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Is "What Would Google Do?" the right question?

26 August 2009 , , , , ,
The title of Jeff Jarvis’s What Would Google Do? book is a deliberate echo of the American phrase, “What would Jesus do?” Whilst for Christians asking what Jesus would do in particular situations makes sense, does Google have a similar role of authority over everyone’s business lives for Jeff Jarvis’s question to make sense? At [...]

Fortune's fastest growing companies: internet largely absent

18 August 2009 ,
The latest Fortune 500 listings of the fastest growing, most profitable, biggest and so on American companies is out. What’s striking is that whilst business books telling us all about how the future is in the online world, the online world gets only a brief look in in these lists. Take the 20 fastest growing [...]