Posted: January 6th, 2010 | Author: Chim | Filed under: Education, Food for thoughts | Tags: Canada, Food for thoughts, Guide, Interesting, Internet, Sweden | No Comments »
I found out a quality of life index of over 100 countries. Canada is positioned at 11th together with other 8 countries.
Quality of Life Index 2009
Read more here.
Posted: January 5th, 2010 | Author: Chim | Filed under: Food for thoughts, Tools, Web 2.0 | Tags: Business, Entrepreneurs, Food for thoughts, Google, Interesting, Internet, Web | No Comments »
The smartphone industry is moving to follow the same path of the personal computer (PC). Both industries have a lot of manufacturers. For example, Dell for computers and Motorola for smartphone. PC and smartphones have operating systems. For PC, the major OS is Windows and for smartphone, there are more than one major operating system. There are iPhone OS, Blackberry and Android (Google). It seems that there is a platform war among the manufacturers and Google. Imagine that a company can implement a system that is used by most of the cellphone manufacturers. This company will be able to control the smartphone industry, just as Microsoft controls the PC industry.
Nexus One Homepage
Google launched its official cellphone with Android operating system today. It is entering the smartphone market by providing a free OS to cellphone and aligning with manufacturer to provide a better user experience through better applications and superior hardware.
Google may reach a dominance in the smartphone market if it can have more manufacturers using its OS. However, manufacturers are not going to rely 100% in one software company. At the same time, most industry players do not have core competency in software development, thus they may rely on Google Android this time.
Meanwhile, iPhone is growing and Blackberry is responding to the new threats in the market. Nokia and other cellphones company are losing ground. It is an interesting time for this fast changing industry.
My 2 cents.
Posted: January 2nd, 2010 | Author: Chim | Filed under: Food for thoughts, Framework | Tags: Food for thoughts, Fun, Interesting, Internet | No Comments »
Very very interesting way to see history, politics and graphics.
These guys are great in doing info visual stuff.
http://www.blog.biggerpicture.dk/our-history-visualized/
Posted: December 23rd, 2009 | Author: Chim | Filed under: Food for thoughts, Framework, Shopping, Web 2.0 | Tags: AdWords, Business, Food for thoughts, Google, Interesting, Internet, Money, Productivity, Useful | No Comments »
The Science of Managing Search Ads
There is an amazing article about Google AdWords from the New York Times.
It illustrates the management of an online campaign in AdWords for a company called Tiny Prints. This company advertisers on Google and gets a substantial part of its revenue and customers from AdWords. The company has stopped advertising for a day, trying to decrease its acquisition cost, but it ended up losing customers and allowing competitors to grow. Its management team decided to advertise again and it started to manage its campaign more closely, balancing the ads spending, competitors’ bids and profits.
The article gives an accurate view of how advertisers live with AdWords. To have success in that platform, you need to have quick decision, money and knowledge to use this powerful tool.
Read more here: The Science of Managing Search Ads
Posted: December 22nd, 2009 | Author: Chim | Filed under: Education, Entrepreneurship, Food for thoughts, Startups, Venture Capital, Web 2.0 | Tags: Business plan, Canada, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Food for thoughts, Internet, Venture Capital | No Comments »
