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Business Definition for: Hyper Time

  • the apparent fast pace and decentralized nature of Internet time

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Is Hyper-Inflation In Our Future?
Each week on my Sunday morning radio show, I get asked the same question about hyper-inflation: Is the massive amount of government spending going to cause it? If you're living on fixed-income securities, as so many seniors are, hyper-inflation is terrifying - everything will cost a lot...
Tags: Mark Zandi, Federal Reserve Board, Inflation, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance, Ilyce Glink
Blog posts 2009-06-02
Ever Hyper, Will New Yorkers Embrace Hyper-Local News?
That, my friend, is the question. This week brought us more exciting developments in the hyper-local space, one of Doctor Weir's main prescriptions for saving the news business. First, some context: As we reported in January, The New York Times teamed...
Tags: Advertisement, Corporate Communications, David Weir, Journalist, Marketing, NBC Universal Inc.
Blog posts 2009-03-06
NBC/Outside.in Launch Hyper-Local News Model
Welcome to the future. Fire up your browser, and go to this part of NBC New York's website. Do you see that window at the left labeled "Local Hot Spots?" Please click on one of the circles. I clicked on Houston Street, and it yielded 120 blog...
Tags: Advertisement, Advertising & Promotion, Blog, Blogging, David Weir, Internet, Marketing, Media Industry, Mobile, NBC Universal Inc.
Blog posts 2009-01-15
OakBook Puts Hyper-Local Model to Work
Around two and a half years ago, experienced journalists Priyanka Sharma-Sindhar and Alex Gronke decided to bring what was at that time a mostly abstract concept -- hyper-local news -- to Oakland, the sprawling metropolis at the other end of the San Francisco Bay Bridge. The pair...
Tags: Advertisement, Oakland, Web Site, Magazine, OakBook, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, David Weir
Blog posts 2009-07-13
Geo-Coded Twitter + Hyper-Local Media = CoolBiz Model
The San Francisco Street Food Festival today brought together "micro-entrepreneurs, informal food vendors and renowned chefs" in a celebration of street food and the entrepreneurial spirit, both of which are alive and thriving in this town, even in the midst of (in fact, partly due to) a prolonged recession. ...
Tags: Twitter Inc., Media, Advertising & Promotion, Food & Beverage, Marketing, Manufacturing, David Weir
Blog posts 2009-08-22
Inside the Examiner.com Purchase of NowPublic: Hyper-Local Media
While pondering today's news that the Denver-based Examiner.com, which aims to be the top local news network nationally and perhaps beyond, has purchased NowPublic, a tech-savvy, user-generated content pioneer based in Vancouver, I couldn't help wondering what William Randolph Hearst would think about all of this. Forgive...
Tags: Media, Hearst Corp., NowPublic, Corporate Law, Advertising & Promotion, Business Operations, Marketing, David Weir
Blog posts 2009-09-01
Reducing IT Deployment Time, Labor and Costs with Hyper-V and Dell
Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 with Hyper-V™ offers virtualization capabilities that can help IT organizations reduce server deployment time, cut labor requirements and lessen operating costs. In this white paper, learn how Dell provides a fully engineered, end-to-end, holistic virtualization solution that includes hardware, services, and support for Windows Server 2008...
Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Information Technology, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Storage, Hardware, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software
White papers 2009-09-22
NYTimes.com Goes Hyper-Local, Too
A couple weeks back, we reported on the deal between NBC and Outside.in to provide hyper-local coverage in New York and other cities where the network has affiliated stations. Today comes news that The New York Times has launched a similar deal with another of our favorite...
Tags: City, New York Times Co., Government, Business Structures, Blogging, Vertical Industries, Finance, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, David Weir
Blog posts 2009-01-30
Hyper-Local News Coming to Twitter?
Even as the collapse of the old media models seems to be accelerating, revealing systemic structural flaws that are catastrophic in nature, the outlines of a new media model are coming to life right before our eyes. Over and over, this past year, the potentials being unlocked...
Tags: Twitter, News, Strategy, Management, David Weir
Blog posts 2009-03-08
S&P: Hyper Exuberance Brings 66% Chance of New Lows Ahead
While very impressive, the stock market’s rate of advance is cause for concern rather than a Bullish argument. You have to look all the way back to the move off of the final low in 1932 to find a rally that advanced faster than the rate of the current...
