I was recently invited by Jason Calacanis to A Small World, the uber-exclusive social network (don’t ask for invitations, it’s a privilege I haven’t been granted since I’m a newcomer there). This has prompted me to think about a number of issues relating to social networks in general. In this entry, I will try to [...]
A few weeks ago, the major TV networks held several events catering to advertising, expecting to sell some advertising for the fall TV season. This period, called the upfronts, is generally a good time for TV stations to attempt to scare advertisers into paying a lot of money for advertising, riding on the fear that [...]
For the past few months, in the United States, a fight has been brewing over how the pipes that control the Internet would be ruled. On one side, activists and large Internet companies felt that access to the Internet should be neutral and that all sites should be accessed in the same fashion. On the [...]
What is interesting here is that a lot of the trends we will see over the next few years are about blurring distinctions between online and offline world. I used to joke around that I lived online and went to the real world just for power sources but, as a new generation that considers online [...]
But so far, my whole focus in this series of articles has been on technology. However, technology itself is undergoing a radical shift, and I would venture to say that we are now entering a new era of cybernetics.
Tim O’reilly, in his description of Web 2.0 said that
The central principle behind the success of the [...]
Today, internet technology is largely seen as centering around the concept of websites and a few applications that are network aware. However, when combined with Moore’s law, which dictates that processor roughly double in speed every 24 months, and its economic corollary, which means that the price of processor will drop along similar lines, the [...]
Google returns 0 results for this at the time I’m writing this entry. The concept of IPzation, in my view, is that everything electronic interaction is moving to a level where the communication will happen over an Internet Protocol layer. We are already starting to see the beginning of that phenomenon with Voice Over IP, [...]
Readers of this site know that I’m a proponent of living an always connected lifestyle. My previous views on the subjects looked to applications that lived partly on the edge of the network and partly off it, a class of applications I called Hybrid Computing. As broadband access to the net becomes more prevalent, those [...]
With TNL.net down for most of the last month, I’ve been lax in creating new entries. However, being away gave me some perspective and I think that the forest is now becoming clearer. In this entry, I reflect on trends that will affect us over the next decade.
Core Components
One of my favorite quotes about the [...]
I had to check the date on the article when I saw the announcement that Microsoft was going to provide some level of support for Linux. However, this is not an April Fool’s Day joke; it’s the real thing and has serious implications.
In order to understand the impact, one has to understand how Microsoft used [...]
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