Tag: "TechCrunch"
Got Social Currency?
Carpool.com’s Markus Barnikel argues that, in a digital marketplace, social currency (things like trust, integrity and honesty, etc.) will matter more than in the old face-to-face world: Previously intangible aspects such as trustworthiness and reliability can now be measured and tracked. Although this presents disturbing implications for online privacy – as the recent controversial trend [...]
2011 at a Glance
TechCrunch‘s Andrew Keen interviews futurist Marian Salzman about the “top trends in 2011.” Be warned: even though it doesn’t say so explicitly, the discussion focuses on trends in consumer attitudes & behaviors. (The global financial crisis–which was kind of big news this year–is only mentioned indirectly.) Also, the production values in this video are a [...]
Google Does Global B2B
TechCrunch recently reported on a little publicized initiative of Google: With little fanfare, the company has launched a new service, the “Google Supplier Directory Beta” earlier this month to connect companies with Chinese manufacturers. The service, a part of the AdWords program, lists several Chinese-based firms, their product details, export markets, annual revenue (in RMB), [...]
Start-Up has Better Way to Monitor Social Media Trends
A recent post by at the McKinsey Quarterly asked if firms were ready to build “big data” strategies. One of the problems with “big data” is sifting through the mountains of the stuff while still being able to make sense of it all. According to TechCrunch, a recent start up with the great name “Hybrid [...]
Borders, Bankruptcy and Strategy
Over at TechCrunch, Paul Carr ruminates on the fall of Borders Books (whose original store I used to frequent in Ann Arbor). The problem, he posits, wasn’t that Borders was overwhelmed by Amazon‘s technology and marketing. Rather, it is that they made a weak strategic move: I suspect the death of Borders might actually cause [...]
