Dealing with it

August 31, 2007 — Doc Searls

In Competing Messages: Commerce and Sociality Dave Rogers says, Commerce, at least as practiced in the west, is a competitive enterprise. There are winners and losers, some succeed while others fail. Every player seeks an advantage at all times. It’s a dynamic system, so strategies change and evolve over time, and the system presses against [Read More →]

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Health care relationship management

August 14, 2007 — Doc Searls

Google and Microsoft Look to Change Health Care is an interesting piece by Steve Lohr in today’s New York Times. (In the print edition the headline reads “Dr. Google and Dr. Microsoft”.) It begins, In politics, every serious candidate for the White House has a health care plan. So too in business, where the two [Read More →]

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“It’s all good”

August 11, 2007 — Doc Searls

That’s what Brad Fitzpatrick wrote in response to what Marc Canter wrote in response to what Owen Thomas wrote in Valleywag. I like schvitzatura’s comment on Marc’s blog: The true Web 2.0 Revolution was the rebuilding of the “walled garden” (softer, and with pretty little syndication bricks)…the technology exists but the business owners are still [Read More →]

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Unscrewing the car rental business

August 7, 2007 — Doc Searls

Ever since the VRM conversation began with the Identity conversation, we’ve looked to the car rental business as one that desperately needs unscrewing. This has come home to me in the last few weeks, while I’ve been on the road with the family, renting a bunch of cars. Three experiences stand out. First was when [Read More →]

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