Archive for December, 2005

2005 the year Google came of age

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

Little was known about the inner workings of Google at the start of 2005.

That all changed in September with John Battelle’s book The Search.

It highlighted how Google and its rivals were transforming business and culture.

More insights were provided by people within the organisation.

Adam Bosworth shared his thoughts on vision.

Marissa Mayer shared her thoughts on […]

Providing passionate people with purpose

Thursday, December 15th, 2005

One trillion dollars will be spent worldwide on all forms of communication in 2006.

Of this $400 billion will be spent on marketing globally.

The top 100 global marketers will spend $100 billion alone.

New ways of communicating are disintermediating traditional media channels.

Advertising, PR and Marketing Services built around traditional media is outmoded.

Instead of talking to or at […]

Microsoft Channel 9

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

Microsoft currently employs in excess of 58k people worldwide.

Maintaining internal + external communications presents challenges.

However Microsofts success in doing so has evolved from its Channel 9 project.

It was designed to facilitate comms between Microsoft and its developers and users.

Lenn Pryor conceived Channel 9 and told his story to Jon Froda and Jesper Bindslev.

The Channel 9 […]

Universal access to all knowledge

Thursday, December 1st, 2005

The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.

Brewster Kahle founded the Internet Archive in 1996.

His vision is to provide universal access to all knowledge.

The last time this was attempted […]