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10 Tech Deals that Defined the Decade — Part 2

December 9, 2009

Con­clud­ing our series on the tech deals that defined this first decade of the 21st cen­tury, here are my top 5.

10 Tech Deals that defined the decade — Part 1

December 8, 2009

What are the 10 tech­nol­ogy deals that define the decade between 2000 and 2010. Going in reverse count­ing order, here are num­ber 10 through 6.

2009 Predictions: Intro

January 1, 2009

Every year, I try to make some pre­dic­tions about where the year might go. How­ever, in the past I’ve done so in one sin­gle long post. This year, I’m tak­ing a dif­fer­ent approach, craft­ing mul­ti­ple posts out of my thoughts relat­ing to areas I’m inter­ested in.

Non-obvious winners and losers in Microsoft Yahoo Deal

February 1, 2008

The tech com­mu­nity is buzzing at the news that Microsoft has made an unso­licited US$44.6 bil­lion offer to acquire Yahoo and word is that Yahoo is actu­ally con­sid­er­ing it very seri­ously. The poten­tial merger has long been rumored and there are many rea­sons for which it could actu­ally make a lot of sense for both companies. […]

Blogger’s Code of Conduct: a Dissection

April 9, 2007

Due to the recent ker­fun­kle over the Kathy Sierra affair, Tim O’Reilly has now pro­posed a “blogger’s code of con­duct” (cov­ered with no less than a front page arti­cle in today’s New York Times.) In this entry, I will dis­sect the code and high­light why I think such a code is a bad idea. June 26th of this year will mark […]

2007 Predictions

January 1, 2007

This year marks the 10th anniver­sary edi­tion of the TNL.net pre­dic­tions for the year ahead. In past years, I’ve been bat­ting above 50 per­cent in terms of pre­dic­tions, except when it comes to nam­ing what will hap­pen with spe­cific com­pa­nies. The trends are gen­er­ally cor­rect (or in some case, early) and I always look at this […]

2006 Predictions — The Review

December 31, 2006

It’s been a tra­di­tion on TNL.net to have pre­dic­tions for the com­ing year and I will soon have a set out for 2007 but before I move on to that, I need to ful­fill the other tra­di­tion on TNL.net, which is to look at the pre­vi­ous year’s pre­dic­tions and rate how suc­cess­ful (or not) I was in pre­dict­ing the year ahead. […]

Top 10 Opportunities in Virtual Worlds

August 18, 2006

Con­tin­u­ing in the series of exploratory arti­cles about the vir­tual world phe­nom­e­non, I will now explore the oppor­tu­ni­ties in that mar­ket. I would con­tend that this space is just a nat­ural evo­lu­tion of the Inter­net model and that this phe­nom­e­non may rep­re­sent, in the long run, the next step evo­lu­tion in the web. So, with­out fur­ther ado, here’s […]

Future Tense — Intro

May 10, 2006

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 […]

Googling Netscape

February 1, 2006

The Google stock is get­ting hurt in after hours trad­ing as the company’s earn­ings dis­ap­pointed Wall Street. It was to be expected but now is the time for exec­u­tives at Google to look at his­tory and, hope­fully, not repeat it. The his­tory I am talk­ing about, in par­tic­u­lar, is that of a com­pany that was in a similar […]