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- Number 10’s site highlights what is social, and what is not
The trouble faced by the new Number 10 website is that Gordon Brown, and government itself, isn’t very webby. Without tackling that, Web 2.0 approaches will fail
- Where we find the time
Clay Shirky has produced the perfect summary of why life’s so hard for media companies used to being only OK
- Clinton campaign may be in more trouble than it knows
From today’s coverage:
“Clinton’s strategist, Mark Penn, tried to downplay the importance of momentum. ‘Winning Democratic primaries is not a qualification for who can win the general election,’ he told reporters.”
Umm… no, but it is the only qualification for those Democrats who want to have a go at the general election.
Sometimes, it’s true, strategists can be [...]
- Good grief, Yahoo
I do hope Yahoo’s beleaguered top brass didn’t spend all weekend thinking up this defense strategy.
“Yahoo Inc would consider a business alliance with Google Inc as one way to rebuff a $44.6 billion takeover proposal by Microsoft, a source familiar with Yahoo’s strategy said on Sunday.”
You’re supposed to be in competition with them, no? Indeed, [...]
- Yahoo + Microsoft: it can’t be about innovation, either
I blogged about the Yahoo/Microsoft deal on Friday at Comment is free, so won’t go back over what I said there, except to say there are lots of reasons why this is a bad idea.
Charles Arthur, on Newsnight that day, also made good points* about (i) Microsoft using up all its cash pile – and [...]
- Thought for the day: innovation
Sage advice from Steve Yelvington:
The guys from Innosight often advise us to separate innovative projects from the mothership. And they have a simple prescription: Be patient for scale, but impatient for profit. You need to discover whether a project makes business sense (i.e., can generate some sort of a profit) before you try to make [...]
- How to break KitKats
I’ve stumbled across this fascinating piece about how Nestle has completely messed up the nation’s favourite confectionary, the KitKat.
But the tale of the KitKat in Britain, its home market, is a cautionary tale: sales have fallen 18% in two years, which is even faster than the sales collapse of the Daily Express. Taking the [...]
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