Those Terrible Telcos: America’s Internet Shame

France now puts America to shame in online competitiveness and capability. We are the poor man of Internet capability, and China is planning to pass us. Thanks to the telcos, and the government. Read all about it…

schmupgrade

Microsoft’s new operating system Vista would suck if the company were seriously trying to introduce an innovative product. But it knows better. All Microsoft is doing today is holding markets in place as it quietly continues its vast reinvention of itself. It will become a company half in the cloud and half on the ground.

Business and Entertainment Mashups

From David Berlind’s Mashup Camp we’re featuring two great mashups - one is a useful business app tied to Salesforce.com’s database, and the other is chime.tv, a beautiful interface with collections of video content from a variety of sources - including your own - all in one player. Take a look…

Customer Reviews

Customer reviews are priceless - who could doubt it? Even if they’re bad they allow the wide-awake executive to respond and adapt, or at least be informed; after all we’re not in charge of our reputation, other people are. Here are a couple of interesting items in this area…

Mashups for the Business Crowd

Here’s a mashup we like. If you own 25,000 kilometers of fibre network running through twelve European countries, obviously you’ll mash up the AutoCad design data with the GPS grid (tricky), and then you’re ready to expose it through a map display system like Google Earth (easy).

Us Chickens and Those Telcos

Cringely touches a nerve common to us all this week talking about those telcos and their prices, and their lousy bandwidth (and don’t even ask about service).

Ten years ago, the United States had the fastest and cheapest residential Internet service in the world. Today U.S. residential Internet service, especially broadband, is among the slowest and […]

Forrester Shows How Retailers Succeed With YouTube

Forrester illustrates how one retailer is succeeding handsomely with YouTube. Hunter says all the doubt about social media is the same old lack of knowledge of how to play it. It was the same thing with the early days of advertising on the Web, and every innovation online. But if you don’t play you can’t win.

Hunter and Associates: Stories We Noticed 2007-07-17

Three stories about FREE as not just a marketing ploy but a complete business model, with ROI built in for those who understand the network effect

Hunter and Associates: Stories We Noticed 2007-07-13

Cool thinker James Cherkoff points out that our personal data might actually be worth something (and here we are throwing it away for others to profit from) ~~~ and maybe, he says, VRM is one of the answers

Web 2.0 Brings Shopping 3.0 and Just Forget Jupiter Research On This One

Jupiter Research is warning online retailers away from social networking sites, because there’s no profit there. But even as this headline spreads across the Web, Hunter and Associates fearlessly reveals that, in reality, most merchants just don’t know how to treat their customers right anyway, and Web 2.0 will reveal this in fierce daylight.

Meanwhile, those who understand how to play it are changing the retail world forever…

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