June 2007

quote du jour
The biggest companies of the future connect users, they don't speak directly to them. The biggest companies of the future also let other people make money off of them, they don't try to do everything themselves. They are ecosystems for other excited companies.

context
Clayton Christensen...
...ten years after his The Innovator Dilemma, with fresh perspectives and pointing to a new and interesting theory based on discovery-driven planning. [link]
ideas for the future
good read from Dave Winer for the BBC
twitter
I don't use it, and don't think I will very soon though I have endless debates with my friends trying to convince me to jump on the wagon. At the end of the day I just find it too time consuming for the value I would get updating or following other's updates.

That being said I find it incredible that Evan and his team get very valuable insights onto the directions they might take twitter onto - take link 1 or link 2 as some of the recent examples I came across. That's I guess one of the most powerful outcomes of an ever increasingly noisy blogosphere environment.
Long tail critique
good Sunday night reading - intro here then click on the next postings