5 Fav Business and Strategy Post – August 7th

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As always my area of focus is the busi­ness man­age­ment and strat­egy arena while the sub­ject mat­ters will be insights, analy­sis of cur­rent events, or inter­views of interest.

While I’m not going into depth about the finds, I do encour­age you check them out if they sound inter­est­ing. The photo in the post is my favorite for the week from Flickr.

This week’s findings:

  1. Advanc­ing Loca­tion Tech­nol­ogy in a Frag­mented Mobile Envi­ron­ment - As devel­op­ers expand the fron­tiers of geolo­ca­tion tech­nol­ogy, us reg­u­lar folks are begin­ning ques­tion the value of oth­ers being able to deter­mine our pre­cise loca­tion.
  2. Why Your Phone Can’t Really Replace Your Credit Card — Wav­ing your cell­phone over a retail con­sole to buy just about any­thing might sound super cool, but Visa and Mas­ter­Card are so uni­ver­sal at this point that the bar­ri­ers to entry for any new pay­ment sys­tem are almost insur­mount­able.
  3. Urban Fruit-picking project aims to min­i­mize waste – Do you have a fruit tree on your prop­erty for dec­o­ra­tive pur­poses? If so, Not Far from the Tree might be knock­ing on your door to see if you would like to help the less for­tu­nate while putting a lit­tle money into your pocket; doing well by doing good was never so easy.
  4. Does Newsweek Have a Future as a Non­profit? - So Newsweek has been sold to a fab­u­lously wealthy angel, Sidney Har­man. Now what? I can’t help but won­der whether, over the next cou­ple of years, Har­man will covert Newsweek to a non­profit. It would fit both the strug­gling magazine’s finances and Harman’s inten­tions and cir­cum­stances.
  5. Con­ver­gence Cul­ture & Inno­va­tion – In this video Henry Jenk­ins, which out­lines some of the key points from his book Con­ver­gence Cul­ture. The par­tic­u­lar focus is on Trans­me­dia, which is the idea that we now have mul­ti­ple media chan­nels that we can use to tell our sto­ries.

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