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John Hagel’s Edge Perspectives blog provides some interesting insights into globalization and the impact of the Internet on the global economy.
Among the problems he identifies in several posts is the tendency of companies to focus on short-term savings from suppliers, thereby creating an ongoing adversarial relationship that doesn’t ultimately serve either party well. Hagel suggests that a better solution is to cultivate long-term supplier relationships that can lead to better responsiveness and greater flexibility. He identifies this as one of the major problems that has placed U.S.-based automakers behind the competition.
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C|net has a story today about the race companies like Sun Microsystems, IBM and Microsoft are in to quickly include Ajax support in the development tools they provide since Ajax has become such a buzzworthy word. Open-source projects like Ruby on Rails were fast to include Ajax support and there are stand-alone javascript libraries like Prototype, Scriptaculous and Moo.ajax appearing faster than a person can keep track of them.
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Jupiter Research just released a forecast report that predicts online activity will affect 50 percent of all retail sales by 2010. This includes items that are either bought online or researched online, and bought elsewhere. There is a more detailed story regarding the research on Internet News.
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It really happened. Disney has bought Pixar and made Steve Jobs a richer man than he already was and put him on the board of one of the largest Hollywood content companies there are. The first videos that Apple sold for its new video iPods were from Disney and Disney-owned companies, the fact that Jobs was able to make those deals had to be in some small part due to the relationship he had with them through years of distributing movies like Toy Story and Finding Nemo.
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The borderless Internet may have been the goal, but government interference into the free flow of information has put serious restrictions on the liberating effect that might have had on culture and society. The Open Net Initiative, sponsored by the University of Toronto, Harvard and Cambridge Universities, is focusing its research on what individual governments are doing to control information flow, and the impact this has had on politics, human rights, state sovereignty and law.
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