February 22, 2005:
Quite simply, I highly recommend this book for anyone involved in the strategic success aspects of their business -- be it the company they work for, or their their own online (or offline) enterprise.
This latest publication, by the brilliant team of W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne, is based on a solid foundation comprised of a study of 150 strategic moves, spanning more than a hundred years and 30 industries.
Intriguing and thought provoking, this work challenges the "traditional" approaches to strategic success. The authors convincingly argue that true, lasting success comes from creating what they term "Blue Oceans" -- untapped new market spaces ripe for growth.
These strategic moves--which the authors call "value innovation"--create extremely powerful leaps in value, that often render rivals obsolete for more than a decade.
In this landmark work, their "Blue Ocean Strategy" presents a systematic approach to making the competition irrelevant, and outlines principles and tools that any company can use to create, and capture, blue oceans, and propel their business to new heights of long-lasting success.
About the authors:
W. Chan Kim is the Boston Consulting Group Bruce D. Henderson Chair Professor of Strategy and International Management at INSEAD. Renee Mauborgne is the INSEAD Distinguished Fellow and Professor of Strategy and Management.
About the link above:
The link above will take you to the home page of the "Harvard Business Online" website. Use the search box to find the complete collection of available offerings related to " Blue Ocean Strategy". You'll be glad you did.
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Monday, February 21, 2005
February 21, 2005
InformationWeek > Innovation > The Net Gets Faster > February 21, 2005:
This article from InformationWeek discusses an interesting concept, involving overlaying high-speed, point-to-point protocols on top of the usual TCP/IP and HTTP protocols, in the aim of attaining one second response times. Will it work? And, more importantly, will internet users "buy" into concept? What do you think?
"The Net Gets Faster"
Excerpt:
The software developers at Netli Inc. believe Internet users will want to supplement the sometimes slow and general-purpose TCP/IP and HTTP protocols that govern the Internet with high-speed ones that can deliver one-second response times anywhere in the world for a typical Web page download.
This article from InformationWeek discusses an interesting concept, involving overlaying high-speed, point-to-point protocols on top of the usual TCP/IP and HTTP protocols, in the aim of attaining one second response times. Will it work? And, more importantly, will internet users "buy" into concept? What do you think?
"The Net Gets Faster"
Excerpt:
The software developers at Netli Inc. believe Internet users will want to supplement the sometimes slow and general-purpose TCP/IP and HTTP protocols that govern the Internet with high-speed ones that can deliver one-second response times anywhere in the world for a typical Web page download.
Tuesday, February 08, 2005
RIAA sues the dead
"RIAA sues the dead"
Source: The Register
Date Written: February 5, 2005
Date Collected: February 7, 2005
Lawyers representing several record companies have filed suit against Gertrude Walton, 83, who allegedly made more than 700 copyrighted songs available over the Internet. However, Mrs. Walton, formerly of Beckley, West Virginia, died in December 2004, and hated computers, according to her daughter, Robin Chianumba. Mrs. Chianumba said she sent a copy of her mother's death certificate to record company lawyers in response to an initial warning letter, more than a week before the suit was filed.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/05/riaa_sues_the_dead"
Source: The Register
Date Written: February 5, 2005
Date Collected: February 7, 2005
Lawyers representing several record companies have filed suit against Gertrude Walton, 83, who allegedly made more than 700 copyrighted songs available over the Internet. However, Mrs. Walton, formerly of Beckley, West Virginia, died in December 2004, and hated computers, according to her daughter, Robin Chianumba. Mrs. Chianumba said she sent a copy of her mother's death certificate to record company lawyers in response to an initial warning letter, more than a week before the suit was filed.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/05/riaa_sues_the_dead"
Saturday, February 05, 2005
Hacker 'Mudge' Returns to BBN
A "legend" returns! 'Mudge' is back!
For those of us who have been around the internet for a while, he is well known, as is the "Lopht" group he was part of.
For those who are not as deeply steeped in internet lore and legend, 'Mudge" (and Lopht, also) were the real thing, not like the "script kiddies", etc. of today.
Here the link to the article, and a snippet:
Hacker 'Mudge' Returns to BBN:
Security industry veteran and itinerant hacker Peiter Zatko decided this week to rejoin Internet pioneer BBN Technologies Inc. as a research scientist.
Better known in security circles as Mudge, Zatko was one of the founding members of the L0pht Heavy Industries hacking team that later became the technical heart of @stake Inc. He left @stake several years ago and stayed away from the security industry for a while before resurfacing last year as the founding scientist at Intrusic Inc., a Waltham, Mass., startup.
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Called to testify along with several other L0pht members before a Senate committee in 1998, Zatko famously told the senators that he or any of his cohorts could take down the Internet in a half hour.
For those of us who have been around the internet for a while, he is well known, as is the "Lopht" group he was part of.
For those who are not as deeply steeped in internet lore and legend, 'Mudge" (and Lopht, also) were the real thing, not like the "script kiddies", etc. of today.
Here the link to the article, and a snippet:
Hacker 'Mudge' Returns to BBN:
Security industry veteran and itinerant hacker Peiter Zatko decided this week to rejoin Internet pioneer BBN Technologies Inc. as a research scientist.
Better known in security circles as Mudge, Zatko was one of the founding members of the L0pht Heavy Industries hacking team that later became the technical heart of @stake Inc. He left @stake several years ago and stayed away from the security industry for a while before resurfacing last year as the founding scientist at Intrusic Inc., a Waltham, Mass., startup.
