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Jim Muttram

The industries of the future

The question Alec Ross set out to answer at the RSA today was: "If the last 25 years shaped by Internet, what comes next?" His book The Industries of the Future addresses the question more fully, but for the audience today he focussed on two examples:…

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Jim Muttram

Development Principles

At a recent offsite meeting with Bankers Almanac and Accuity, as I was listening to all the suggestions about developments we could make, I started to make a list of principles that I thought we ought to use to guide our technology plans. As it…

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Jim Muttram

The Great Paywall Experiment

I have been watching with interest the Times' experiment with paid content - or rather cutting off non-paying customers from stories. This chart from Alexa today tells the traffic story - stable traffic for The Guardian and The Telegraph and sharply declining traffice for The…

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Jim Muttram

The Power of Big

I remember quite vividly years ago failing to convince anyone in my circle of acquaintances in b2b that Linkedin would have a future. The problem was that, though they were getting quite popular, they didn't have an obvious business model and without revenue, it was…

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Jim Muttram

Personal domain site up and running

I'm pleasantly surprised to be able to report that my personal domain is now functioning with Posterous. It's not that it's particularly complicated to redirect DNS, it's just that one does it so rarely it's easy to get lost in the detail. Now to see…

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