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Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the internet.
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Tags: BusinessWeek, Google, Innovation, Mixergy, Seth Godin, Swiss Miss
Google (well, James Hamilton) has weighted in on the question of private clouds. As expected from a large cloud provider, James takes the position that private clouds make no sense. His reasoning is straight forward: private clouds will never have the scale of public clouds, therefore private clouds can never achieve the same price point as their public brethren. Ergo, there’s no point in building private clouds.
As I’ve pointed out before, there’s a lot more to cloud than simply reducing costs. The biggest benefit is probably the agility that cloud can bring to your IT estate, leveraging a cloud platform’s ability to codify and automate many of the management practices and create a target platform that can work across a range of deployment options, as well as streamlining hardware provisioning. Companies are also increasingly having to deal with the realities of political boundaries, a situation where the best technical solution might not be acceptable due to legal requirements (such as privacy legislation). Developing a private cloud can be a sensible move in this context.
Of course, if you want to compete purely on cost then private cloud will never hit the same price point as public cloud. But this misses the point that for many companies IT flexibility/agility is more important than cost.
Note: I was going to post this as a comment on James’ post, but comments appear to be broken.
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Tags: cloud computing, Google, Posterous
As I’ve mentioned before, I would like a nice, clear, crisp definition for mash-up. A definition which captures the benefits that mash-ups can bring, rather than detailing a collection of tools, technologies and standards that we happen to find interesting at the time. For me, this is the TQM argument of fusing data and process to eliminate unnecessary decisions—make-work or swivel chair integration—to create a more efficient and effective work environment.
It’s Just a Bunch of Stuff That Happens has done a brilliant job of capturing this visually (included below). I like the usability aspect this highlights. A mash-up’s focus is cross-application usability—removing the annoyances of dealing with separate information sources. We could simply take these sources and squish them up against the glass, delivering the content into iGoogle or NetVibes gadgets. But what those original push-pins on a map mash-ups did was improve the usability of these information sources by eliminating the decisions required to navigate across them. Just as Apple did with the iPod and iPhone, eliminating or fusing functions to eliminate the (unnecessary) decisions required to navigate the overly complex and confusing interfaces of the mobile phones that came before them.
iGoogle and NetVibes are the Symbian to a mash-up’s iPhone.
Symplicity
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Tags: Apple, Google, iGoogle, iPhone, iPod, It's Just a Bunch of Stuff That Happens, NetVibes, Symbian, TQM
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the internet.
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Tags: BusinessWeek, Globalization, Google, Innovation, Royal Pingdom, Stefan Lindegaard, The Economist, U.S.
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the internet.
As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated.
This issue:
- The Disruption Talk [A VC]
Fred Wilson (a VC in New York) partly crowd-sourced a presentation on disruption, presented at Google, recorded and stashed on YouTube.
- In-N-Out Burger’s six secrets for out-and-out success [Daily Finance]
On the heels of mounting cynicism generated by Wall Street bailouts and the perception that corporate leaders are gaming the system to make a profit, at least one American company is proving that businesses can survive and even thrive while sticking to traditional values.
- Farmers Didn’t Invent Tractors. They Were Busy Farming. [Ben Casnocha]
There’s a cliche in innovation / entrepreneurship which says, “Scratch your own itch.” That is, solve problems that you know really well. This is not always so.
- Obama’s Seven Lessons for Radical Innovators [Harvard Business]
Barak Obama’s presidential bid succeeded was a research lab for using social media in a political campaign. It differs from yesterday’s political organizations as much as Google and Threadless differ from yesterday’s corporations: all are a tiny handful of truly new, 21st century institutions in the world today. Here are the seven rules his campaign lived by.
Tags: Ben Casnocha, Daily Finance, disruption, Fred Wilson, Google, Harvard Business, In-N-Out Burger, Innovation, invention, Obama, Social Media, YouTube
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the internet.
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Tags: BusinessWeek, Designer Notes, Google, Innovation, Jeff Koons, Malcolm Gladwell, New Yorker, pantherhouse
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the internet.
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Tags: ABC News, Apple, BusinessWeek, Cultural Fuel, David Lynch, Google, Innovation, Palio-Future
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around
the Internet.
As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated.
This issue:
- Inside Google’s design process [BusinessWeek: Innovation]
Google takes an integrated approach to innovation, pulling together design, analysis and engineering to create an iterative processes which helps them nurture small ideas into big products.
- Horizontal Innovation Networks: By and for Users [Eric von Hippel]
Innovation development, production, distribution and consumption networks can be built up horizontally—with actors consisting only of innovation users (more precisely, “user/self-manufacturers”). Some open source software projects are examples of such networks, and examples can be found in the case of physical products as well. In this article, we discuss three conditions under which user innovation networks can function entirely independently of manufacturers. We then explore related empirical evidence, and conclude that conditions favorable to horizontal user innovation networks are often present in the economy.
- Jim Jarmusch On Stealing From Everywhere [PSFK]
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination…
- If Isaac Asimov designed your computer… [Educated Guesswork]
Like nearly all science fiction authors of that era, Asimov got computers pretty much all wrong, in at least three major ways.
Tags: BusinessWeek, Educated Guesswork, Eric von Hippel, Google, Innovation, Isaac Asimov, Jim Jarmusch, PSFK
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the Internet.
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Tags: BusinessWeek, Google, Innovation, NASA, PSFK
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the Internet.
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Tags: Add-Art, BusinessWeek, FastCompany.com, Google, Innovation, P&G, strategy+business
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