why the ai lab gave everyone root, including strangers. the waste of “are you authorized” is still going on in most orgs to this day.
Tag: business
Warner Music is totally screwed
Warner’s revenue was flat, while earnings fell by almost 60% to just $5M — and that’s on total sales of almost $900M, which works out to a profit margin of about 0.5%.
dead.
Technology Wants To Be Free
the 0 price option in business – making your product free is becoming more and more important. nice essay
Blockbuster
Blockbuster is doomed. And while many of us have known it for a while now, it’s amazing to me that the chairman of the company admitted this in a not-so subtle way, as well. For Blockbuster, there is currently no prospect for growth. Not only is it incapable of breaking the Netflix shell, the brick-and-mortar stores are failing, and there is little chance it will be able to capitalize on the future of movie rentals–downloading.
nice. a useless brick and mortar is biting the dust, albeit a bit too slowly for my taste
Otetsudai Networks
You sign up for the service with your skills and focus, take a GPS reading and then just hang out. If you are looking for someone for 3 hours to man a cash register, you just send the request and within minutes, you have a list of people available.
Tecno Brega
The music lies outside the realm of traditional copyright. Every weekend the “sound system” parties attract 1000s of people to listen to the Tecno Brega music. The parties are advertised by the distribution of the music itself.
real time tracking
The logistics field has a number of companies that are the equivalent of “quants” in finance that squeeze optimizations out of this data; a tiny improvement in efficiency can mean $10Ms of profit.
The case for Google
It may be true that Google, a company whose core business is very highly automated, may be massively overstaffed. Google may be a far more profitable business than its current results indicate.
indeed. why do we need all these MBAs, again?
Enterprise Software’s Youth Drain
who cares about “enterprise” software? that’s right, no one.
Multitenancy and the network effect
SaaS makes data sharing between companies easy
Gregor J. Rothfuss 