Rough Type
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Rough Type is an independent blog written and published by Nicholas Carr. It's mainly about the business and cultural implications of information technology, though it wanders into other areas at times. Nick is a writer, editor, and speaker. He is the author of the book Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage and has written articles for many publications. He was formerly the executive editor of the Harvard Business Review. You'll find a longer bio on his personal site. More » (Source: Rough Type)
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The Omnigoogle
Google's protean appearance is not a reflection of its core business. Rather, it stems from the vast number of complements to its core business. Complements are, to put it ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Reality mining and your cell phone
If you'd like to know why companies like Google are so intent on gaining access to your mobile phone, take a look at the research on "reality mining" that's being undertaken ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Skype and the hedge fund problem
Hedge funds work on a simple wisdom-of-the-crowd principle: Because they involve an extremely large number of transactions, which smooths out the vagaries of individual ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Amazon re-prices S3
For any utility, profitability hinges on using your capital assets - your installed capacity - as efficiently as possible, and the way you do that is through sophisticated ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Citi whacks IT
In yet another sign of the vast amount of waste inherent in big-company IT operations, Citigroup announced this morning that the continued rationalization of its IT assets and ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Are CIOs "dead weight"?
n my commentary on the latest Financial Times Digital Business podcast, I look at Chris Anderson's charge that chief information officers are turning into "dead weight." In ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Is a "neutral" net anticompetitive?
The "net neutrality" debate is a complicated one (witness Google's recent twists and turns). Take the very important issue of competition. On the surface, it would seem that ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
IT, YouTube and the wealth gap
Hurley and Chen came by their windfall fair and square. They built a better mousetrap. But there's a bigger picture here, too. It's worth keeping the YouTube phenomenon in ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Google's machine
After years of taking a fairly laissez-faire attitude toward googlebombing, Google has now taken action to stop the practice. It has incorporated into its search engine a ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Pay-per-view journalism
Pay-per-view journalism is inevitable. It simply brings the compensation model in line with the content model. Online publishing breaks the old bundled-content model of print ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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Cloud may squeeze margins, says Microsoft exec
The shift from software licenses to software subscriptions is likely to squeeze Microsoft's profit margins in its business division, says Capossela, though he expects it will ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Gilligan's web
I think we'd all agree that the Web is changing the structure of media, and that's going to have many important ramifications. Some will be good, and some will be bad, and the ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Googleopoly
Google is not only the dominant player in the ad-serving market (and would see its dominance expand greatly by adding DoubleClick's dominant banner-ad business), but is also ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Knockoffs roil Second Life
The commercialization of Second Life has hit a speed bump. A new software program, called CopyBot, allows residents of the virtual world to make exact copies of other ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
More blogs, less weight
Just two years ago, in October 2004, blogs accounted for 16 of Technorati's 35 most influential and authoritative media sites. They represented, in other words, 45% of the ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Welcome back to frugal computing
Led by web-computing giants like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Ask.com, companies are dumping billions of dollars of capital into constructing utility-class computing ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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