Death to “Net Neutrality”!

Friday, April 21, 2006 (Imdat Solak)

There is lots of discussion regarding net neutrality these days. Most of the discussions comes from the proponents of Net Neutrality. They even contacted congress in order to get a legal solutions. How crazy can you be?

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Knowledge Management: Social Networking Goes Corporate

Thursday, April 20, 2006 (Imdat Solak)

These days “Social Networking” is, to put it mildly, en vogue. Everybody wants to somehow do something with social networking. Of course, I am also member of OpenBC as well as LinkedIn. But still, I was always missing the more crucial usage of social networks, i.e. the usage for Knowledge Management. Here comes a company promising to solve that problem - finally.

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Want to Keep Customers? Set Them Free

Friday, April 14, 2006 (Imdat Solak)


These days, the most successful sites are those that understand that the Web isn’t merely a delivery channel for their product, but a larger ecosystem in which they play a part.

[...] Any business model that relies on customers never discovering your competitors is built on a shaky foundation indeed (via Want to Keep Customers? Set Them Free - BusinessWeek).

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AOL Europe may go up for sale (… and why should I buy it??)

Thursday, April 13, 2006 (Imdat Solak)


Bankers speculated that the whole of AOL Europe could be valued at €1bn, while the French business could be worth €250m and the German business is valued at around €450m (Telegraph | Money | AOL Europe may go up for sale).

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Google shareholder wants change to voting structure

Thursday, April 13, 2006 (Imdat Solak)


Google’s triumvirate — co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and Chief Executive Eric Schmidt — hold overwhelming voting power through a two-tier voting structure. Page and Brin hold around 28.8 percent and 28.7 percent, respectively, of Class B voting shares, giving them majority control of Google (via Latest Business News and Financial Information | Reuters.com).

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