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The ‘Digital Human’ and the Semantic Web

My interview by JupiterMedia back in May is below. The original article can be found at http://www.semanticweb.com/article.php/3749916.
The ‘Digital Human’ and the Semantic Web
May 29, 2008
By Jennifer Zaino
No doubt about it, the technology behind the semantic web is truly disruptive. The challenge for companies will be to figure out how to provide applications based on it [...]

December 9th, 2008 | Rachel Yager | 0 comments | Continued
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Top 10 Global Brands: Economic Value of a Name

The Top 10 Global Brands as reported by BusinessWeek and Interbrand on September 2008 are:
1 COCA-COLA
2 IBM
3 MICROSOFT
4 GE
5 NOKIA
6 TOYOTA
7 INTEL
8 McDONALD’S
9 DISNEY
10 GOOGLE
BusinessWeek and Interbrand follow an interesting 3-step approach in measuring the “economic value” of a brand, as quoted below:
STEP ONE is calculating how much of a company’s total sales falls under [...]

September 22nd, 2008 | Rachel Yager | 0 comments | Continued
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Innovation Index – Most Innovative Companies (cont’d 2)

April is a favorite time to think about innovation… and it ain’t over yet.  
Two weeks ago, I gathered the Innovation Index – Most Innovative Companies.  I saw BusinessWeek just updated the 2008 list – The World’s Most Innovative Companies (read below). 
Not surprising, the consistent players in the top 10 are Apple, Google, and GE.  
The World’s Most Innovative Companies
Smart ideas for [...]

April 24th, 2008 | Rachel Yager | 0 comments | Continued
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Google’s Innovation DNA

Google seems to be the top choice for measuring up when it comes to innovation. This April, a number of magazines analyze the makeup of Google and its success factors.  In the blogosphere, Google’s innovation recipe (written by consultaglobal.com) gave a great summary of Harvard Business Review’s article (Reverse engineering Google’s innovation machine), and FastCompany’s article (The Faces and voices of the [...]

April 10th, 2008 | Rachel Yager | 0 comments | Continued
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Innovation Index – Most Innovative Companies

Tracking the innovation index from:

FastCompany (2008 March)
Fortune (2008 March)
Wired (2007 March)
BusinessWeek (2007 March)

See all the lists below.  Google, Apple, and GE are consistently appearing in the top 10.
FastCompany’s innovation index:
1 GOOGLE
2 APPLE
3 FACEBOOK
4 GE
5 IDEO
6 NIKE
7 NOKIA
8 ALIBABA
9 AMAZON
10 NINTENDO
11 PROCTER & GAMBLE
12 NEWS CORP.
13 AFFYMETRIX
14 DISNEY
15 SAMSUNG
16 METHOD
17 TARGET
18 HP
19 TESCO
20 AUSRA
21 TIMBERLAND
22 IBM
23 ARUP
24 ANOMALY
25 AUTODESK
26 HERMAN [...]

April 10th, 2008 | Rachel Yager | 1 comment | Continued