Published March 28th, 2007
in Web 2.0 and Business.
Times are good in London. The weather is finally getting better after a quite cold start of the year. The economy in London as one of the world’s leading financial centres is not too bad either. This can be illustrated by all the brand new Ferraris quite annoyingly passing by my home just outside the Square Mile. The Economist launched the Big Mac index in 1980s, perhaps its time to abolish the burgers and introduce the Italian sports cars. When a young banker is driving home in his extremely expensive car before 6pm on a Monday; you know times are good.
The management team at Google, the search giant, is perhaps not as cheerful and pleased as the workers in the Square Mile. YouTube, one of Google’s main acquisitions last year, is facing quite a lot of trouble. Viacom, a media company, has announced that it is going to sue Google and YouTube for copyright infringement.
Continue reading ‘Google’s headache’
Published March 22nd, 2007
in Web 2.0 and Business.
The Mckinsey Quarterly, the McKinsey & Company’s print and online publication, published a survey in March 2007 regarding how businesses use Web 2.0, a phrase that refers to the second generation of web-based technologies and services such as social networking sites and communication tools. Popular websites such as MySpace, FaceBook, YouTube and Wikipedia can all be classified as sites based upon the Web 2.0 concept.
The survey was conducted in January 2007 and is based upon 2,847 responses from executives world-wide.
Continue reading ‘The future looks bright for Web 2.0′
Published March 18th, 2007
in Politics and the Internet.
I am officially launching my new place on the web and my first blog by addressing one of next year’s biggest and perhaps most important events, the US election. Dagens Industri, a Swedish business newspaper, published an article in February 2007 regarding the Internet’s importance for the upcoming election. The article raised several points regarding candidates’ use of the Internet as a communication channel.
It is today possible for American citizens to stay informed about the presidential race at higher level than ever before. The same apply for us Europeans. Everyone with Internet access are just a couple of clicks from a candidate’s or a party’s manifesto. Candidates are today using the Internet to find contributors, share and receive information.
Continue reading ‘The Presidential Election of 2008′