Tags: US Market, Christopher Gurkovic
External links 2009-08-25
Realtors Issue Call To Action to Extend $8,000 First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit
When the going gets tough, the National Association of Realtors contacts its million-plus members and encourages them to get going. That's what happened yesterday, as the Realtors put up a video encouraging its member real estate agents and brokers to contact their Congressional representatives demanding an extension...
Tags: Tax Credit, Real Estate, Personal Finance, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance, Ilyce Glink
Blog posts 2009-09-16
Erin go blah Paul Haggis reheats an Irish stew of stereotypes in 'The Black Donnellys'.(Time Out!)
Byline: Ted Cox Daily Herald TV/Radio Columnist "The Irish have always been victims of negative stereotyping," says a character in "The Black Donnellys." And then a drunken barroom brawl breaks out - in slow motion, no less - as if to illustrate...
Tags: NBC Universal Inc., TVs
Research articles 2007-02-23
BigStar.com Launches Movie Trailer Magazine On Hyper CD-R-
Entertainment, Movie, Film, Finance, Internet, E-Commerce and Technology Editors NEW YORK--ENTERTAINMENT WIRE--Jan. 20, 2000 New Product Offers Real-Time Broadcast-Quality Movie Trailers to Movie Lovers Without High-Speed Modems BigStar Entertainment (Nasdaq: BGST), which operates www.bigstar.com, the leading movie site on the Web according to Entertainment Weekly,...
Tags: CD-R, disc, entertainment, movie, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc.
Research articles 2000-01-20
The Time Has Come for Pay-to-Enable-Features Computer Devices
Kevin Lawton submits: There is much chatter about the hyper-commoditization of computer devices causing a "race to the bottom." Additionally, the confluence of smartphone and mobile PC markets has not only the potential to disrupt either market, but also adds new hardware requirements to the traditional mobile PC market which...
Tags: Hardware, Chip, Kevin Lawton, Intel Corp.
External links 2009-01-09
It's Time to Let Go of All That
There's a lot of noise out there -- offline and on -- about how to "save" newspapers and other crumbling media institutions, but precious little signal to it all. A U.S Senator is calling for allowing newspapers to attain non-profit status, under which...
Tags: Media Company, Newspaper, Media, Exec, Tech People, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, David Weir
Blog posts 2009-03-24
Gannett Lays off 1,400; Time for a G.I. Bill for Journalists?
Gannett Co. is axing 1,400 newspaper jobs. Fitz & Jen published an internal memo that explains, "Unfortunately, we must take these steps because the advertising environment remains challenged. There have been some promising signs of a recovery, but the reality is the improvements are not broad-based and the economy continues...
Tags: Journalist, Advertisement, Environment, Blog, Gannett Co. Inc., Blogging, Internet, David Weir
Blog posts 2009-07-02
The 12 Ways Twitter Will Transform the Media Business
There's an excellent resource for the business-minded person called 24/7 Wall Street, and earlier this week the site published perhaps the most insightful analysis of Twitter I've seen to date, under the title "The Ten Ways Twitter Will Permanently Change American Business," by Douglas A, McIntyre. This...
Tags: Twitter, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing Research, Marketing, David Weir
Blog posts 2009-05-29
Red Hat, Microsoft deliver on virtualization interop promises
It's more than notable that Red Hat and Microsoft have delivered on some aspects of their cross certification virtualization promises. Here's what was delivered today (verbatim, from the Red Hat press release), following pledges of both companies last February: Validation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, using the Kernel-based Virtual...
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Red Hat Inc., Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V
News items 2009-10-07
Newspapers Lose Out As MSNBC.com Snaps Up EveryBlock
(Note: This post has been updated. In the earlier version I neglected to clarify that EveryBlock was bought by MSNBC.com, not MSNBC.-- DW) Over a decade ago now, the newspaper industry had its "Craigslist moment," when the profitable classified ad piece of its business model started to...
Tags: Team, Advertisement, Industry, MSNBC, EveryBlock, Newspaper Industry, Team Management, Strategy, Management, David Weir
Blog posts 2009-08-20
Examiner.com Set to Expand into Canada
Back when the Examiner.com acquired Vancouver-based NowPublic, which publishes user-generated-content from a variety of locations around the world, it seemed obvious that the Denver-based company would soon be expanding into Canadian markets. In fact, Examiner.com CEO Rick Blair told me as much at the time. ...
Tags: Vancouver, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, David Weir
Blog posts 2009-10-27
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