http://www.guidewiregroup.com/site_archive/ Home | Blog | Events | Media | Network| About en-us Copyright 2008 Tue, 31 Jan 2006 07:45:09 -0800 Sat, 10 May 2008 04:08:52 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.16 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss I've had some very thoughtful responses to the Macro Issues newsletter, and I'll bring those into an upcoming edition. Because January has already rolled around, however, it's time for some polishing of the crystal ball. I'll repeat the fact, true... http://www.guidewiregroup.com/archives/2006/01/eight_predictio.html http://www.guidewiregroup.com/archives/2006/01/eight_predictio.html HomeMain Tue, 31 Jan 2006 07:45:09 -0800 Before we get into the business of predicting what might happen in technology-related areas in 2006, I wanted to step back and note six macro-level factors that, if they break in a certain way, will make discussions about Google vs.... http://www.guidewiregroup.com/archives/2006/01/january_2006_a.html http://www.guidewiregroup.com/archives/2006/01/january_2006_a.html HomeMain Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:48:05 -0800 A year ago I tried to highlight some areas of instability, opportunity, and uncertainty that might be resolved in calendar 2005. Reviewing this list, it's striking how little some things change (the DVD standards battle) and how much other industries... http://www.guidewiregroup.com/archives/2006/01/2005_prediction.html http://www.guidewiregroup.com/archives/2006/01/2005_prediction.html HomeMain Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:16:04 -0800 It's hard to believe that it's been over a decade since the notion of Internet disintermediation first received widespread attention in Bill Gates' book, The Road Ahead. If you look at travel agents who collected a lot of money for... http://www.guidewiregroup.com/archives/2006/01/the_disintermed.html http://www.guidewiregroup.com/archives/2006/01/the_disintermed.html HomeMain Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:09:42 -0800 The rise of blogs authored by women, covering women’s issues and presenting a female perspective on events confirms that the Internet gives women a voice. We are beyond the era when email was the killer application and women praised the... http://www.guidewiregroup.com/archives/2006/01/a_blog_of_her_o.html http://www.guidewiregroup.com/archives/2006/01/a_blog_of_her_o.html HomeMain Mon, 09 Jan 2006 12:51:20 -0800 If one ventures into the enterprise software world, the sheer volume of verbiage devoted to variations on the words "service" and "services" is bewildering, especially because a server, which confusingly can be either hardware or software, is unrelated to services.... http://www.guidewiregroup.com/archives/2006/01/how_can_we_esca.html http://www.guidewiregroup.com/archives/2006/01/how_can_we_esca.html HomeMain Thu, 05 Jan 2006 13:17:12 -0800 "In the Web 1.0 era, when a company raised $10 million, they spent $2 million on servers from Sun, another $2 million on software from BEA, another $2 million on Oracle software, and then they'd have only $4 million left... http://www.guidewiregroup.com/archives/2005/12/october_2005_ea.html http://www.guidewiregroup.com/archives/2005/12/october_2005_ea.html HomeMain Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:00:46 -0800 The following headlines were selected from the News.com website on Monday September 26: -Cingular to launch music download service in 2006 -Verizon switches on TV service -Intel launches WiMax trials in Asia -T-Mobile to invest in 3G in U.S. -Google... http://www.guidewiregroup.com/archives/2005/10/early_indicatio_1.html http://www.guidewiregroup.com/archives/2005/10/early_indicatio_1.html HomeMain Mon, 03 Oct 2005 10:54:03 -0800 Twenty-two hours after leaving my driveway, I landed in Spring. New Zealand, in late September – and perhaps anytime -- is a beautiful country, but especially beautiful in the “Garden City,” Christchurch where I am attending and speaking at Electronics... http://www.guidewiregroup.com/archives/2005/09/new_zealand_dia.html http://www.guidewiregroup.com/archives/2005/09/new_zealand_dia.html Practices Fri, 30 Sep 2005 18:47:06 -0800 Twenty-two hours after leaving my driveway, I landed in Spring. New Zealand, in late September – and perhaps anytime -- is a beautiful country, but especially beautiful in the “Garden City,” Christchurch where I am attending and speaking at Electronics... http://www.guidewiregroup.com/archives/2005/09/new_zealand_dia_1.html http://www.guidewiregroup.com/archives/2005/09/new_zealand_dia_1.html Practices Fri, 30 Sep 2005 18:47:06 -0800 As Huricane Katrina made tens of thousands homeless, I had the opportunity to receive first-hand reports from Pam Peterson, a social worker and long-time friend who had gone to Houston to support the evacuees there. Very quickly, she recognized that... http://www.guidewiregroup.com/archives/2005/09/katrinarita_mob.html http://www.guidewiregroup.com/archives/2005/09/katrinarita_mob.html HomeMain Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:35:59 -0800 In the September 5 issue of The New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell explores the efforts by Mattson, a food R&D firm, to design a new cookie. The problem had tight constraints on such factors as fat, shelf stability, and calories. Three... http://www.guidewiregroup.com/archives/2005/09/early_indicatio.html http://www.guidewiregroup.com/archives/2005/09/early_indicatio.html HomeMain Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:47:05 -0800 --Starting your week off with some politics: the Bush administration is objecting to the creation of a .xxx domain, saying it would create a virtual red-light district. Am I missing something here? Wouldn't that be a good thing? Would you... http://www.guidewiregroup.com/archives/2005/08/the_week_in_tec_6.html http://www.guidewiregroup.com/archives/2005/08/the_week_in_tec_6.html HomeMain Tue, 23 Aug 2005 08:21:18 -0800 It’s been a good long while since I posted (breaking all the rules I set for my clients), but in the last three months things have changed. Instead of my PR clients wanting to talk about writing blogs, now everyone... http://www.guidewiregroup.com/archives/2005/08/whats_a_blog_re.html http://www.guidewiregroup.com/archives/2005/08/whats_a_blog_re.html HomeMain Tue, 23 Aug 2005 08:15:14 -0800 --Google's boycott of CNET was the reigning topic last week and still seems to have life left in it. It raises all sorts of interesting questions about corporate PR; as a former PR person myself, I'm astonished at how badly... http://www.guidewiregroup.com/archives/2005/08/the_week_in_tec_5.html http://www.guidewiregroup.com/archives/2005/08/the_week_in_tec_5.html HomeMain Tue, 16 Aug 2005 07:19:14 -0800