Having soaked the Web-conference circuit for five solid years, Jupiter clients no longer just pay to go to splashy conferences. They’re paying upwards of $100,000 or more per year for the company’s product suite, Strategic Planning Services (SPS), some coveted “face time” with its leading analysts, and analytical tools such as its new Inflection Impact Index.
Michael is pulling a lot of strings around Genoa City. If his job as a lawyer doesn’t work out he could make a good living as a puppetmaster.
Michael seems to have taken up a work sideline, puppetmaster. He is currently pulling the strings on a number of Genoa City residents and storylines and is enjoying almost every minute of it. More »
This is the first, and possibly the most important, of the four steps. Learning the muscles of the body is imperative as you must understand what you’ll be training in the first place. Knowledge of the human muscular system is essential in allowing you to properly channel your weight training energies. More »
OVERSTATED: Cable Modems
They drive big mergers involving companies such as AT&T, Excite, and @Home, and have been touted as the savior of peasants toiling under oppressive 56K modems. And they get all the press. But are we getting carried away? More »
What’s so significant about this, you ask? Standards, folks. Anyone on the Internet who can access the World Wide Web (which is by far the fastest growing area of the Internet today) can access the FedEx site. Since they already know how to use the World Wide Web, no special training, technology or clumsy manuals are required. Point, click, type – aha, my package made it to Ulan Bator last Thursday. Consider it from the perspective of FedEx – for a very small cost, it can provide a new, strategic service to millions of its customers, for a fraction of the amount that it would been faced with had it chosen to build a closed, proprietary system. Brilliant, I must say.
In this column last month, I wrote that “the Internet is becoming the backbone to global commerce.” Some people took exception to that statement – not unusual, for the Internet, if anything, does manage to stir up controversy.
Yet, I believe that the Internet is becoming such a backbone in many different ways – let me explain another aspect of this issue.