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Why the Boo.comeback makes sense

November 28, 2006

There has been much dis­cus­sion lately, most of it neg­a­tive (you can read more com­ments on Tech­no­rati), about the come­back of boo.com and once again, I find myself on the oppo­site side of the shared wis­dom. Before I go into rea­sons as to why I think a come­back by Boo.com (a boo.comeback?) makes sense, let me first go into my […]

Economic Activity in Virtual Worlds

July 31, 2006

Over the last few months, I’ve been try­ing to get a bet­ter under­stand­ing of what is hap­pen­ing with the con­cept of vir­tual worlds. Let me go into more details as to why I think this phe­nom­e­non has some real poten­tials. In this first entry in a series, I will explore the eco­nomic activ­ity sur­round­ing this phe­nom­e­non. Size of the […]

Podcast Acceleration

April 27, 2005

Although I haven’t writ­ten about them, I’ve been qui­etly mon­i­tor­ing the pod­cast space. I am amazed by how quickly they’ve taken hold and today’s announce­ment by Infin­ity Broad­cast­ing that they were launch­ing KYOU Radio, a radio that’s dis­trib­ut­ing pod­casts seems to be the tip­ping point for that new tech­nol­ogy. For my read­ers who are not famil­iar with the […]

Internet in France 2002: An overview

August 19, 2002

Last week, I was in France for a short vaca­tion. Dur­ing that time, I got a chance to talk to peo­ple locally and get a bet­ter idea as to what was going on within the Inter­net mar­ket in France. Here are a few obser­va­tions based on my under­stand­ing of what is going on. Strong Growth France had been a leader in terms of […]

From Scandinavia With Love

September 17, 2000

I 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 are work­ing in the […]

The Privacy Police Strikes

July 17, 2000

Right now, in the US, two of the most pop­u­lar TV shows are Sur­vivor and Big Brother, Euro­pean imports where peo­ple are will­ingly liv­ing under the watch­ful eyes of TV cam­eras. Think of it as a real-life ver­sion of The Tru­man Show, where TV watch­ers gather to watch some peo­ple like them deal with life. The […]

Challenging WAP?

May 28, 2000

As reg­u­lar read­ers of this newslet­ter know, I’ve been look­ing a fair amount at how to get unteth­ered from the Inter­net lately. While I have played with a wire­less Palm and looked at WAP, there seemed to be some­thing miss­ing to the whole uncon­nected Inter­net issue. What I came to real­ize is that what works for a com­puter does not necessarily […]

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 […]

Wireless: A confusing Landscape

March 4, 2000

The lack of clear stan­dard­iza­tion and leader is imped­ing the progress of mobile inter­net technology.

Tristan Goes to Boo.com

August 5, 1999

Career Alert: I’m headed to Europe, to build the next gen­er­a­tion of e-commerce.

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