Trends in the Living Networks

APRIL 27, 2010

When I wrote the book Living Networks the content distribution landscape was in the early stages of unfolding. The software titan was finally galvanized to implement the strategy it had been musing about for years—switching to licensing its software as an annual subscription instead of a one-off purchase.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JULY 14, 2011

Below is an excerpt from my book Living Networks that describes how to develop effective strategies in what I call the “flow economy&# of information of ideas, where today almost all value resides. The idea of a firm’s distinctive competences and strengths of course has been central to business strategy for over a decade now.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Using a personal-area-network it could communicate with many other devices in or on your body to monitor your health, allow self-diagnosis of medical issues and even carry on most routine financial transactions and interactions. And, of course, we’ll always need elected officials. This change will strike at professional jobs too.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

JUNE 1, 2010

personal computing, local-area-network computing, client-server computing and Internet or web computing. Thank you Intel and IBM!) The development of Ethernet standards drove networking which allowed individual computers to talk to each other. And then computing, of course, became part of the mainstream culture.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

I know you’re very critical of Facebook and the other social networks. But I mean, during this interminable election week, we’ve seen the major social networks, to varying degrees, get more aggressive. A] social network is supposed to be social. They have to get a license before they put that on CNN, right? I disagree.

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A Screw's Loose

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The Consumerization of IT (CoIT) has led them to realize that they can’t keep selling businesses licenses to their product that will sit on the shelf unused due to the exorbitant control that IT would be exerting on a user’s device. They have started to realize, as I have been saying for a long time, that MDM as a product is dead.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

MARCH 2, 2009

That wealth flows elsewhere, of course, too. Microsoft’s licensing costs are a large part of our budget, as are the maintenance and licensing costs we pay to Oracle, IBM, ESRI, and many other vendors. And I’ll undoubtedly be doing it again at some time in the future, if my job isn’t cut first!

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The Verge

AUGUST 31, 2021

He’s an expert on chips and semiconductors — he spent years working at companies like IBM and Silicon Graphics. So you buy a processing unit design from somebody like Arm in the UK, who is very popular, and then maybe you need the USB interface, so you get a USB IP block, which you license. My guest today is Dr. Willy Shih.

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