Archive for October, 2006
Fiber from Blockbuster: Crazy? Or Crazy Awesome?
0 Comments Published by Ontologi October 26th, 2006 in What If?.Blockbuster has over 8500 corporate and franchise stores in 28 countries. What if they ran fiber from one of those locations to every home and apartment building within a 1/4 of a mile?
Now, before you shoot me down as crazy, know that I agree with you; this is a little nuts. But bear […]
Won’t Someone Think of the Theaters!
0 Comments Published by Ontologi October 14th, 2006 in Movies, What If?.Americans are abandoning the moviegoing habit for good.
So says George Lucas to Variety. He thinks that to remain successful in the film business of the future, you need to create lots of quality content with smaller budgets for smaller audiences. The idea that you can spend a ton of money on production and […]
Search Engine Watch’s Danny Sullivan raises some interesting questions about Natural Language Search and a new entrant, Powerset. Fundamentally, what do users want from a search engine?
George Lucas has some interesting thoughts on the movie business. What are the implications for Movie Theaters?
IBM To Open Up Patent Filings: What are the Possibilities?
1 Comment Published by Ontologi October 1st, 2006 in Why Not?.Over on Maneuver Marketing, Mike Smock comments on IBM’s announcement that they will publish their patent filings online before the patent is awarded. Keeping such filings a secret from competitors is usually the obvious way to go.
The innovation cornerstone for most enterprises is technology and intellectual property. Of course innovation is not limited to […]



