The Strategic Fumble
http://vukicevic.blogspot.com/2009/09/strategic-fumble.html
The fumble is usually caused by competitors but is often easier to recover from.
http://vukicevic.blogspot.com/2009/09/strategic-fumble.html
The fumble is usually caused by competitors but is often easier to recover from.
http://vukicevic.blogspot.com/2009/09/strategic-interception.html
Business is a lot like football, the interception comes from over-reaching and can change momentum in an instant.
http://vukicevic.blogspot.com/2009/09/costly-construction.html
One closed lane costs New York City's economy $55 Million a year.
http://vukicevic.blogspot.com/2009/09/too-minty.html
Intuit is taking a $170 Million gamble on Mint's greatest opportunity and greatest threat.
http://vukicevic.blogspot.com/2009/09/wired-way.html
How Wired Magazine might hold the key to saving paper-based publications.
http://vukicevic.blogspot.com/2009/09/second-resume.html
Second Resume management will spawn a big new industry.
http://vukicevic.blogspot.com/2009/08/twitter-is-to-email-as-radio-is-to_28.html
Why Twitter isn't the same species as MySpace.
http://vukicevic.blogspot.com/2009/08/text-me.html
The written word will maintain its position as the king of content on the Internet.
http://vukicevic.blogspot.com/2009/08/bing-approach.html
It has its foot in the door but no body to walk through.
http://vukicevic.blogspot.com/2009/08/whats-in-name.html
The growing scarcity of domain names is creating a new language.
http://vukicevic.blogspot.com/2009/08/iphone-spy-hurts-innovation.html
The new iPhone Black Box is a spying device that will hurt innovation and will further alienate Apple from openness.
Facebook might not be a perfect example - I think Twitter is probably better since it's more of a platform.
A DNS or ISP disruption can usually be more localized. I would argue that it's much easier to disrupt a Twitter or a Facebook than it would to take down multiple DNS servers or multiple ISPs. It would take less resrouces and time to create a global disruption by taking down Twitter than it would to take down an ISP.
It's more about the structure that has evolved - an inverse pyramid of communication vs. the traditional web. At the bottom we have services like Facebook and Twitter with a plethora of applications on top. This adds greater pressure for those foundational services to protect themselves and some have done a better job than other (i.e. Facebook vs. Twitter).
http://vukicevic.blogspot.com/2009/08/fragile-internet.html
The new Internet is based on a set of principles that depend on susceptible bottlenecks such as Twitter and Facebook. Disruptions to these bottlenecks would have global ramifications.
http://vukicevic.blogspot.com/2009/08/hide-your-face-or-get-fired.html
No Internet anonymity = Big Brother trouble
http://vukicevic.blogspot.com/2009/08/consumers-with-conscience.html
Driven by Generation Y, the conscience has finally become a major factor in all consumer-based decisions.
http://vukicevic.blogspot.com/2009/08/do-social-networks-stifle-innovation.html
It's widely believed that early sharing and the potential for early criticism of rough ideas may stop perfectly good radical innovation in its tracks - that social networks that support this instant criticism are bad for innovation. I'm not convinced.
http://vukicevic.blogspot.com/2009/08/to-be-or-not-to-be.html
Can e-book readers fulfill the same needs as real books? Something feels wrong...