Cisco Reaching Past the Router

A New Blueprint for Cisco:

(Peter Burrows, BusinessWeek) “Now, Ratzlaff, 47, Cisco’s director of user experience, hopes to borrow a page from his old employer. He and his dozen-or-so staffers have created a blueprint for how Cisco’s products should work together for customers. With the support of CEO John Chambers and other top brass, they are trying to impose it on the San Jose company.”

Google Apps Take a Run at Microsoft

(John Pallatto, eWeek) “After months of testing, Google is ready to see whether businesses large and small are ready to pay to use its online suite of basic business applications, including spreadsheets, e-mail, word processing, calendars and instant messaging…”

Google Apps Premier Edition Takes Aim at the Enterprise

Business 2.0 Gives us their top 25 in 2007

(Allen Stern, Center Networks) “Business 2.0 has a nice article today highlighting 25 startups that will “strike gold” in 2007. It’s a lot of clicking to view them all, so here are direct links to all 25…”

Business 2.0: 25 startups to watch in 2007 – CenterNetworks – News, Reviews, Insights and Interviews

Apple TV or Mac Mini

(Brady Forrest, O’Reilly radar) “Last week Apple didn’t just release the iPhone. They also released Apple TV, a single use appliance that allows you to play music, watch movies and view your pictures from your home PCs or Macs. When I saw it my first thought was how this would stack up compared to the Mac Mini as a multimedia device. Both are small, both have iTunes — what are the exact trade-offs? Luckily, the Apple Blog has written up a great side-by-side comparison of the Mac Mini and the Apple TV…”

O’Reilly Radar > Apple Tv or Mac Mini

Deloitte’s Technology Predictions for 2007

(www.Deloitte.com) “What’s going to happen in the Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) sector in 2007? What will be the impact of convergence? Will media make good on the opportunities in the Chinese market? How will the net neutrality debate be resolved? All of these issues are discussed in Predictions 2007—three reports outlining the critical trends that will influence the global TMT market in 2007…”

TMT Trends: Predictions 2007 – Technology, Media & Telecommunications – Article – Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu

Google Ads in Video Games

(centernetworks) “Nick and Kevin at the Wall Street Journal (sub required) have a lengthy article today about the possibility of Google acquiring Adscape, a company which places ads inside video games. Google noted that a deal could be reached as early as next week…”

Google’s Next Ad Frontier May Be Inside Videogames, Google looking to acquire Adscape – CenterNetworks – News, Reviews, Insights and Interviews

Is MySpace banning Widgets?

(Michael Arrington, TechCrunch) “There was a mysterious outage on MySpace this morning. It lasted just 2.5 hours, and the site itself performed mostly as it should. All that happened was this: Anyone trying to add a Flash widget to the site, or show an image via an inserted link, or otherwise embed any sort of code, couldn’t do it. Existing widgets worked fine, but none could be added. And if a MySpace user edited their page, any existing embedded code produced an error…”

MySpace is Getting a Little Testy

NBC Choking? Are you sure?

(Michael Arrington, TechCrunch) “I’ve been paying a lot of attention to the signals NBC is giving to the market around their IPTV and social networking plans. Most of the other players have fallen into place – Fox with MySpace, CBS is in bed with YouTube, Viacom looks to be partnering with Tagworld, etc. Everyone except NBC is at least experimenting with online TV in other ways, too.

NBC seems to be choking, frozen like a deer in headlights. They were close to acquiring Tribe but backed out. A VP wrote a blog post about their strategy, admitting they were late to the game, and then deleted it. I imagine execs at NBC meeting regularly and screaming a lot for someone to just figure this out and do something…”

The Entrenched Player Dilemma/Opportunity

Say Hello to iJigg

(Michael Arrington, TechCrunch) “Think Digg for music, plus lots of Flash functionality. Songs are presented on the home page and can be “jigged” by members. Songs can also be embedded into web pages (I’ve done so with one of the popular songs below), commented on, etc. Songs are tagged for easy browsing, and there are most popular and recently posted areas as well…”

Jigg That Music

What Will Jobs be Bringing to MacWorld?

(Scott Ferguson, eWeek.com) “…Industry watchers say the annual event may bring word of an improved, full-screen iPod and an Apple cell phone compatible with iTunes.

Each year, in the weeks leading to Apple Computer’s Macworld Expo in San Francisco, the rumors and speculation begin circulating about what CEO Steve Jobs and his team will unveil during the major keynote address.This year is no exception…”

Analysts: Expect iTV, Leopard News at Macworld