tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-157390382011-06-21T23:16:38.808-07:00This blog is about change, new ideas and innovations, focussing in particular on their potential impact on our lives and businesses.Tom Foalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03745187814670634792noreply@blogger.comBlogger41100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15739038.post-1130012315486827142005-10-22T02:36:00.000-07:002007-01-29T07:59:30.683-08:00

Tom Evslin has been posting on Web 2.0 aka Bubble 2.0, the Long Tail, blogging and the economics of networks at Fractals of Change. His recent comments on extra-value networks are about the same Metcalfe's law as my blog on the MSN/Yahoo instant messenger link-up. More on that later.Tom has some interesting ideas on directions on the internet, largely brought about by the development of broadband

Tom Foalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03745187814670634792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15739038.post-1129370089515746862005-10-15T02:50:00.000-07:002006-02-02T20:09:45.023-08:00

Why have Microsoft and Yahoo made their instant messenger applications compatible, and what is the likely effect?Yahoo and Microsoft have competed in the IM space with AIM and with third party integrators such as Trillian and Fire for many years. MSN has the largest global IM population, followed by Yahoo, with AIM a distant third, although it leads in its home market.This is entirely down to an

Tom Foalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03745187814670634792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15739038.post-1129005491583087142005-10-10T21:24:00.000-07:002007-02-02T21:17:41.206-08:00

If you are struggling to keep up with all of your news sources and you find RSS a pain, try Silobreaker.This is a new integrated news tool which finds and categorises articles very effectively. They can be viewed by topic or geographically, or drilled down into. If you find a person or subject of interest you can easily find other related articles. You can see the news 'environment' around a

Tom Foalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03745187814670634792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15739038.post-1128439639854887402005-10-04T08:19:00.000-07:002006-02-21T18:50:39.876-08:00

Ebay’s purchase of Skype for $2.6Bn in cash and shares, with an extra $1.5Bn revenue earn-out based on achieving goals up to 2008, looks very expensive – some would say insane. The question everyone is asking is – what can Ebay have seen that makes it worth that much money? This blog (my first!) takes a stab at answering that question.With total transactions exceeding $10Bn per quarter in the

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