Category Archives: Disruption

Disruption: Technology or Business Model? Definitively, not Laws

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Kindle books have now overtaken paperback books as the most popular format on Amazon.com, according to the quarterly results just released. For every 100 paperback sold, Amazon sold 115 Kindle books For every 100 hardcover sold, Amazon sold 300 Kindle … Continue reading →

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Mark Zuckerberg: Social is THE Feature

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, predicts that “social” will rethink industries such as TV, news, music and film. The clip is a bit long.This is my summary of his key points: Facebook started their photo product after big names like … Continue reading →

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[Chart] Drop in Pay TV: recession or cord-cutters?

Posted on August 26, 2010 by Jose Miguel Cansado

It is the first time ever that Pay TV loses subscribers quarter on a quarter, as the Business Insider chart shows. A previous post on “spotting disruption before it happens” shows the 3 phases that can be spotted before a … Continue reading →

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[Views] Spotting Disruption Before It Happens

Posted on May 6, 2010 by Jose Miguel Cansado

We can call it the “delayed” disruption. It has 3 phases, that can be illustrated in the chart above showing the decline of postal mail volume. 1. Hyped Prediction. End of 90s with the Internet boom, people predict that the … Continue reading →

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A few days before personal computing changes forever

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Jose Miguel Cansado

A few days before the iPad is out I am ready to make my bet. It  will be a revolution. The iPhone was a revolution for mobile handsets.  Nokia laughed at Apple when they launched a new phone in what … Continue reading →

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Media is Changing

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Internet and the Digital Revolution has transformed Media… and this is just starting. If not convinced, see the clip above.

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I Love Music, but I Hate CDs

Posted on May 5, 2009 by Jose Miguel Cansado

I guess that by now, all music labels have already realized that music downloads and subscriptions are the only way forward to distribute music. CDs are dead, and rightly so. Maybe because we just finished unpacking the shipment from KL … Continue reading →

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Desktops Say Bye to Digital Home

Posted on January 23, 2009 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Laptops are killing the Desktop PC at home as they already did in the office. It is more and more common that each member of a family has his/her own laptop. Specially now that netbooks become an affordable choice for … Continue reading →

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Blue-ray Won the Battle but Lost the War

Posted on January 9, 2009 by Jose Miguel Cansado

It is already one year since Sony signed with the four big movie studios and knocked out Toshiba in the war for the high-definition video format. Seagate’s CEO said then “Blue-ray won the battle but lost the war”, referring to … Continue reading →

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Modular Data Centers: Containers for Clouds

Posted on December 4, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Mike Manos, Microsoft Data Center Chief, has unveiled in his blog the design of future “Generation 4″ Microsoft data centers. With the mission to provide massive easy-to-scale computing infrastructure to power the Cloud, Microsoft envisions pre-assembled containers equipped with a … Continue reading →

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