Affluenza

I believe, the same Affluenza that is plaguing America’s work-ethic – can be tapped into, to find the next geeration consumer markets.

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Book Publishing moves West?

Looks like there is more stir in the Book Publishing world, besides my earlier article on Peter Redford’s Browse experiment. Check out www.vidlit.com which Barb Rybka tipped me on – yet another experiment on how people foresee the evolution of books into some sort of a democratic new media publishing.

P-A-L-M to the boonies?

Wall Street Journal reports that the two Palms are showing signs of wanting to getting back together. “PalmOne Inc. said it is acquiring full rights to the “Palm” brand name and will change its name to Palm Inc. later this year. Milpitas, Calif.-based PalmOne also said Tuesday that it has renewed its license of the

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Boonies may be the next big opportunity

SME. SME. SME. Those Farms and Fisheries in India are mostly SMEs. How big are these segments? Large enough to tip the market share war in Wireless OS that today is dominated by the Symbian OS, with its largescale support from Nokia, in favor of some lesser players like Microsoft and PalmSource? Could these grassroots applications for the bottom of the pyramid become killer apps in the quest for seducing the next billion computer / telecom users?

Well done, Microsoft!

This is why, Microsoft is still an impressive company … they don’t get it, they don’t get it, they don’t get it … and then, one day, they get it. And they get it right. Remember the browser war of the mid-nineties?

Netflix, look elsewhere!

Netflix and Walmart have decided to partner, turning over all of 100,000 Walmart DVD rental customers to Netflix. Not bad, but probably, also, not great! This is a good block and tackle strategy for Netflix, and it IS good news that at least one of the competitors becomes an ally. But the threats of the

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Screenwriters and the Electronic Gaming Bubble

With the Electronic Gaming bubble bubbling and frothing, with Mobile Entertainment startups snapping up an unusually large share of venture funding dollars, many commodity gaming products will be hitting the market in the next few years. There is, however, an opportunity in this nightmare, for screenwriters who can make the transition from sequential story-telling to

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Silicon Valley: Invite Bob and Harvey Weinstein for a chat

So, what is the spec for the next generation film studio? While Los Angeles still reigns supreme as the capital of the film industry, New York seems to be creating a niche for itself in independent “little” films. As Broadband becomes broader and more ubiquitous, what role will Silicon Valley play, to further unshackle the film industry from the clutches of the Hollywood power structure.