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Waiting

11th
2009
2

In 1931, a shin­ning bea­con of hope rose above the city when the city needed it most. After eight years, WE are still wait­ing for ours.

Federal Budget 2010

7th
2008
0

On a new site designed as part of the tran­si­tion into office, president-elect Barack Obama asks for some ideas, effec­tively try­ing to use the inter­net cre­ated a gov­ern­ment run “for the peo­ple, by the peo­ple, and of the peo­ple.” Here are some I had around the budget…

Coins to QQ at Web 2.0

19th
2008
2

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.

Non-obvious winners and losers in Microsoft Yahoo Deal

1st
2008
12

The tech com­mu­nity is buzzing at the news that Microsoft has made an unso­licited US$44.6 bil­lion offer to acquire Yahoo and word is that Yahoo is actu­ally con­sid­er­ing it very […]

Transition time

27th
2007
12

Yes, it has been quiet on the blog. Too quiet in fact and here is some back­ground infor­ma­tion as to why and what’s being done about it. Back­ground “Peo­ple are […]

Building Buzz

21st
2006
1

Apple has it. Google has it. Microsoft fails at it. Yahoo! some­times does and some­times doesn’t. What I am talk­ing about is buzz and cool­ness. It seems every time Apple or […]