Archive for December, 2006
Verizon: It’s the Network…And It’s Incomplete.
0 Comments Published by Ontologi December 10th, 2006 in Good Ideas.In two previous posts, Does Verizon really care about the Network? and Scrounging for Ideas behind the Marketing, we asked what tangible actions customers see to back up the Network and Dropped Call bragging that Verizon and Cingular do.
They don’t provide any statistics that, say, plot a customers signal strength over the month. What […]
3rd Place - From Wii Market Share to Every Living Room
0 Comments Published by Ontologi December 8th, 2006 in Good Ideas, What If?.James Surowiecki’s column in the New Yorker on Nintendo’s new Wii gaming console:
It’s really well suited for just one thing: playing games. But this turns out to be an asset. The Wii’s simplicity means that Nintendo can make money selling consoles, while Sony is reportedly losing more than two hundred and forty dollars on each […]
Cisco Field vs. Amazon EC2
0 Comments Published by Ontologi December 6th, 2006 in Giving up Control.Previously, we argued that the Cisco-Athletics stadium deal was more likely to constrain the stadium of the future than enable it.
Cisco’s creation of the infrastructure and, at first blush, their desire to build the applications that run on that infrastructure may create an environment that is the exact opposite of the vibrant Silicon Valley Cisco […]



