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Archives for February, 2009


Don’t Google "Bushfire"

by Brian Prentice  |  February 18, 2009  |  Comments Off

I only just ran across this but last week David Braue reported that the Victorian government here in Australia denied Google access to data they were hoping to use to create a bushfire map mashup. Instead Google has relied on information provided by the Country Fire Authority on fires burning on private lands to create [...]

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Category: The Future of Ownership - IP & IT Industry     Tags:

The Risk of Function Point Business Models

by Brian Prentice  |  February 5, 2009  |  Comments Off

My colleague Tom Austin, in his post Applications for a buck…or even less, explores the potential impact of cloud computing on traditional software business models. In considering Microsoft’s recent patent application for a metered pay-as-you-go computing experience Tom says: “Microsoft’s patent application describes how it could sell software functions to users – they need not [...]

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Category: Cool Ideas & Those That Have Them The Future of Ownership - IP & IT Industry     Tags:

It’s The Business Model, Stupid!

by Brian Prentice  |  February 5, 2009  |  Comments Off

The media’s obsession with layoff tallies is starting to remind me of the body count reports from the Vietnam War. But I just read an article “Half -a-Million Job Cuts: Is There a Strategy Behind the Layoffs” on Knowledge@Wharton that reminded me that there is another angle to these layoffs. As it points out: …for [...]

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Category: Trawling for Trends     Tags: