Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School IE Radio 10/26/2009 93 comments Rosabeth Moss Kanter is a professor in the Harvard Business School and the author of "SuperCorp," a look at "values-driven" businesses. A longtime corporate advisor, Prof. Kanter will discuss what she's telling clients in the wake of the recession and Web 2.0.
Clay Shirky, Author IE Radio 10/14/2009 86 comments Prolific writer and speaker about the future of all things Internet, Clay Shirky will discuss where newspapers are headed, why some crowds don't emit wisdom, and whether the Internet can help the economy
Tim Westergren, founder, Pandora IE Radio 10/12/2009 231 comments Founder and chief strategy officer of Pandora, Tim Westergren has a unique perspective into the future of digital content on and off the desktop. Westergren will talk about how to operate a viable content-serving Website -- as well as dish on the licensing debate that almost killed Internet radio.
Jason Calacanis, founder, Mahalo IE Radio 10/8/2009 244 comments Jason Calacanis, founder and CEO of Mahalo, was also a founder of Weblogs Inc., which he sold to AOL in 2005. He discusses the need for human-powered search in a Google-dominated world, as well as why he might turn his back on Apple products.
Philip Rosedale, founder, Second Life IE Radio 10/6/2009 360 comments Virtual-world maven and Second Life founder Philip Rosedale talks about the most surprising uses (and misuses) of the virtual arena, the rise of digital goods as a business model, and how to build a profitable business in the virtual domain.
Scott Monty, head of social media, Ford IE Radio 10/1/2009 142 comments A pioneer in social media use by an enterprise, Scott Monty is literally the face of Ford Motor Co. on Twitter, Facebook, and his own social media marketing blog. After a year on the job at Ford, Monty shares some insights, lessons learned, and tips for enterprises looking to derive returns from social media
I've been writing about how the next evolution of the Internet might just be an advertising revolution, and how corporate IT can stay involved as the enablers and providers of the technologies that make this possible.
In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M.
The smartphone market reached a significant milestone, a breakthrough that may cause vendors to celebrate but could strain the capabilities of IT service desks.
In the fall of 2011, around 160,000 students in 190 countries enrolled in a Stanford-sponsored online course about artificial intelligence. About 23,000 completed the course and got certificates, including 248 who got a perfect score. The university offered the same course the old-fashioned way to students sitting in Stanford classrooms. None of the those students got a perfect score.
New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority is conducting a pilot test of digital kiosks to guide subway users to where they want to go more efficiently and at lower cost.
The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
While NFC's original goal was to enhance mobile commerce applications, it is finding its way into a number of other uses, which is creating both opportunity as well as challenges for IT departments.
Enterprises would like to move to cloud computing but are hesitant because they are concerned about providers’ ability to secure company data. Here are some tips that help to ensure that if breaches occur, the business is not left holding the bag.
Edmunds separates customers into segments based on the info it collects on its site and from partners, and uses that to push out custom content, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
The automotive website uses propensity modeling to target ads and customer registration forms, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
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M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School
