In the late 90′s Microsoft killed Netscape by simply giving the browser away for free. Back then it was very hard to compete against free. By end of 2003 Microsoft’s Internet Explorer reached 85% market share for two reasons: 1) There was no contender in the field wanting to compete with Microsoft. 2) Microsoft tried [...]
Read more →The German language has two distinct periods: The “Ice Age” and the “Tropical Age”. In english it is just called glacial and interglacial. People look at our current period as “global warming” and connect that with pollution and all kinds of sociological and economic events rather than looking into the mega cycles that happen in [...]
Read more →When you start your social media engagement you probably start on LinkedIn or Facebook. You explore Twitter and maybe have already an account on YoutTube or Flickr. As you get connected with people you hear about Foursquare, Yelp and Google+, maybe SlideShare and Quora. Others introduce you to LonkedIn Groups or Facebook group, maybe Focus [...]
Read more →Inspired by a report about hypernovas “Hypernovas” – The Most Violent Object in the Universe Confirmed” It came to my mind, that whether we are created by accident, purpose, or a god, humans are the only being at least on earth who have a chance to move life from a given planet (in our case [...]
Read more →If you are on EAv you may enjoy this post that I wrote on the Social Media Academy Blog
Read more →Empire Avenue has become very popular just recently. It’s a game that plays on ‘social capital’. It allows you to trade based on social capital by buying and selling shares of friends that are active in the social web. The ‘market value’ or connection score of players is determined by the value they’re contributing to [...]
Read more →An amazing story, and amazing way to educate… got to see! Thanks Michael Green for discovering it.
Read more →Black Friday starts and people get in lines for hours, trample other to death and buy stuff they don’t need – all because they believe they get a deal of a life time. 50% off has many meanings: 1) That shop is ripping you off the rest of the year 2) It was produced to [...]
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