GoogleBlog: At Google, we’re constantly trying to find new ways to organize the world’s information, including information relevant to our business.We set up a predictive market system inside the company.The markets were designed to forecast product launch dates, new office openings, and many other things of strategic importance to Google. So far, more than a thousand Googlers have bid on 146 events in 43 different subject areas (no payment is required to play).

An Excerpt : Most selling opportunities involve three parties–a seller, a buyer, and the seller’s competition, the crucial third party overlooked in traditional selling strategies.By shifting your focus to the relationship between your prospect and the competition, you can stop selling and start winning.Just as you protect your own accounts from competitors, current providers will try to stop you from winning business from their clients. No two objects can occupy the same space at the same time.

Physorg.com: Current market size = 580 Million - Expected to grow to 750 Million USD IN 2010. Lux research predictions : In general, Lux predicts the nanotechnology-tools market will see a compound annual growth rate of 11 percent to nearly $1.1 billion in 2010. However, growth will not prove even across each of its market segments Nanotechnologists use three kinds of instruments to experiment with matter on the nanometer scale. Inspection tools such as atomic force microscopes and electron microscopes visualize nanometer-sized objects and represent the most mature and widely used category of tools for emerging nanotechnology.

Hugh Macleod : So what’s responsible for the success if the iPod if it’s neither price, nor features? In a word: Marketing. Advertising. Advertising and marketing that is creating an emotional attachement. People choose the products they buy - apart from price - for three reasons, how they see themselves, how they want to see themselves or how they want to be seen. Successful advertising, in all its incarnations, including blogs, including WOM, is all about creating the emotional attachment.

Hugh Macleod : So what’s responsible for the success if the iPod if it’s neither price, nor features? In a word: Marketing. Advertising. Advertising and marketing that is creating an emotional attachement. People choose the products they buy - apart from price - for three reasons, how they see themselves, how they want to see themselves or how they want to be seen. Successful advertising, in all its incarnations, including blogs, including WOM, is all about creating the emotional attachment.