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From Euro to e-uro

euros via aranjuez1404 on flickr

December 11, 2011

In the Euro fail­ure, a poten­tial chance for an all-digital currency.

Coins to QQ at Web 2.0

September 19, 2008

From barter to grain to metal and paper, and even­tu­ally to elec­tronic money, cur­rency has a long his­tory. In this talk, pre­sented at the Web 2.0 Expo con­fer­ence, I give a quick sum­mary of that his­tory and present how more recent trends could high­light some hypo­thet­i­cal futures for currency.

Boo.com Goes Bust

May 19, 2000

As many of you may have heard already, Boo, the com­pany for which I used to work, has closed its doors. I’ve been look­ing at the press cov­er­age and it seems that some of the cov­er­age does not work out. For starters, Boo.com’s fail­ure is not an exam­ple of why B2C E-commerce will fail, it’s an example […]