Business 2.0 published an interesting article which profiles 25 internet companies “whose approaches help illuminate where the Web is headed and where the opportunities lie”.
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Any organisation, including open source communities like Linux, can only become what they want to become. Linux, or one of its distributions, would have to truly want to adopt marketing as a business function and understand other customer segments to move beyond its narrow technology person niche.
Read More26 May 2006 Category: Free software and Open source 1 Comment 
I recently read a series of articles by Paul B. Farrell at Marketwatch.com . I will extract a paragraph from each article to encourage you to read them. “The Planet of the Apes is a perfect metaphor for the way America’s 95 million investors are being psychologically manipulated and controlled by a small cartel of less than one million people in and around Wall Street. For both that 95 million and the one million the stakes are huge, because $8.6 trillion is invested in mutual funds alone.” “Research from critics like Vanguard’s Jack Bogle have longed warn that Wall Street and the financial-services industry are “skimming” one-third off the top of investors returns, substantially reducing your retirement assets. Some critics like Boston research firm Dalbar go further: Most investors make less than inflation, but are clueless because they’re brainwashed to think otherwise.”
Read MoreCould an online social network undertake investment analysis. Perhaps, a company or freelancer could prepare an equity research report. This report could serve as the foundation for analysis by an online social report in the same way that just occured on Digg. The tools could be extended further to include Wiki’s so that the report could also be prepared by the community using an open source approach.
Read More23 May 2006 Category: Equity Market 3.0, Web 1.0 proprietary hierarchies vs. Web 3.0 community networks No Comments
For the year ending March 2006, the number of companies listed on the NYSE and NASDAQ fell 3.1% and 0.9% respectively. Could the decline in their home markets have inspired these major exchanges to acquire or merge? A combined NASDAQ / London Stock Exchange represents 15% of the number of global listed companies and 14.7% of global market capitalisation. A combined NYSE / Euronext represents 8.5% of the number of global listed companies and 25.7% of global market capitalisation.
Read More22 May 2006 Category: Stock exchanges 1.0 No Comments
During the period ending 31st March 2006, the market capitalisation of stock exchanges in the America’s, Asia Pacific and Europe grew 15.3%, 36.2% and 23.3% resepctively. This was driven by increasing valuations of listed companies, but was also influenced by changes in the number of companies. There were changes in the number of companies:- The America’s decreased 0.5%, Asia Pacific increased 2.5% and Europe increased 3.5%. Despite strong equity markets, there was a decline in the number of companies listed in key markets and specific exchanges that implemented niche strategies experienced growth.
Read MoreLinux will become a viable alternative to the Microsoft Windows desktop software. Over the last few years, there have been many articles that Linux may reach a Tipping Point . The Tipping Point for Linux means it will move from being used by a niche group to being commonly used. I believe the Tipping point will occur in the next two years. Individuals will use Linux on the desktop. Any remaining inhibitors or features required by everyday users should be implemented in Linux in the next year. This includes support for more devices allowing synchronisation with mobile phones. Business will increasingly use Linux for mail and web servers and replace their existing Microsoft Exchange mail servers
Read More15 May 2006 Category: Central Brain assembly, Free software and Open source 3 Comments
On the 1st April 2006, the World Bank released a policy paper titled "Promoting access to primary equity markets : a legal and regulatory approach". The report is available from here. "Abstract: This paper examines legal and regulatory measures that can be taken to promote access to the primary market in emerging market economies. While capital market development depends on many factors including, primarily, a favorable macroeconomic environment, an appropriately designed and effective legal and regulatory framework can help to encourage market growth and to increase access to finance for all companies, including small- and medium-sized enterprises. In this paper we identify the basic necessities that underpin a regulatory regime that ... Read More
Software licenses are contracts. The terms of that contract are determined by parties to the contract. The terms “free software” and “open source” are terms which refer to software license contracts that have specific attributes. Software licenses are contracts. The terms of that contract are determined by parties to the contract. The terms “free software” and “open source” are terms which refer to software license contracts that have specific attributes. These terms are defined, but are often used to portray licenses that do not comply with these definitions.
Read More13 May 2006 Category: Free software and Open source No Comments
With high broadband penetration to empower consumers, open software to empower entrepreneurs, we may be on the verge of the .NET technology boom. The .NET technology boom is likely to be different from the .COM boom. Investment capital is likely to be allocated more efficiently and less investment capital will achieve quality outcomes.
