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Last Entries on Dec 10, 2005
As we near the end of the year, I realized that it's been about half a decade since the bubble burst on the dotcom world. At the same time, it seems that a number of similar bubble signs may be showing up again. Based on my personal experience, I'd like to present what I consider the top five signs of a bubble being in place. Some may overlap but I've tried to define some generic rules that can be applied to all bubbles, not just the ones in technology.
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As a member of both the New York Library and Creative Commons, I received a lot of advance notice about this week's discussion entitled "The Battle Over Books: Authors & Publishers Take on the Google Print Library Project". And, thanks to Larry Lessig, I got a chance to be in the audience during this match-up which forced me to reshape my thinking about Google, about Web 2.0, and about copyright regimes.
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Every time Google comes out with a new product, many people talk about how great it is and highlight the product as a category killer. However, it increasingly appears to me that Google is filling up holes in their offering, in an attempt to match its competitors. Based on that assumption, I started wondering if Google had any product that was truly unique. To do so, I started a chart that mapped Google offerings against its competitors. For the purpose of this analysis, I decided that Google's main competitors were Microsoft, Yahoo!, and AOL.
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Well, it's time to help TNL.net get a little more notice. Techweb has announced the Blog-X award and I need your help in getting this blog there. Please nominate the TNL.net weblog It doesn't take that long and it has the potential of getting a whole bunch of new people exposed to it.
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Metrics weeks continues with a review of how to weight metrics. So far, I've looked into who, in a company could benefit from metrics. I then delved into two different types of metrics: hard metrics, which can easily be measured, and soft metrics, which cannot. Today, I'm going to try to figure out how this all weights out.
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