......
Called to testify along with several other L0pht members before a Senate committee in 1998, Zatko famously told the senators that he or any of his cohorts could take down the Internet in a half hour.
Security advisory: Exploit Released for Combined RealPlayer, IE Flaws
Security advisory: Exploit Released involving RealPlayer and (of course) Internet Explorer
Here's the link to the article and a snippet:
Exploit Released for Combined RealPlayer, IE Flaws:
Security researchers have found a way to combine two unrelated—and unpatched—vulnerabilities in RealPlayer and Internet Explorer to launch malicious hacker attacks on PCs.
According to an advisory from Secunia, exploit code that could be used for system bypass attacks has been released on the Web, potentially putting millions of RealPlayer users at risk.
Here's the link to the article and a snippet:
Exploit Released for Combined RealPlayer, IE Flaws:
Security researchers have found a way to combine two unrelated—and unpatched—vulnerabilities in RealPlayer and Internet Explorer to launch malicious hacker attacks on PCs.
According to an advisory from Secunia, exploit code that could be used for system bypass attacks has been released on the Web, potentially putting millions of RealPlayer users at risk.
ViGuard Not Close Enough For Virus Work
The article is of interest on two different fronts: (1) It discusses the product alleged capabilities and how well or porrly they are achieved, and (2) it highlights the plight of the security researcher who analyzed the program, and publicized its failings, including showing some exploit code to illustrate his point(s). Now, he's been indicted and is facing trial.
The question is this: Did he "cross the line" by including/disclosing the exploit code? If he hadn't furnished his "proof", would they still have indicted him? What do you think??
Here's the link to the full article, and a small snippet of it:
ViGuard Not Close Enough For Virus Work:
The holy grail of malware detection is the generic threat detector, unburdened by the need for updates to account for every new variation of every virus that comes out every day. Such a product could just know a threat when it sees it based on the behavioral characteristics of the program.
These are the claims made by French software company Tegam International for ViGuard, a product that was in the news recently. Back in 2001 a security researcher analyzed the program and wrote that it did not measure up to the company's claims, and as part of the process wrote some exploit code to demonstrate the flaws. For his trouble he was indicted by a French court and is standing trial.
The question is this: Did he "cross the line" by including/disclosing the exploit code? If he hadn't furnished his "proof", would they still have indicted him? What do you think??
Here's the link to the full article, and a small snippet of it:
ViGuard Not Close Enough For Virus Work:
The holy grail of malware detection is the generic threat detector, unburdened by the need for updates to account for every new variation of every virus that comes out every day. Such a product could just know a threat when it sees it based on the behavioral characteristics of the program.
These are the claims made by French software company Tegam International for ViGuard, a product that was in the news recently. Back in 2001 a security researcher analyzed the program and wrote that it did not measure up to the company's claims, and as part of the process wrote some exploit code to demonstrate the flaws. For his trouble he was indicted by a French court and is standing trial.
Hunting Down E-Commerce Bandits
Interesting article on efforts to twart those selling goods on the "gray" market (i.e., significantly below the usual price):
Hunting Down E-Commerce Bandits
"Somewhere in Arizona—they insist that their exact location be kept secret so that e-commerce bandits won't recognize their address—sits a team of 18 Internet experts who hunt down people and companies that are either selling products illegally or are violating copyrights.
But the real work is done overnight, where a suite of homegrown applications crawls literally millions of Internet e-commerce locations, including Web sites, RSS feeds, Usenet newsgroups, private discussion groups (such as Yahoo's), IRC chat rooms, mailing lists and spam..."
Hunting Down E-Commerce Bandits
"Somewhere in Arizona—they insist that their exact location be kept secret so that e-commerce bandits won't recognize their address—sits a team of 18 Internet experts who hunt down people and companies that are either selling products illegally or are violating copyrights.
But the real work is done overnight, where a suite of homegrown applications crawls literally millions of Internet e-commerce locations, including Web sites, RSS feeds, Usenet newsgroups, private discussion groups (such as Yahoo's), IRC chat rooms, mailing lists and spam..."
Friday, February 04, 2005
E-Commerce News: Viewpoint: Click Hijacking Threatens E-Business
Interesting opinion piece on the threat of relatively new technique for generating false clicks on ads. Definitely something to keep in mind and watch out for, if you use any of the "pay per click" services in your marketing campaigns:
E-Commerce News: Viewpoint: Click Hijacking Threatens E-Business:
"Scammers apparently find it relatively easy to create software that generates these false clicks on ads. In fact, some of them are becoming so sophisticated that the clicks that they are creating somehow fall under the 'radar' of the search engine gatekeepers. Well, we have yet another definition to add to our technology lexicon: click hijacking. With the advent of powerful and profitable search engines, like Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) Latest News about Google, Internet schemers have come up with yet another way to illegally make a buck."
E-Commerce News: Viewpoint: Click Hijacking Threatens E-Business:
"Scammers apparently find it relatively easy to create software that generates these false clicks on ads. In fact, some of them are becoming so sophisticated that the clicks that they are creating somehow fall under the 'radar' of the search engine gatekeepers. Well, we have yet another definition to add to our technology lexicon: click hijacking. With the advent of powerful and profitable search engines, like Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) Latest News about Google, Internet schemers have come up with yet another way to illegally make a buck."
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