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HAMBURG - Das Online-Netzwerk Xing AG (WKN: XNG888) muss sich auf die Suche nach einem neuen Vorstandsmitglied machen. Finanzvorstand Eoghan Jennings... (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider
Fortune has a long recap of Facebook's story so far -- lots of rehash.They did, however, put together a fantastic infographic illustrating Facebook's remarkable growth.Founded in 2004, Facebook just reached 175 million active users.Did you know it took the telephone 89 years and the TV 38 years to reach 150 million? Yeesh. (Read More)
: it is an impressive stat. Has anyone compared facebook to myspace or twitter.. The speed at which new technologies etc are being picked up is evolving at a whole new pace - we will look back in 3 years and wonder why facebook didnt take off quicker...
readwriteweb
Why is the Enterprise 2.0 market not taking off more strongly? The reason has to do partly with ill-conceived pricing structures: volume-discount (VD) schemes. Fix them, and you fix one of the obstacles preventing the market from expanding rapidly. And by fixing them is meant reversing them, in particular by using volume-in (Read More)
: "If customers extract more value (higher returns) per user as the number of users increases, yet pay an ever-decreasing price per user (which is VD pricing), value and price have diverged. And this divergence is shaping the Enterprise 2.0 market. Let's look at the consequences."
: Right, just because it has the "2.0" badge slapped on to it, somehow it should be able to charge differently.
The core contention itself is bogus, because every product, adopted across the enterprise, results in greater value for the enterprise. It is not limited only the 2.0 breed of products.
Mashable!
Feed Chronicle is a new site that lets you transform those RSS feeds into your very own online newspaper. It’s simple to use and setup. Just create an account, select the feeds (from drop-down menus) you want for each newspaper-like section, and the final result is your very own online newspaper.The site itself is pre (Read More)
New York Times
It was a terrible year.
The entire global financial system almost collapsed, the takeover market shrank by a third as the credit markets dried up, the stock market had one of its worst years in history, and a series of legendary financial institutions disappeared. To top it off, Bernie Madoff (and whomever else it is [...]. (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
Google confirms a Reader API is perhaps only a month away from a public release.Web technologist and blogger Niall Kennedy, recently posted on his site several details surrounding the previously undocumented Google Reader API. Although not official at this point, Kennedy has received confirmation from Google that his docume (Read More)
TwitLinks
A case study for the Freemium business model
There’s been a lot written about the Freemium model over the years, particularly from Fred Wilson at AVC. Here’a couple articles I’ll recommend on the topic:. (Read More)