Artificial Intelligence Bots Speaking To Each other
Unveiling the “Sixth Sense,” game-changing wearable tech
Pattie Maes demos the Sixth Sense | Video on TED.com
Talks Pattie Maes & Pranav Mistry: Unveiling the “Sixth Sense,” game-changing wearable tech
What I’ve Learned: Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban Interview - Quotes from Mavericks Owner Mark Cuban - Esquire
The guy who has a $50 million golden parachute is thinking, How can I get them to fire me? That fucks up a lot of things when it comes to business.The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face — it’s for him to retire with a smile on his face.
Making the Web Work for Your Small Business
Jacob’s Think Tank: Making the Web Work for Your Small Business
There are tons of resources available that probably only a fraction of small business owners know about.
The power of computers in today’s financial world
You may remember my post here about quantum computing. Now read this article:
Internet Bots: Anatomy of a Stock Selling Frenzy - HotHardware
The Wall Street Journal reports that at about 10:45 a.m. EDT on Monday, September 8, “a headline from the outdated report flashed across Bloomberg screens.” At which point, “algorithmic trading mechanisms, which buy and sell stocks based on news headlines and earnings data,” started selling off the United Airlines stock on the mistaken assumption that the company had just filed for bankruptcy. United’s stock plummeted over the course of the next 15 minutes until NASDAQ halted trading of the stock and United issued a statement saying that the rumors of its recent bankruptcy were greatly exaggerated. The Wall Street Journal adds that “UAL’s stock price ended Tuesday’s session at $10.60, down 2.8% on the day and nearly 13% off Monday’s open.”
Never too late to start a business
Edgelings.com » Starting a Business: It’s Never Too Late
Economic downturns, like the one we are in right now, are the very best times to start new companies. The competition is distracted, talent is readily available, and you’re not doing anything anyway.
Triumph of the idiots
Abstract Generator Factory: Triumph of the Idiots
Intelligent people get squeezed out of organisations, given time. For some reason the combination of intelligence and ladder-climbing almost never co-exists. Senior executives of large companies often get described as being intelligent, but this is just mistaking outward signs of achievement with intelligence. Anyone can make money in a rising market, it’s only those who seem to make a company grow when the odds are against them (e.g. Steve Jobs’ return to Apple) are worthy of praise; the rest were just fortunate to be sitting on a boat in the rising tide.
Evidence of this can be seen in the competition between any large companies, this phenomenon explains why Microsoft can never quite do what Google does. It explained why IBM could never quite catch up with Microsoft. Etc. It’s not that they became too large, or too complacent, it’s because they became too stupid. They are collectively idiots. It’ll happen to Google too, given time.
The downfall of Geosign: a sign of the times
A record $160-million VC investment. A rich Web strategy. A quirky founder. For a few weeks last spring, Guelph, Ont.’s Geosign had it all. Then mighty Google stirred. And it was over
Google getting into the music business (more categories to come)
Today I made a search for artist “Isaac Hayes”. The first result in Google took me to a list of albums, which in turn took me to a page where I could buy the album through three different resellers. All was done through Google corporate looking webpages, within the Google loop. I assume thus that Google is already getting a cut out of music albums…I knew it wouldn’t take long.
This is the real power of search engines, and the real power of affiliate marketing. Imagine what this can do for Google’s coffers in the long term, when they get a commission for every single item we buy online, from wine to jelewery to insurance.
In a way, Google is already becoming the “Walmart” of the web. And as Walmart and others do, it won’t take long before they squeeze the margins of their providers to get maximum profit themselves, because they are the main gateway to consumers. Such is their power.
“Being the main gateway for users towards information: interesting. Becoming the main gateway for consumers towards the products they want to buy online: priceless!”
(Hint for future posts: imagine a future in which not only sposored ads are advertising…but every single search result is also a paid listing. Who could stop Google doing this?)
Mobile Marketing at its best: “World Worst War”
Quicktime video about the campaign
http://www.dandad.org/awards08/qt.asp?entry_id=18031&f=000L&title=World’s%20Worst%20War
Team and images
http://www.dandad.org/awards08/entry.asp?entry_id=18031
- Two things to notice here: this is the result of inter-generational marketing teams working together: real marketing dynamite.
- Some people think that this is typically “weird Japanese” but
would not necessarily work in the West, or not to such an extent…
This is not correct. If the game is adapted for local tastes, providing
content that the user can identify with, engagement should occur in
most countries whose youth population has been exposed to technology
(particularly IM, games, www).
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About Javier Marti
As an independent strategy consultant, futurist, speaker and founder of Trendirama.com Consulting, Javier is dedicated to help organizations, small businesses and individuals to optimize systems, increase profits and make better choices in business and in life. He is the author of the book "Mobile, Domains & The Future"
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