Archive for December, 2006
Competing with giants - Wikipedia’s got guts
If you ever worry about your competition getting ahead, you’re not alone. But how’s this for an example of how to believe in your own knowledge and capabilities? Wikipedia, the folks who’ve created the most extensive repository of human knowledge ever online, are setting their sights on beating Google and Yahoo at the search engine […]
Take a page from the Big Guys
Even if you’re not like Google–with pockets deep enough that you’re able to scout out and buy just about anybody out there whose stuff you take a shine to–you can still take a page out of their play book.
Google is out to terrorize Microsoft. First, they bought a program called Writely that “competes” with MS […]To attract good people, measure the right things
This Washington Post story points out that even in hospitals that get top “quality” ratings, rates of death are not significantly lower than those that get bottom rankings. And it’s safe to say this doesn’t just apply to hospitals.
The rage to measure things has been good in some ways, but like the quantum physicists who […]