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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 […]

Where Virtual and Physical meet

March 31, 2006

There has been a fair amount of talk recently about Sec­ond Life and mySpace, which has left me won­der­ing: what hap­pens when phys­i­cal and vir­tual space meet? What are the legal chal­lenges that those world will meet. In this entry, I try to ana­lyze what I sus­pect will become a big­ger issue down the road. Many of the ideas […]

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 […]

Adobe acquires Macromedia

April 18, 2005

This morning’s big news is that Macro­me­dia is being acquired by Adobe. Read­ing through the announce­ment, it is hard to say whether this will come to pass or not, as there are many monop­oly issues sur­round­ing this deal. Side by Side The biggest impact will prob­a­bly be felt on the low end of the cre­ative space. Here’s […]

2005 Predictions

January 3, 2005

Another year, another round of pre­dic­tions. As is now becom­ing cus­tom­ary on TNL.net, it’s time to project out the future year. As always, I’ll revisit those pre­dic­tions at the end of the year. Voice Over IP VoIP expe­ri­enced tremen­dous growth in 2004 but it was just the begin­ning. This year, much more will hap­pen in that space. Cable […]

Conventional Wisdom: The RNC Hits New York

September 5, 2004

All eyes in the United States were on New York city this week, as Repub­li­cans held their national con­ven­tion in my home­town. While I had ini­tially con­sid­ered skip­ping town, I ended up stay­ing in the city and vol­un­teer­ing with the New York chap­ter of the ACLU. Fol­low­ing is a quick sum­mary of some of the expe­ri­ences I’ve had […]

Modular by Design — Telephony

August 12, 2004

Another area where the mod­u­lar approach is start­ing to have an impact is in the tele­phone ser­vice arena. Tra­di­tion­ally, tele­phone ser­vice was offered on a land line and was divided into local ser­vice, long dis­tance, and extra fea­tures like caller ID, call for­ward­ing, etc… The model was pred­i­cated on the con­cept of one device (the phone) receiving […]

E-voting and the Open Source community

July 23, 2004

Today’s New York Times has an edi­to­r­ial that puts together a rough set of require­ments for E-voting machines: Phys­i­cal secu­rity for elec­tronic sys­tems Rig­or­ous test­ing of elec­tronic machines Prop­erly trained poll work­ers, and rapid-response teams on Elec­tion Day Pub­lic records at the precinct level The option to vote non-electronically Inde­pen­dent secu­rity experts Trans­parency in elec­tronic vot­ing Looking […]

Quick Notes on my Firenze trip

June 3, 2004

After a won­der­ful trip in Italy, I am now back in New York. As I men­tioned in my pre­vi­ous post, I was in Firenze, Italy for the past cou­ple of weeks, enjoy­ing great art, great wine and great food. Just some quick thoughts in no par­tic­u­lar order… Europe and the United States are now mov­ing for­ward on two dif­fer­ent paths […]

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 […]