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Wolfram Alpha Search Engine to be launched May 2009

by Minter Dial | Apr 5, 2009 | New Tech

To read the author's pre-released blog post (written March 5, 2009), Wolfram Alpha, the new search engine due out in May 2009, is a kind of combination of the Theory of Everything meets Einstein's Google. The author, Stephen Wolfram, is the father of two other...

Google to buy Twitter?

by Minter Dial | Apr 5, 2009 | Social Media

The rumour mill has it that Google is back at the negotiating table to buy Twitter. The twipping point has tipped the scales in Twitter's favour. According to this IT PRO article (April 3) or the TechCrunch article (April 2), the deal is close. If the price is over...

Change Management – Cutting Dollars & Making Sense in Recession

by Minter Dial | Apr 5, 2009 | Marketing

In these times of recession, a change is certainly gonna come... For the companies feeling the hit (not referring to Sam Cooke), there is plenty of talk of cutting budgets and payroll (though much less of the latter in France). In such environments, one speaks of...

Universal Music — A Musical Journey Around the World

by Minter Dial | Apr 4, 2009 | Marketing

For this post, I would like to take you on a kind of virtual journey. Specifically, I will share a series of videos that show the world connecting through music, proof that music has a special universality. Take the trip, I think you will enjoy the ride. In the best...

Walmart listening to its customers

by Minter Dial | Apr 2, 2009 | Business, Marketing

THE MOST IMPORTANT DIGITAL LESSON I'VE LEARNED... I have picked this pearl of wisdom to share with you today: You can't control what people say about you on the web, but you can be a good listener. This is from Walmart: Walmart has been getting into the act it would...

Romain Jérôme Watches at BaselWorld 2009

by Minter Dial | Mar 31, 2009 | Marketing

I love watches. Maybe it's a guy's thing and/or maybe it's because guys don't have much "jewellery" to bandy about. In any event, I was struck by a couple of things in a recent article in Le Figaro ("Des montres qui racontent des histoires" or "Watches that tell a...

Looking out for the Signs in Your Life

by Minter Dial | Mar 31, 2009 | Leadership

Sometimes there are wonderful messages that pop up in your life. I am not thinking of the messages on email or Facebook, etc. I am thinking of the random ones that you have to look out for. There I was, taking a chairlift at the Combloux ski resort and thinking...

Twitter: Global Village or Recessionista?

by Minter Dial | Mar 28, 2009 | Social Media

Twitter, it seems, is making mainstream headlines daily these days. Yesterday, the IHT featured on page 2, an article "A truth renewed online: It still takes a village," which begins: "Twitter and Facebook are, OMG, so last millennium". The article, written by Anand...

A perfect date this year…

by Minter Dial | Mar 24, 2009 | Education

DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . . . if you live in the United States (i.e. you write the date MM/DD/YY), at five minutes and six seconds after 4 AM on the 8th of July this year, the time and date will be: 04:05:06 07/08/09 It's a beautiful thing. This will not happen again...

Twitter – Sweeping Growth as Business Tool

by Minter Dial | Mar 23, 2009 | Marketing

Twitter update - 7+ million users and growing... fast Twitter has grown by a staggering 1382% in the span of one year, to have over 7 million monthly unique visitors, according to data from market research firm Nielsen. The research suggested that Twitter was becoming...

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