Giving individuals the tools to create personal demands on the open market: Project VRM Lowering the barriers to sharing data: Linked Open Data Entity extraction and other cool semantic technologies: Open Calais and Freebase Web scale structured information: Google Squared and Yahoo! Quest

“The aspects of our business model that hitherto made us successful were crystallized into our operation to sustain and ensure that success. However, as we try to adopt new business models and practices, those hardened beliefs and processes are the very things that will hold us back” Great quote, but it’s not one that can…

In December 1998 Business Week’s cover story described Amazon’s book retailing model where “with a single mouse click, an order can be placed on its Web site, making shopping a friendly, frictionless, even fun experience”. Since that time, Amazon’s range has grown to 10 million SKU’s, incorporating Marketplace, personalization, recommendations and reviews and serving the…

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