentiation. During the same period, competitive pressure on generalist search engines, which did n...
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http://users.fmg.uva.nl/jbruggeman/SEnetwork.htm
Sample Chapter for Vermeij, G.J.: Nature: An Economic History.
At its core, this book is an economic analysis of history. In it, I argue that economic principles applicable to humans are the same as those that govern all other forms of life.
adaptation, allocation, competition, consumption, cooperation, coordination, distribution, evolution, production, selection, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/chapters/s7912.html
Perfect competition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A hypothetical market form in which no producer or consumer has the market power to influence prices in the market.
competition, information, substitution, transaction saved by: meryn more details ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_competition
The Artful Manager: Andrew Taylor on the business of arts and culture.
large corporations are coming to realize that they can't invent and shouldn't try to do so themselves. Instead, they outsource invention to a growing group of smaller, crazier, and insane...
competition, diffusion, innovation, invention saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.artsjournal.com/artfulmanager/78189.php
Vendor lock-in
a situation in which a customer is dependent on a vendor for products and services and cannot move to another vendor without substantial switching costs, real and/or perceived.
competition, differentiation, interoperation, protection, standardization, substitution, transition saved by: meryn more details ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in
How to wage - and win - a standards war
Depends on seven key assets: intellectual-property rights; control over an installed base of users; ability to innovate; first-mover advantages; manufacturing abilities; strength in compl...
adoption, attraction, competition, evolution, persuasion, selection, stabilization, standardization saved by: meryn more details ...
http://wired-vig.wired.com/wired/archive/6.10/neweconomy.html?pg=5
Technorati, Bloglines, and The Economics of Feeds
All of this flows from the same capability Technorati developed first - aggregating and indexing blogs. The difference in outcomes is due to the difference in how this capability was expr...
2005, aggregation, article, commercialization, competition, haque, presentation saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.bubblegeneration.com/2005/04/technorati-bloglines-and-economics-of.cfm
The Red Queen Principle
Fitness increase in one evolutionary system will tend to lead to fitness decrease in another system. The only way that a species involved in a competition can maintain its fitness relativ...
adaptation, competition, evolution, internalization, progression saved by: meryn more details ...
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/REDQUEEN.html
Meeting the Acute Need for Entrepreneurial Skills
The New Economy will have an explosive need for critical entrepreneurial skills. Universities are not equipped or inclined to provide them. You can't learn them just by reading a book. We...
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2005/04/04.html#a1100
It's a Flat World, After All
Only 30 years ago, if you had a choice of being born a B student in Boston or a genius in Bangalore or Beijing, you probably would have chosen Boston, because a genius in Beijing or Banga...
competition, globalization saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/magazine/03DOMINANCE.html?pagewanted=1
Some Implications of Software Commodification
Coffee, tea, chocolate, sugar, petroleum, and tobacco, just like digital media, web documents, and databases, all incorporated innovative uses of their underlying resource into explosive ...
commoditization, competition, imitation, standardization, utilization saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.synthesist.net/writing/commodity_software.html
Open Source Paradigm Shift: Software as Commodity
Software commoditization has been driven by standards, in particular by the rise of communications-oriented systems such as the Internet, which depend on shared protocols, and define the ...
commoditization, competition, disruption, innovation, ossification, standardization, substitution saved by: meryn more details ...
http://tim.oreilly.com/articles/paradigmshift_0504.html#swcommod
From Intel Inside to Intel Everywhere: Will the Chipmaker's Strategy Work?
observers suggest Intel is wisely pursuing new opportunities. Strong growth rates in the traditional PC arena have slowed down, and the semiconductor industry's recent momentum has peaked...
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http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/index.cfm?fa=viewFeature&id=1014
The Word "Open"
Open standards promote substitution, and thus competition. They are the standardized rails of the network - and the customer's best friend.
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http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan/20040808#rewriting_history_and_vocabulary
Competition in the Software Industry
The software industry is becoming massively more competitive - on desktops, servers, phones, dashboards and networking machinery. For the first time in a long time. Which is good news for...
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http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan/20040718#responding_to_ross
Tech Commodities 101
There will always be innovation in software and not all software will be a commodity. The trend is more software being built upon commodity inputs, mostly open source.
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http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2004/07/tech_commoditie.html
Commodities, Railroads and How Sun Monetizes Java
What's really commoditizing? Bandwidth. Not software, not hardware, bandwidth. It's coming out of the wall in your house and office, just like a three prong outlet provides another commod...
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http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan/20040712#commodities_railroads_and_how_sun
x86 facing real competition
Look at history from 1980 forward and what you see since is that the Wintel consortium evolved around the IBM PC to give us about 24 years of predictable change in which the dominant arch...
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=277&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
Hardware's sinking beneath a software sea
As more software targets the operating system as opposed to hardware (or rather, hardware with a custom OS specific to that hardware), economics of scale develop around generic software.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-985650.html
Why the third world won't save open source
Having systems that integrate seamlessly with, and can consume products created by, Western corporations will continue to be important [for Asian companies].
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1343
Linux vs Windows Servers: Notttt Exactly
There is a new generation of applications coming into play - call them open and interoperable. They are primarily Java based servers and Web Service enabled.
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http://www.theopensourcery.com/wordp1/index.php?p=256
Racing Its Rivals, I.B.M. Risks Tripping Itself Up
The logic is to move up the economic ladder to more complex and more profitable tiers of the services industry, thus staying ahead of rivals offering less expensive services - Indian outs...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/16/technology/16place.html?
Google and the Coming Search Wars, Revisited
Market forces [will] eventually bring regime change [in the search industry], but it could take decades. [...] My own hope is that Google will conclude that enlightened self-interest lea...
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http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/04/wo/wo_040405ferguson.asp?p=0
What to Expect from Consolidation
Potentially to its advantage, Oracle's acquisition could raise barriers to entry, slow the pace of market innovation, and increase pricing power.
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http://earlyindications.blogspot.com/2005/01/what-to-expect-from-consolidation.html
Focus of Startups
What is the point? Focus on what you are doing that is different. Listen to your core constituency that makes your site worth going to.
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http://www.personalinfocloud.com/2005/04/focus_of_startu.html