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On-Line Advertising |
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| Just a few short years ago, before the dot-com crash, any Web site with lots of visitors was thought to be a money machine for advertisers. BlueMountain.com, a greeting card company with 11 million visitors a month, sold for $780 million, even though it had no revenues. But, shortly after the crash, you couldn’t give those eyeballs away, and until recently the industry consensus was that there was little if any value in advertising on the Internet. |
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This is Not Your Fat |
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| For the past three years, the living room has been the center of the digital gold rush. Consumers have fueled the rush as they upgraded to large-screen TVs, audio systems that promise Dolby “surround sound,” and DVD players that deliver super-crisp images. |
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Membership in Virtua |
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| Enormous increases in processing power and bandwidth are blurring the lines between the real world and the virtual one. As work, education, government, and entertainment have moved on-line, the barriers of space and time that formerly marked different parts of people’s lives have disappeared. Virtual work teams, telecommuting, long-distance learning, and electronic shopping for many have resulted in an “anything, anywhere, anytime” lifestyle, in which formerly distinct areas of people’s lives are now intertwined in cyberspace. People’s lives and their relationships with others are increasingly taking place in this electronic reality. As a result, digital technology has transformed the personal and public lives of most Americans over the past 15 years. |
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arnessing Co-opetiti |
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| In the ‘90s, businesses became increasingly aware of the ecological component of business strategy. Many began to look beyond the simplistic view of raw competition to embrace the concept of “economic symbiosis.” In the process, complexity and speed of change redefined business alliances. The Internet, ERP, and other tools have made the “extended enterprise” a reality, and leading-edge firms began to encourage mutualism. |
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