Archive for November, 2005

FT / Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year 2005

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005

The World Is Flat has won the inaugral FT/GS Business Book of The Year Award.

Selected from a shortlist of six titles (pictured below) it was chosen for providing …

“the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues” of any title published in English in the past year.

Richard Florida’s response essay The World Is Spiky […]

Google - Yahoo - Microsoft

Monday, November 14th, 2005

While Microsoft recently turned 30 it is easy to forget how young its competitors are.

The August 9th 1995 Netscape IPO heralded the start of the dotcom boom years.

Yahoo, Amazon and Ebay each celebrated their tenth birthdays this year.

Google is a mere seven years young.

Yahoo and Microsoft are playing catchup with Google within online advertising.

Today Google […]

Peter F. Drucker - RIP

Saturday, November 12th, 2005

Nov. 19th 1909 - Nov. 11th 2005

The future of communicating

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005

The synchronisation of information, communications and technology (ICT) has begun.

Forbes recently issued an excellent special report on communicating.

The first annual IAB conference, Engage 2005, was held on October 27th 2005.

Keynote speakers included Sir Martin Sorrell, Bill Gates and Lord Puttnam.

Streaming video of speeches from three of the biggest names in ICT is available here.

All of […]