The end of the web? Goodbye HTML, hello AIDI!
Why the web as we know it may fade and what AI, personal agents, and data interfaces mean for publishers, SEO, and commerce.
Topic: Disruptive innovation
How Clayton Christensen’s theory of disruptive innovation helps explain the rise of Positionless Marketing
Assembly-line marketing is obsolete. Positionless Marketing is the disruptive innovation transforming how brands connect with customers in real time.
Three ways local businesses can survive the on-demand threat
How worried should brick-and-mortar businesses be about companies like Amazon? Columnist Adam Dorfman weighs in with some thoughts on how local players can stay competitive.
Big Trends (Hint: Mobile) Emerging In Online Advertising’s Next Frontiers
One of the most competitive and interesting sports in reporting on what’s happening in the online world is the ongoing game of predicting the future. Just as we’re seeing regime change in North Africa and the Middle East, it looks as if we’re experiencing another tectonic shift in the universe of online ads.
If Google Is The New Microsoft, Facebook Is The New Google
One can guess that Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak probably doesn’t “Like” Facebook anymore, the website that now topples governments. (I apologize but I couldn’t resist.) Back in the US the Facebook enemies or, more precisely, “frenemies list” is also growing says a piece in the the Wall Street Journal. The article discusses Facebook’s broad ambitions and […]
Google’s Eric Schmidt Chronicles Newspapers’ Decline As He Offers To Help
Newspaper reader Eric Schmidt, who happens to be Google’s CEO, has spoken frequently about his reverence for news journalism and the important role it plays in society. He and his organization have worked with and reached out to publishers to find ways to promote and expose their content online. Yet despite these overtures many newspaper […]
Disruptamundo: Google Adds Turn-by-Turn Navigation To Mobile Maps
I hate the word “disruptive,” as it’s often used in the internet world, because it’s something of a cliche. But I use it here because the new Navigation for Google Maps for Mobile will in fact be — disruptive. On Monday we covered Google Navigation, the then rumor, asking “Will A Free Google GPS Sink […]
Will A Free Google GPS Sink The Navigation Industry?
Lots of companies make a good living from hardware and software GPS navigation systems. In the US carriers such as Verizon and Sprint and personal navigation device (PND) makers such as TomTom, Garmin, Magellan, among others, earn device and subscription revenues from turn-by-turn routing and directions and points of interest directories. There are a number […]
Microsoft Aiming For ‘More Disruption’ In Search
Next month Microsoft will relaunch its search engine or launch its new search engine (currently dubbed Kumo/Kiev) together with a new marketing campaign to promote it. The question on everyone’s minds is: will it change anything? Despite a range of efforts so far Redmond has not been able to boost its market share in search. […]
Will Google Succumb To “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?
John Borthwick, a former AOL/TW executive, writes a piece for Silicion Alley Insider on the phenomenon now known as “The Innovator’s Dilemma” and how it blindsided AOL — despite the fact that the company thought it was prepared for it. In his post, Borthwick describes an AOL HR retreat several years ago: On the second […]
The New Yorker On Google: Avoiding Regulation, Arrogance
Just before New Year’s, I published a fictional look at what might happen to Google if it was forced to breakup due to government regulation. In The Search Party this week from The New Yorker, there’s a nice long look by author Ken Auletta on how such efforts to regulate Google might be developing in […]