Loved the Valleywag piece on billionaire Cuban’s remarks about the worthless valuation of YouTube. What’s different as the Valleywag piece says is that this dot-com-bubble-time-round is that it’s (social network) bloggers who are taking aim at over-valued social network sites. Nice fit, or plain ‘fitting’ if you prefer a one worder.
Stuart Glendinning Hall
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Only a moron would buy YouTube - aka ‘fitting’
Loved the Valleywag piece on billionaire Cuban’s remarks about the worthless valuation of YouTube. What’s different as the Valleywag piece says is that this dot-com-bubble-time-round is that it’s (social network) bloggers who are taking aim at over-valued social network sites. Nice fit, or plain ‘fitting’ if you prefer a one worder.
Imagine Healthier By Design - innovation in patient safety
Enjoyed the seminar on better hospital design as part of London Design Festival last night. Speakers included Colum Lowe of the National Patient Safety Agency, Professor Roger Coleman of the RCA, author of Design For Patient Safety, and surgeon Henry Marsh who had some great pics of the worst offenders..
Congratulations to Havering Council web team
Congratulations to Havering Council’s web team for their site which has been awarded shortlist status in the 2006 Accountancy Age Awards. (That makes two out of two awards I’ve written getting shortlisted - one for the CV).
I see the online schools admissions and browsealoud accessibility software are both up and running, which is cool too. [...]
Gringoes.com
Like the site for foreigners in Brazil, www.gringoes.com, which I chanced across yesterday. As usual it gives a few interesting outsider insights into Brazilian culture:1. Brazil is very bureaucratic, and hierarchical society.2. Brazil is very people-centred in business.3. You need to speak the language.But then it’s also what you as a person bring to Brazil [...]
Why wikis work
Wikis are better than emails for project management as they provide..context. Funny thing is I had a dream last night in which I had a chat with ex-President Bill Clinton, when I was explaining why local issues are kind of complex. Oops! I’m glad it was only a dream.
Google: chaos by design
Great article on chaos in business as practiced by Google, thanks to Ben Toth’s notebook blog for spotting that. It’s not so far from the story of how VISA was set up, as I wrote previously in a posting on the social use of complexity. What would be more interesting (for me) would be to [...]
How to be a genius in a low status job
So you’re near the bottom of the corporate ladder; use this to your advantage in the following ways: 1. Find out what’s really going on. 2. Look up some clever ideas on what this really means. 3. Figure out how to incorporate these ideas with your own day to day activities. 4. Change the organisation [...]
ROI from blogs used over time within organisations
For an example of significant quantifiable evidence of ROI from blogs used over time within organisations Mark White (which I extracted from Soflow) kindly dug out this resource:http://strange.corante.com/archives/2005/06/13/dark_blogs_case_study_01_a_european_pharmaceutical_group.php