Russell McGuire

When your industry is under attack from platform businesses, or when you are considering launching your own platform business, this is a great book to understand the dynamics of platform businesses and to learn from many case studies what has historically worked and not worked in the launch and growth of platform businesses.

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So, what are the strategic drivers that will enable the Connected Intelligence revolution to change the world? I believe that correlation of data, prediction of future outcomes, and trusted automation are the three key strategic drivers for this revolution.

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For those at risk of losing the ability to speak, voice banking technology provides an almost miraculous way for technology to recreate their unique voice when “speaking” for the rest of their lives.

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Having lots of data, being able to store it, and even doing amazing analysis using it is pretty cool, but what makes the Connected Intelligence revolution life changing are the many technologies that link that incredible intelligence with the real world.

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We’re guessing shrimp farming is not an industry where you would expect to find the Connected Intelligence revolution already making a big impact, but thanks to Cargill, it is!

Yesterday we talked about the rapidly expanding networked computing infrastructure to move and process data, and on Monday we talked about the massive amounts of data available from the Internet of Internets, but what can you do with that data in the cloud?

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The mandate Jeff Bezos issued in 2002 set the stage, and the architecture Amazon has built since then has positioned the company to be that big and agile company and has allowed it to grow into one of the most valuable companies in the world.

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Yesterday we talked about the massive amounts of data available from the Internet of Internets: unstructured information from the Content Web, relational correlations from the Social Web, real-time and interrupt-driven data from the Internet of Things, and structured data from the Internet of Data.

All these sources of data would be meaningless if we couldn’t (or couldn’t afford to) do anything with that flow of information. Thankfully, networks and nodes are enjoying tremendous advances providing always increasing performance and declining costs.

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Mobile operators have access to an incredible amount of information about their customers. Sprint is no exception. How did they make the most of this data?

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The Connected Intelligence revolution taps into the different “Internets” drawing unstructured information from the Content Web, relational correlations from the Social Web, real-time and interrupt-driven data from the Internet of Things, and structured data from the Internet of Data. This Internet of Internets is the fuel of the Connected Intelligence revolution.

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