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]]>I do think this is a great advertising campaign, if the branding fools don't destroy it (by placing too many Microsoft (yawn) pitches in the margins, for example).
Watch the first show below. Jack jumps in and "surfaces" a few issues at Connect by Hertz - a new car-sharing venture. In a way, the fact that Jack pulls these issues out in 5 minutes sorta tells us how out of it Hertz is.
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After watching this I get the feeling they don't understand VG's Box1-2-3 strategy for innovation. In fact, they are most likely going to fail. After 30 days, the CEO has still NOT created a global business unit for Griff. Not good. No follow through on commitments.
One more thing. Why doesn't Microsoft bring Jack and Suzy into Microsoft for a few days? They could wake the sleepyheads real fast. Stop one: The Automotive group!
Also, I'd like to see Obama send Jack and Suzy into GM for six weeks. That would sure be a reality show worth watching.
BTW: A quick ecosystem analysis shows that Zipcar is beating them hands down. Rankings: almost 600,000 for Connect by Hertz and 22,000 by Zipcar.
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]]>Finally, the real value of Twitter revealed>>
“We’ve been struck by the amount of video and eyewitness testimony,” said Jon Williams, the BBC world news editor. “The days when regimes can control the flow of information are over.”
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]]>The question: is this going to be another Tiananmen Square? Or is there hope for a middle-eastern Wenceslas Square?
Ahmadinejad, you have lost the election and your soul.
]]>And it's good to know that the AMA is a crooked organization as well. What did you expect? Medicine is a for-profit business. Anything else is socialism... right?
]]>Madness = an 88-year-old white supremacist.
Who is to blame? The NRA? The schools? Parents? Republican extremism? FOX News? The Neo-Nazis? Operation Rescue?
Hate closes down the world.. And hate speech begets hate-filled actions.
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Tragic blindness.
Max Blumenthal says about his video:
I hope those who have watched it, especially those predisposed to dismiss it as anti-Israel propaganda or shock video with “no news value,” will at least ask how vitriolic levels of racism are able to flow through the streets of Jerusalem like sewage, why the grandsons of Holocaust survivors feel compelled to offer the Shoah as justification to behave like fascist street thugs, and how the sons and daughters of successful Jewish American families casually merged Zionist cant with crude white supremacism. The willful avoidance of these painful questions by self-proclaimed supporters of Israel is setting the stage for the complete delegitimization of the country they claim to love. As Obama said, “any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail. So whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners of it.”
And on top of this we have morons like Rupert Murdoch.
On the other side, we have the moving story of Josh Lipsky and his trip to Buchenwald.
I see how easy it is to use hate to unite people - the Christian fundamentalists, white supremacists, Jewish settlers, Zionists, Hamas, Taliban, Al-Qaeda - flip sides of the currency of terror.
The world is not against you, Israel. You are against you.
Hat-tips to Dera and Steven for sending me these stories.
]]>Maybe stealing is at the core of the GOP brand DNA?
]]>Bing is better than Google. There, I said it.
Type in "Godot" and see what I mean.
Wolfram Alpha, on the other hand, is a disaster. The less said, the better.
I can't give up on Google, so for now, my new search engine is GooBing!
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Never, never, never, never. Never will we forget this anonymous hero.
When China does get democracy one day, they will build a statue for him at the very spot in Tiananmen Square.
]]>Companies that build a vision around the future and then work to make that future a reality using their business ecosystems will win the next round of competition after we emerge from the recession. Intel's shaping strategy, as my friend John Hagel would call it, is nothing short of brilliant.
Let's see why.
In the automobile "infotainment" world, Intel has been quietly working with Wind River and BMW (and others) to build a shared platform for devices based on open source standards. The ecosystem partners comprise the Genivi Alliance and are in competition with another, smaller ecosystem of partners driven by Microsoft. The difference is that Microsoft's infotainment stack is not open. Ford's Sync and Fiat's Blue & Me products are based on this competing platform. (How long before they switch?)
The ultimate irony - both platforms are built on Intel. And in this case, Intel knows something that Microsoft doesn't - that open systems are the future.
The Wind River platform is not limited to automobiles. They're doing the same across a variety of marketspaces, like the Open Handset Alliance Android - another open source platform.
The Wind River acquisition also helps include "Intel Inside" on all the devices which cloud computing will bring. Intel is making sure that the Telcos, IT hosting providers, hardware and software vendors - everyone gets to use Intel as the foundation of their future business.
Shaping Strategy 101: Intel gets it.
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