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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, […]

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 […]

The Coming Plague

August 27, 2003

Some­thing has been bug­ging me about the whole SoBig.F inci­dent and I believe that it has to do more with the self-congratulatory mes­sages from peo­ple who erad­i­cated most of it than from the virus itself. In a way, the virus is a clear rep­re­sen­ta­tion of where things are headed. Back in 2001, I heard about a virus called Hybris. The […]

The Elegant Hack

May 9, 2003

Paul Gra­ham pub­lished a great essay on the par­al­lels between hack­ers and painters. I find it funny that this would come up on the net this week as I was pon­der­ing some of the same things in the past few weeks, since I vis­ited the amaz­ing Da Vinci show at the Met­ro­pol­i­tan Museum of Art this year. I’d like to […]

Ebay to Acquire PayPal

July 8, 2002

Today, Ebay announced that it will acquire Pay­pal for $1.5 bil­lion in stock. The acqui­si­tion makes sense as it merges two suc­cess­ful Inter­net busi­nesses and turns the online auc­tion­eer into an end to end shop for online trans­ac­tion. Siz­ing up the busi­nesses Ebay is pri­mar­ily in the auc­tion busi­ness. Every­day, mil­lions of peo­ple buy and […]

Going wireless with the Palm V

April 22, 2000

For the past few weeks, I’ve been exper­i­ment­ing with OmniSky’s new wire­less ser­vice for the Palm V and I have to admit that it has affected my wire­less usage. Run­ning over AT&T’s CDPD net­work, the ser­vice allows Palm V users to get full access to the net at speeds of up to 19.2kbps. Priced at $300 for the […]

Trouble in RegistrarLand

March 24, 2000

Scal­a­bil­ity is the one thing too many star­tups ignore.

1994–2000: How Things Have Changed

December 31, 1999

Look­ing at the things that changed on the Inter­net between 1994 and 2000.

Volume, Volume, Volume

April 12, 1999

A new com­pany intro­duces a busi­ness model that is fully net-native and dif­fer­ent from pre­vi­ous approaches.