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In Praise of Ecosystems
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By economic ecosystem, I refer to a set of companies, cooperating and competing at once, that together deliver a product or service by providing different components that share some critical capabilities.
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Throughout industrial history, open standards have enriched customers and fueled productivity.
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Ask yourself: Can we create an ecosystem of innovation that will expand our market? How can we make it easier for others to add innovations that will make our product or service more valuable to more customers?
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Why don't more companies launch ecosystems? Because doing so requires faith that the market is a better judge of innovation than any one company -- and that doesn't jibe with command-and-control management.
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An ecosystem beats a product because its collective of competitors can explore and invest in many more ideas than any single company can muster.
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The product is "open."
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Harga-blog » The iPod Ecosystem
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by focusing first on the consumer experience but then, second, on the entire set of related products and services that bring value to that experience
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Don Norman's jnd.org / Ad-Hoc Personas & Empathetic Focus
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an understanding of and identification with the user population
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Rather it is having a clear image of what the product is meant to be -- and what it is not meant to be -- and rejecting features that do not fit, only accepting ones that do.
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Personas helps standardize the approach
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Personas makes it easier to be human-centered.
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The online book: team authors, and it's never finished | csmonitor.com
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"The skills of an editor are not going to become unimportant; it's just that it is possible that the few hundred editors that work in publishing in New York City may not be the only people who have really good opinions about what's worthwhile in the world,"
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"When people are using collaborative tools, they will naturally collaborate to a more neutral, less personal point of view,"
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Strategy Letter I: Ben and Jerry's vs. Amazon - Joel on Software
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If you want to sell your old Patek Philippe watch, you're going to get a better price on eBay, because there are more buyers there. If you want to buy a Patek Philippe watch, you're going to look on eBay, because there are more sellers there.
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People don't want to switch word processors if their old files can't be read by the new word processor.
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all tugging in different directions.
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"Lock-in" is where there is something about the business that makes people not want to switch.
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A "network effect" is a situation where the more customers you have, the more customers you will get
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If you don't have any real competition, like Amazon, there is a chance that you can succeed at a "land grab", that is, get as many customers as quickly as possible, so that later competitors will have a serious barrier to entry.
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What VCs love about Skype, MySpace, and Flickr - October 1, 2006
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Freemium works because "you reduce the main stumbling blocks of product adoption," Rimer says. "Web-based users who don't have to pay for it will often start evangelizing the benefits to others."
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When the service is free, word spreads
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free didn't become a serious option until the Internet gave us low-cost online distribution.
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Business Models on the Web | Professor Michael Rappa
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a business model is the method of doing business by which a company can sustain itself -- that is, generate revenue. The business model spells-out how a company makes money by specifying where it is positioned in the value chain.
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Looking for a Gambit to Win at Google’s Game - New York Times
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“You don’t win in the first 90 percent; it just gets you in the game,” he said. “What matters to people is emotional attachment. And I think that’s the last 10 percent.”
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“what Google does better than anyone is getting the basics right.”
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“Microsoft has a really slow cycle speed,”
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Reflecting the many conflicting strategies, Microsoft’s Internet unit has been slowed by the same sort of organizational drag that caused the latest upgrade of Windows to fall years behind schedule.
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the staff was hampered by conflicting priorities and overlapping organizations
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Looking for a Gambit to Win at Google’s Game - New York Times
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Once traditional software is complemented by services delivered online
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Microsoft lost its way, Mr. Berkowitz says, because it became too enamored with software wizardry
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Marginal utility - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tom2oc's TA World
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GPN, I continue to like the TA setup and was strong today in the market dive.
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But looking at the bigger picture on the weekly below, I feel that it might bounce seeing that we are past a kiss event.
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buyers' remorse selling
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AAPL was very volatile ahead of the showman's show tomorrow. Action of today is irrelevant but today will be very meaningful as we might see the start of another leg up to all high time high or the start of a trend reversal.
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since the market went up on rising energy costs for the last 3 years it will most probably go down with it.
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The big test of 73.80 resistance is just above though so we might expect some backing and filling under that level before it decides to go over it or turn south again.
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Since it was trending down I shorted the knee jerk counter trend as I usually do with OIH on the Wednesdays.
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9/1 TIE 27.63 called cooked on a triangle breakout, target 35. UPDATE 9/8: 26.57 Pulled back to kiss triangle goodbye. Excellent nice opp on a bounce. STATUS: COOKED, stop 24.90.
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NYSE COMP DJ30 OEX NDX SMH SP500 EEM all broke the rising wedges I've been posting about for days warning that this pattern was bearish despite the rally going on.
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above 12 is bullish for volatility and bearish for equities
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Again, the market went up on higher oil for the last 3 years so it would be normal to see it go down with oil.
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SOX closed down 1% and was holding tech all day.
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COMP has been trending higher and BKX trending lower.
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SPECIAL EDITION: Habit 5 is Trade Risk Management: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
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what your system tells you and what reality (the market) tells you
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Trade Risk Management
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Deal yourself a new hand of credit cards - Yahoo! News
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- great article about 0% APR on balance transfers and purchasespost by slacker on 2006-10-24
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With rewards programs changing almost daily, it pays to
load up on plastic and be strategic about how you use it.
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Critical Chain Project Management
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Take away the idea of time allowed, and you've got half the battle won.
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the increasingly important need for speed in project delivery and the equally important need for reliability in delivering the project as promised
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avoids major impact of Parkinson's Law at the task level while accounting for Murphy's Law at the project level.
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Uncertainty is why we need project management. How we manage for uncertainty is at the core of improvement of project performance -- getting projects done both faster and with better reliability of the promised deliverable dates.
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Jon Johansen hacks FairPlay, the Apple iTunes closed system: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
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If you want to be specific - and for legal reasons, he does - Johansen has reverse-engineered FairPlay, the encryption technology Apple uses to make the iPod a closed system.
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Nuxeo Blogs: Triage of bugs in an open-source world.
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But triage is not prioritizing, it's resource allocation.
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In computers then, it becomes a system of allocating programming time to bugs, when there are not enough programmers to fix all the bugs.
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Alex Kipman - Inside a MS Build Bug Triage meeting
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Here the Channel 9 team was invited to sit inside a bug triage meeting.
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Ned Batchelder: Painless Bug Triaging
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It is necessary to discuss the
details of the bug, for instance to determine how severe it is, or to
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Assuming this really is a bug, when do we want it fixed?
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The triage team doesn't have to decide if bugs are really bugs.
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It's the simple but treacherous process of deciding what bugs should
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Bug Tracking Guidelines
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Avoid using a committee or meeting to triage bugs reports.
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When applicable, build numbers should be used to specify what version of
software a bug was found in, what version it was fixed in, and what version a fix was
verified in.
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Coding Horror: Not All Bugs Are Worth Fixing
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how do you distinguish between bugs that users are likely to encounter, and bugs that users will probably never see?
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