Book review of books within social media domain, January 04, 2009:
I maintain three blogs, and this blog has not got much attention as I have been focusing on getting the content right in all three blogs. They are Global Software Business, which focuses on topics around software business including software business models and such.Dr. Petri I. Salonen’s Publications and Book Reviews is going to be…
Read More..Status of new book project for the Finnish marketplace
This is my second book to the Finnish marketplace. My first book, Onnistu suuressa maailmassa was published in December 2007 and I hope that this second book will be written by Christmas 2008 and maybe published first quarter of 2009.
Read More..Bookreview of online communities and such
I have been deep down in investigating online communities and how to make money with them. I think the book from David Silver Smart Start-ups is well written and includes examples of different types of online communities and how people could make some money. Another one is from Tomi T. Ahonen and Alan Moore Communities…
Read More..Experiences of Harvard Business School by a student: Ahead of the Curve by Philip Delves Broughton
I have always been fascinated about university campuses, whether it is my own school (Helsinki School of Economics) or University of Paris, Sorbonne. These campuses has a magic into it and I find my own internal piece among the mostly beautiful buildings that they have. A British journalist Philip Delves Broughton has documented his experiences…
Read More..Professor Randy Pausch has died in pancreatic cancer
When I woke up this morning, I read from Wall Street Journal that Professor Randy Pausch from Carnegie Mellon University has passed away 04.00 AM am local time in his own house. Professor Randy Pausch made a decision to document as much as he could of his final months so he could leave a legacy…
Read More..I have created a new blog for global software business
Blogging is like writing a book. You are trying to figure out what your audience will be and this blog http://www.telluspublications.com/ was intially built to review books and other interesting things in my own core competence areas. However, my background is heavy in software development and my passion is to work with ISV’s around the…
Read More..Randy Pausch and his battle of pancreatic cancer
I read about Randy Pausch, Computer Science Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, who has been struck with terminal pancreatic cancer. Professor Pausch is a very well known and liked lecturer that you can see from the included video clips from Youtube.comI immediately googled the lecture from youtube.com and ordered his book as physical copy and…
Read More..Ten Blogs You Should Be Reading DAILY
The countless amount of blogs in the cyberspace makes our lives difficult but PCMag.com has listed the top then that everybody should track on a regular basis. We live in a world with too many blogs and news channels and we try to find ways to list them in a way that we can track…
Read More..Tech job moving abroad? Offshore yourself with it!
If your job is moving overseas, maybe you should move with it. Many American IT workers have looked with increasing worry as programming and datacenter jobs shifted to India, China, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere, with companies seeking cheap labor and Internet connectivity making offshoring a plausible business option. I like the approach that this article…
Read More..The New Age of Innovation by management Guru C.K. Prahlad.
A new book from the Bottom of the Pyramid guru lays out the new landscape of business, driven by consumer co-creation and service customization. Yet another very interesting book from Prahlad and I just purchased using my Amazon.com Kindle device. This way I can have my hundreds of books with me whereever I go in…
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