IPTV Business Tactics

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[Reinvent TV] The upcoming competition between cable companies and telco’s is well documented. The cable companies are offering telephone services (VoIP) and the telco’s are offering television (IPTV). One thing that remains to be seen is whether the telephone giants will gain traction in that battle. So, today, I wish to comment about a specific tactic that I find questionable.

Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[Fixing Australia] Lynton Crosby: globetrotting, spreading dirty dog whistles: The standard response to the well-bred contempt that Crosby and his kind arouse is that democrats can't complain if they give the public what it wants. The excuse doesn't wash because, like the media, the world's Crosbys are caught in the paradox of populism. On the one hand, they know that fear sells better than sex and that if you are a newspaper, political party or television channel, the best thing you can do is present yourself as the friend of the common man, ready to take on the 'elitists' who are threatening his way of life. On the other, falling turn-outs, readerships and viewing figures across the developed democracies prove that the more populist politics and the media become, the less popular they are with the common people.

[Murmurs, Mutters and Other White Noise] The Orchard Road Gauntlet: I've realised the best way to get rid of them is by saying you already have a financial adviser from Prudential/GEastern/Aviva or any other reputable insurer and that you are covered. Do this as you have one hand raised infront of their faces and shaking your head without breaking stride. This usually works. Saying you have no money or savings usually bring up a new bevy of questions.

[StarSpangledHaggis] Blame it on Schuyler Colfax: Its travels on the way from Dutch to Spanish are uncertain, but it is likely that the Spanish borrowed the word from the French, flibustier, fribustier, who apparently got it from the English freebooter. Early in the nineteenth century, John Randolph, a senator from Virginia, got into the habit of making long and irrelevant speeches on the floor of the Senate. The Senate got so fed up with such tactics that it voted to give the presiding officer explicit power to deal with such problems. In 1872, however, Vice President Schuyler Colfax struck a blow against the expeditious handling of Senate business with his ruling that “under the practice of the Senate the presiding officer could not restrain a Senator in remarks which the Senator considers pertinent to the pending issue.”

[Not Yet Enlightened] Collounsbury, Edward Underscore, PG Wodehouse MASH!: Mortdecai has a real eye (and it looks like Bonfiglioli was seriously in the art world), so there are a few flights of almost genuine feeling about art (hence reference to Edward Underscore, also at Obsidian Wings). But the pervailing sentiment is the drone of wasted talent and the sensation of crisis brought about by the incompetency of others; this frustration with the stupidness of the world is filtered through brief and cruel sketches of the incomprehensible and irrational self-delusions of other people (hence the reference to the tetchy ruminations on North-African and Mid-Eastern business of the very-undercover Collounsbury).

Strategy, Innovation, Futures BusinessBlog: This is a great example of why the 'self-service' trend is so hot and will continue to be the preferred way of people to interact with systems. At first you'd think the airline personnel who used to staff the check in desks would be highly threatened by this, but they have now realized that they are freed up to really add value to situations where people really need help, not just the transactional. And now kiosks are moving up the value chain, mooving from the transactional to the 'revenue generating' as they have new functions to buy drink coupons and 'auction' first class seats depending on demand. Imagine this kind of self-service environment in a much broader way inside organizations, its a great way to help them learn and develop, as well as freeing up 'real' people to focus on the most important things.

How to Know What's Being Said About You Online and Why You Need to ...: The Internet not only brings a new component to media interviews but also offers a new definition of reporter. Thanks to the Internet, and particularly to inexpensive, easy-to-use blogging software, everyone can be a publisher. A post by an influential blogger or list moderator, or a comment made by a complete stranger in the feedback section of a media site or chat room can have as much - or more - impact as a story in a major national news outlet.

Blogs Will Change Your Business: The founders all insist that they plan to remain independent. But if recent history is any guide, most of them will wind up in the bellies of the blog-minded Internet giants -- led by Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft. The latest to disappear was Flickr. A photo-sharing service that spread madly across the blog world, 13-month-old Flickr was still running its software in its beta, or testing, phase when it was acquired by Yahoo in March for an undisclosed sum.

Management Consultants' Blog: US Strategy Consulting - why are so ...: I agree that while many IT services have become comoditized and even outsourced, companies value strategy consulting more than ever. The comoditization of IT services has increased not only the value of business strategy engagements but also operational strategy, business case and metrics, and process improvement efforts that serve to justify substantial investment in IT projects.

The Home Biz Blog... talking about home business, marketing ...: The major blog giants have also joined forces against comment spam and generated the new rel="nofollow" attribute on links which prevents websites from getting credit (increased PageRank) towards search engine ranking through posting comments on blogs. There is even a nifty nofollow plugin available for Movable Type users. I've installed it and it seems to me like it's working 100% - so if your main goal by commenting is to increase your PageRank you can forget about it.

Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Small Business, Business Strategy, Business Process, Internet Marketing, Startups, Plasma TV News

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