Almost - Not Quite

Almost – not quite
by Natasha Churchward
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KODAK
For not getting the digital big picture
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1970s
1980s
Kodak invents the digital camera.
Kodak produces the first Megapixel sensor.
The transition to digital thinking pretty much ends here.

XEROX
Because, you know, photocopies are the next big thing
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Xerox founds Xerox Parc in
Palo Alto, CA.
1970
1981
Xerox releases the Xerox Star: the first workstation featuring bitmapped display, window-based GUI, mouse, Ethernet networking, file servers, print servers and e-mail.
Today, xerox is used as a synonym for photocopy.

NEWS CORP
MySpace is your space, isn’t it?
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News Corp buys MySpace for $580m.
July 2005
June 2006
July 2009
MySpace provides over 35% of world web traffic to websites in Entertainment-Multimedia.
MySpace provides slightly more than 9% of traffic to websites in Entertainment-Multimedia. The company cuts 30% of its staff.

YAHOO!
Bypassing the Social Web
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January 1999
October 26, 2009
July, 2009
Yahoo! buys GeoCitiesin a stock deal worth about $3.56 billion and $1 billion in options.
Facebook’s 2009 Revenue to Top $500 Million.
GeoCities is closing.

NOKIA
For missing the call
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Nokia releases the N-Gage, a mobile phone and mobile game device.
October 2003
May 26 2009
April 2009
November 2005
Aiming to sell 6 million units, 2 million are sold to date.
Nokia launches Ovi Store. On launch day the site appears to be down most of the time.
Apple announces more than 1 billion iPhone apps have been downloaded after 9 months since launch of its platform.

IBM
For living in a black & white world for too long

1943
”I think there is a world market for about 5 computers“
attributed to Thomas J. Watson (Chairman of the Board of IBM)
1981
IBM introduces the IBM PC.
December 2004
IBM sells its PC division to China-based Lenovo.
2008
The number of computers in use in the world is estimated to be about 1 billion.

GOOGLE
For not listening to the (real) time passing
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October 2007
January 2009
Jaiku goes open source, its users have long gone.
Google buys Finnish company Jaiku, a micro-blogging startup.
July 2009
Twitter’s worldwide unique users: 51 million.

Thank You
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