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Portals and Video — An Overview

January 6, 2006

So the big news com­ing out of the 2006 Con­sumer Elec­tronic Show (CES) is that all the por­tals are now try­ing to go into the video space. Microsoft, AOL, and Yahoo have already made their announce­ments (as has Apple, which is not pre­sent­ing at CES and is reserv­ing its sparks for next week’s Mac World) […]

2006 Predictions

December 28, 2005

Since 1997, It’s been a long run­ning game here at TNL.net cen­tral to make wild pre­dic­tions about the upcom­ing year that have turned out to be only some­what off (and, as always, I promise to revisit them around the end of next year to assess how far off base I was) so here goes this year’s edi­tion. Broadband […]

Reading the Google Tea Leaves

November 6, 2005

Every time Google comes out with a new prod­uct, many peo­ple talk about how great it is and high­light the prod­uct as a cat­e­gory killer. How­ever, it increas­ingly appears to me that Google is fill­ing up holes in their offer­ing, in an attempt to match its com­peti­tors. Based on that assump­tion, I started won­der­ing if Google had any […]

Doing the numbers on the AOL-WeblogsInc deal

October 6, 2005

AOL bought Weblogs inc., the two year old weblog net­work founded by Jason Cala­ca­nis and Brian Alvey, for a num­ber that is rumored to be any­where between $25 mil­lion and $40 mil­lion. In this process, Time Warner may be pro­vid­ing some ideas as to the val­u­a­tion of blogs by tra­di­tional media. The power of the network […]

Looking around Yahoo! 360

March 29, 2005

Like quite a few peo­ple, I got a chance to start play­ing with Yahoo 360° today (thanks Jeremy for the invi­ta­tion). Here’s a quick look at the ser­vice. Solid Inte­gra­tion The first thing that is appar­ent is that this is more than just a blog­ging pack­age or social net­work one. From the name to the way one’s web page is […]

2004 predictions: Recap

December 26, 2004

With the end of the year upon us, it’s time to do a quick san­ity check on how well I did on last year’s pre­dic­tions. Apple Scored well on the intro­duc­tion of the Apple mini, which rep­re­sents Apple’s entry into the lower end mar­ket. How­ever, no video iPod this year, only a photo one, leav­ing Apple far, far, […]

Blowing Bubbles

January 30, 2004

The new meme in the main­stream media is that the Inter­net is respon­si­ble for Dean’s implo­sion as a can­di­date. How­ever, with the ben­e­fit of hind­sight, was the Inter­net buzz of the 90s a real bub­ble or was the bub­ble some­thing not nec­es­sar­ily net-related? His­tor­i­cal per­spec­tive Every time a major change hap­pens in tech­nol­ogy, the stock mar­ket goes through […]

A Modest Browser Proposal

January 15, 2004

Robert Scoble men­tions on his blog that he had a meet­ing with the IE team and that they are solic­i­tat­ing feed­back from the blog com­mu­nity about what to include in the next update of the browser. While par­tic­u­lar fea­tures are nice, I’d like to sug­gest some­thing much more rad­i­cal: Switch to Mozilla. It may sound like […]

2004 Predictions

January 2, 2004

With a new year start­ing, it’s time to jump back in the water and make a few pre­dic­tions as to what’s com­ing next. I sus­pect 2004 is going to be a big year in tech­nol­ogy and here are some pre­dic­tions for the com­ing year. Apple Apple will come out with a new lower-powered, lower-cost ver­sion of the iPod. The idea here […]

Incrementalism

July 29, 2003

News.com reports that Bill Gates believes the promises of the dot­com era will be ful­filled. I tend to agree with the con­cept on its face. Wit­ness, for exam­ple, the recent devel­op­ment in the online gro­cery busi­ness. While Web­Van blew up in a multi-billion-dollar dis­as­ter, the mar­ket is now grow­ing, with tra­di­tional gro­cery chains adding this new feature […]