Hello guys, there are two super interesting articles this week in the Economist. Both articles are on www.economist.com and if you do not have online subscription, you can read it on my own blog :
Future of Digital Media & Entertainment
(NDLR: shame on me, this blog is not updated at all)
The first article is about Yahoo! and its growth which seems to slow down. The article talks about the strategic moves that have been made (or more precisdely have not been made) and notes that the competitors have been much more agressive and innovative in the last few years. They kind of blame Terry Semel (the actual CEO) for being either too cautious or waiting too long for making the strategic aquisitions the company needs for growing (for instance it lost the MySpace deal to News Corp and then lost a second time the advertising deal with MySpace to Google).
The second article is about Second Life, and is really really interesting. Basically they are saying that Second Life is kind of the next step after the PC and the Internet (not less). The point is that virtual worlds have the ability to change completly user-interface and the way people interact and do things online (it is a big deal since user interface draw huge constraints on applications and services). I personnaly experienced second life and loved it. Now dream of a computer that you would turn directly on to your favorite Virtual World like Second Life and from there you would be able to do everything: go to the office, share documents, go to the bank, meet people, study, bur groceries etc. Like the Internet, but completely 3D and social (you bang into your friends all the time). Isn't that cool?
Cheers,
Sebastien
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