Read More“Power will shift from the traders who have benefited from merely facilitating transactions to the buyers and sellers who take positions on either end of the trade, and that which is most highly prized in financial markets – the ability to create value – is likely to experience a renaissance as transformational as anything the industry has ever witnessed.” – IBM report. The opportunity for online social networks in financial markets is becoming clear.
Read More17 April 2006 Category: Boom then depression by 2012, Capital allocation and remote services, Economic development, Equity Market 3.0, Private equity and venture capital, Specialist financial centres, Stock exchanges 1.0, Web 1.0 Intellectual property vs. Web 3.0 Community knowledge, Web 1.0 proprietary hierarchies vs. Web 3.0 community networks 2 Comments
Online social networks will drive a significant lift in productivity over the next decade. The internet will be essential to coordinating these networks. Online social networks are likely to be more efficient at manufacturing and distributing information. Consumers may be offered more convenient means to purchase, at lower cost using open source philosophies that may deliver greater customer satisfaction. Government can allow people to benefit from economic development, although some industries may perish or need to evolve in the short term.
Read More8 April 2006 Category: A Personal Central Brain, Boom then depression by 2012, Central Brain assembly, Central Brain building blocks, Critical path to Web 4.0, Digital Ecosystems, Economic development, Equity Market 3.0, Free software and Open source, Human awareness and development, Industry collaboration (Central Brain), Web 1.0 proprietary hierarchies vs. Web 3.0 community networks 2 Comments
Existing industries have billions of dollars of historical investment, hundreds of years of history and employ of tens of thousands of people. These industries are being challenged by more innovative players that apply new business models to reduce costs. Challenges to the introduction of the railroad included “Rail travel at high speed is not possible, because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.” This article offers a brief insight into the emerging responses of industry and their efforts to lobby government. Will government “asphyxiate” the people on the information superhighway? Will we be forced to travel by canal? Will we be forced to use the telephone?
Read MoreMoore’s Law is forecast to continue. If the rate of improvement continues, technology will be 128 times more powerful in ten years, and over 4,000 times more powerful in 15 years. Will it be possible for a single laptop capture, store, process and transmit information for entire industries? Could a single laptop replace the global music industry, a stock exchange or provide voice calls for the world? There are billions of dollars of historical investment, hundreds of years of history and tens of thousands of people being challenged by new companies. Starbucks may have enough bandwidth to run a bank, but you probably would not want to live there 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
Read More25 March 2006 Category: A Personal Central Brain, Capital allocation and remote services, Central Brain assembly, Central Brain building blocks, Economic development, Equity Market 3.0, Free software and Open source, Industry collaboration (Central Brain), Web 1.0 Intellectual property vs. Web 3.0 Community knowledge, Web 1.0 proprietary hierarchies vs. Web 3.0 community networks No Comments
The McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) examined the financial assets of more than 100 countries since 1980. The result is a comprehensive profile of the global capital market (GCM) and an in-depth analysis of its evolution across geographies and asset classes.
Read More“Shares in the London Stock Exchange (LSE) have jumped by 30% on Monday following speculation of a bid war.” Consolidation in this market is an inevitable consequence of the compeitive pressure from competing electronic networks which utilise lower cost technologies. The fundamental function of the stock exchange – matching buyers and sellers of shares – is not as lucrative as it was twenty years ago. “In the New Reality a complete minnow of a stock exchange will grow to be a world player.” A merger between the LSE and NYSE would produce a dominant exchange, but can it compete with the inevitable compeititon from the internet?
Read More14 March 2006 Category: Stock exchanges 1.0 1 Comment
The Linux desktop is important because it empowers the user with the key internet technologies that will transform many industries. The availability of a version of Linux that can work for every person every time will become a reality in the next year. Usability of Linux is no longer an issue – it works just like Windows. At the moment, the best versions of desktop Linux probably install successfully 90% of the time, satisfies the needs of 90% of users and will work with 90% of peripherals that you attach to your computer. These are symbolic and not actual figures.
Read More2 March 2006 Category: Central Brain assembly, Central Brain building blocks, Free software and Open source 2 Comments
The Government of Malta has announced framework discussions with Tecom Investments of Dubai on the setting up a new ‘SmartCity@Malta’. The Government of Malta has agreed to invest the land into the project whilst Tecom is expected to undertake an investment of approximately US$300 million over the coming 8 years. The first deliverables from this project are expected by 2008. This is a very exciting development. It may establish a cluster of IT companies in the EU, just like Dubai Internet City has done for the Middle East. It is also a visible sign to Middle East economies to establish new sectors and reduce their dependence on dwindling oil reserves.
