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11 Disruptive & Innovative Businesses - CNN Money

An excellent list of 11 disruptive ideas that were compiled by CNN Money in Sep 2006. I know I'm a bit late in reporting it, but have no doubt that the ideas put forth will still make great reading.

Am providing a summary of the 11 disruptive business ideas.

1. The Disruptor: Netvibes
The Innovation: Highly customizable Web start pages
Co Name: Netvibes
Headquarters: Paris
CEO: Tariq Krim - Krim aims to stomp established portals with his easily customizable Web start pages.
The Disrupted: My Yahoo and other leading personalized portal pages

2. Google gets a new ad-versary - BlueLithium innovates online advertising by tracking user clickstreams.
The Disruptor: BlueLithium
The Innovation: Serving highly targeted ads on the Web by monitoring everyone's clickstreams
The Disrupted: Google and plain-vanilla CPM ad networks like ValueClick and 24/7 Real Media

3. Former Oracle exec: 'We will destroy Oracle' - Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff unleashes a new enterprise software technology.
The Disruptor: Salesforce.com
The Innovation: AppExchange 2.0 fills the gap between Web-based and traditional enterprise apps
The Disrupted: Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and other enterprise software incumbents

4. Coghead's DIY approach could trample the software giants
The software's user-friendly tools take the programmer out of building custom business apps.
The Disruptor: Coghead
The Innovation: Easy-to-use tools for building customized business applications

5. Goodbye Wi-Fi: wireless signals get maximized - Clearwire founder Craig McCaw shakes up the telecom industry again.
The Disruptor: Clearwire
The Innovation: National Wi-Max broadband wireless service
The Disrupted: Telecom and cable companies

6. Totally free and hassle-free phone calls - Jajah trumps traditional telecom and VOIP by allowing free calls without the accoutrements
The Disruptor: Jajah
The Innovation: Free phone calls over the Web with no downloads, headsets, or adapters
The Disrupted: Telecoms and existing VOIP services such as Skype

7. The anti-Tivo: Product placement beats the 30-second spot - NextMedium's founder Hamet Watt has figured out that automated product placement is the next big thing in advertising.
The Disruptor: NextMedium
The Innovation: Automated product placement in movies and TV shows through an online exchange
The Disrupted: The 30-second spot, producers of TV commercials, and advertising agencies

8. Gentlemen, stop your engines - EEStor's new automotive power source could eliminate the need for the combustion engine - and for oil.
The Disruptor: EEStor
The Innovation: A ceramic power source for electric cars that could blow away the combustion engine
The Disrupted: Oil companies and carmakers that don't climb aboard

9. Social networking for dollars - Zopa matches up borrowers and lenders in a peer-to-peer online lending service.
The Disruptor: Zopa
The Innovation: Peer-to-peer lending
The Disrupted: Traditional banks

10. Disrupting death
NanoLife Sciences generates buzz over its use of antiproton therapy to fight cancer.
The Disruptor: NanoLife Sciences
The Innovation: More precise cancer treatment that's less destructive to healthy tissue
The Disrupted: Conventional cancer treatments such as radiation and chemotherapy

11. Big Brother hits the highway - Applied Location's new satellite technology could ease congestion, lower auto insurance premiums and more.
The Disruptor: Applied Location
The Innovation: A satellite-based system for toll collection, traffic congestion management, and pay-as-you-drive insuranceThe Disrupted: Traffic congestion, toll collectors, parking meters, and RFID-based systems like E-ZPass

Please see the CNN Money Business 2.0 section on disruptors for more

Hope you find this list useful.