A Dark Cloud
Originally published on July 27, 2009If an external party can control when or how you can use a device or decide on what you can or cannot see, or select what programs you can install on it, are you still owning it?
Is Ownership Passé?
Originally published on May 4, 2009In this first piece in a series, I look at ownership vs. renting, the result of a number of observations throughout the last few months.
2009 Predictions: Hardware
Originally published on January 5, 2009Where I try to read the tea leaves and divine what new gadgets will be coming this year and the trends they will engender.
Microsoft Loves RSS
Originally published on June 23, 2005The blogoshpere is buzzing about Microsoft’s announced support for RSS. Here’s a quick history of how they got there, and the good and bad on what they are adding to the standard. How we got there? Microsoft is not really a new player in the syndication space. With the release of Internet Explorer 4.0, in [...]
Paid Content on a tiered structure
Originally published on April 9, 2003Reports that AT&T is planning on introducing a pre-paid card for online content show some potential new developments in the online space. If we were to follow the model further, we could see something new developing, with companies offering a basket of content for a fixed price. For example, imagine you would like to get [...]
Blog, Internet, and Marketing
Originally published on March 7, 2003For the past week, I’ve been posting a fair amount about the raging cow and about establishing trust in a market where marketers are trying to get in side by side with other bloggers. Chris Pirillo makes some good points about the raging cow campaign: Is it so bad if they are trying to engage [...]
Memo to Media Execs
Originally published on February 28, 2003There’s an interesting Michael Wolff piece in New York about the declining value of content. (Disclaimer: I used to work for Michael in the early 90s) While I generally agree with the concept that content is becoming more widespread and that there is an increase in the amount of content being produced, I fundamentally disagree [...]
Lack of synergy
Originally published on February 12, 2003According to an article in the Washington Post, AOL is loosing market share to Road-Runner. The interesting thing is that both companies are owned by AOL-Time-Warner but are not playing together. This represents a huge problem for the company as it is the most visible area of potential synergy between AOL and Time-Warner. Here’s a [...]
Internet.com Acquires Earthweb’s content
Originally published on December 27, 2000Today, Earthweb and Internet.com announced that Internet.com was acquiring all of Earthweb’s content properties. For me, it’s an interesting announcement because I was involved in the building of both properties. When I left Internet.com in 1996 and went to Earthweb, I was in charge of building Earthweb’s properties into something competitive with Internet.com. At the [...]
From Scandinavia With Love
Originally published on September 17, 2000I was recently speaking at a conference called Escandinavia 2000, which covered the state of the Internet in Scandinavia. During that conference, I had a chance to speak to a number of people about the state of wireless in the Scandinavian countries. Here’s what I’ve learned and how it can help those of you who [...]