Read More25 February 2006 Category: Economic development, Specialist financial centres No Comments
Hello! My name is Helena Marie. I got here on Monday at 6.58am. It was a bit of a surprise I wasn’t due here for another two weeks.
Read MoreThe Open Source model of building software harnesses the collective knowledge of a group of volunteers to build complex software. Over the next few years, collective knowledge networks like the open source movement will move beyond developing open source software, to manufacturing and distributing products products and services in other industries.
Read More13 February 2006 Category: Capital allocation and remote services, Climate stability 4.0, Critical path to Web 4.0, Declining markets, Democracy 3.0 and global governance 4.0, Digital Ecosystems, Economic development, Equity Market 3.0, Free software and Open source, Peak oil water food resources and leadership, Web 1.0 Intellectual property vs. Web 3.0 Community knowledge, Web 1.0 proprietary hierarchies vs. Web 3.0 community networks No Comments
Offshore financial centres had a reputation for being havens of criminal activity. The following five year old articles show this reputation is undeserved.They suggest that the “persecution of tax havens is not the fight against money laundering but the fight against low taxes”. The persecution of “tax havens” was simply an instrument of the nation state to protect domestic tax revenues from foreign tax competition.
Today, the majority of financial centres are well regulated and well respected. The also offer companies and investors the opportunity to reduce compliance costs and take advantage of countries dedicated to servicing their needs. Some countries are focussed on attracting a specific type of company. They enact legislation that is necessary to provide a respectable base for specific types of business. For example, the Isle of Man is focussed upon attracting EBusiness. These smaller financial centres are likely to be significant beneficiaries of the globalisation of financial markets. Business owners and entrepreneurs may choose to incorporate in these centres and derive significant benefits. They will need to pay taxes on any foreign income they derive or is attributed to them by their tax laws. The majority of financial centres are havens for business, rather than a means to reduce taxes.
Read More21 January 2006 Category: Capital allocation and remote services, Central Brain assembly, Central Brain building blocks, Climate stability 4.0, Critical path to Web 4.0, Declining markets, Democracy 3.0 and global governance 4.0, Equity Market 3.0, Peak oil water food resources and leadership, Private equity and venture capital, Specialist financial centres, Stock exchanges 1.0, Web 1.0 Intellectual property vs. Web 3.0 Community knowledge No Comments
The primary function of our political leadership is to safeguard the essentials of our community – our global community. There is action that can be taken on key issues of oil, food, water, climate change, national insolvency and retirement of the baby boomers. There is just enough time for action. The resources are available for most of the pressing issues. However, precious public funds are spent on more interesting ambitions, rather than the fundamentals. If questioned, more complex issues are introduced to defer the need to make difficult, but simple, decisions. The world confronts key challenges. Action on fundamental issues seem to be perpetually deferred until after the next election. Ambitions receive priority. The demand for leadership is growing rapidly. The supply of leadership is in declining. Perhaps, the law of diminishing returns applies to our political leadership.
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RSS empowers the user. Email subscriptions are delivered at random times via email and each piece of information is mixed with other email. Email newsletters simply get lost. RSS feeds may be reviewed at your convenience in a simple layout. Sophisticated users now expect that web sites will provide RSS feeds. This is likely to be true of the ordinary users as time passes.
Read More15 January 2006 Category: Uncategorized No Comments
Author HS Dent provides an update on the status of the potential technology boom through to 2010.
Read More17 November 2005 Category: Boom then depression by 2012, Economic development, Web 1.0 proprietary hierarchies vs. Web 3.0 community networks 1 Comment
Author Harry S Dent suggests “Large and small cap growth stocks, especially technology, are going to take the stage again and lead the next bubble driven by the second stage, or maturity boom, of the S-Curve technology cycle in Internet, wireless, broadband and digital devices. “
Read More1 October 2005 Category: Boom then depression by 2012, Economic development, Web 1.0 proprietary hierarchies vs. Web 3.0 community networks 1 Comment
I am sure that you have heard about the acqusition of Skype by EBay. There is extensive commentary on the internet and I do not plan to reproduce that content here. I would like to highlight the valuation paid for this company. Is this the start of a technology boom?
Read More20 September 2005 Category: Boom then depression by 2012, Economic development, Web 1.0 proprietary hierarchies vs. Web 3.0 community networks No Comments
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