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2009 Predictions: Hardware

January 5, 2009

Where I try to read the tea leaves and divine what new gad­gets will be com­ing this year and the trends they will engender.

Ruthless Efficiencies

July 8, 2006

As read­ers of this site know, I strongly believe that we are now in the mid­dle of a major over­all shift in eco­nomic trend that hasn’t been seen since the intro­duc­tion of the paper bill in late 1700s eng­land. Seen under this lens, I’m start­ing to think that there may be some truths to the claims that […]

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, […]

Blowing Bubbles

January 30, 2004

The new meme in the main­stream media is that the Inter­net is respon­si­ble for Dean’s implo­sion as a can­di­date. How­ever, with the ben­e­fit of hind­sight, was the Inter­net buzz of the 90s a real bub­ble or was the bub­ble some­thing not nec­es­sar­ily net-related? His­tor­i­cal per­spec­tive Every time a major change hap­pens in tech­nol­ogy, the stock mar­ket goes through […]

Dean Campaign names internet brain trust

September 30, 2003

In yet another change high­light­ing the Inter­net influ­ence on pol­i­tics, the Dean cam­paign has unveiled a set of Inter­net prin­ci­ples and named a very impres­sive slate of net advis­ers. I hope that this will help the group for­mu­late a set of poli­cies relat­ing to tech­nol­ogy and make tech­nol­ogy in gen­eral and the net in par­tic­u­lar an issue during […]

Blog, Internet, and Marketing

March 7, 2003

For the past week, I’ve been post­ing a fair amount about the rag­ing cow and about estab­lish­ing trust in a mar­ket where mar­keters are try­ing to get in side by side with other blog­gers. Chris Pir­illo makes some good points about the rag­ing cow cam­paign: Is it so bad if they are try­ing to engage us in […]

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 […]

2000 Tech Politics

July 31, 2000

It’s elec­tion sea­son in the United States. This week, the Repub­li­can party is hold­ing its con­ven­tion, which will be fol­lowed by the democ­rats’ in the next cou­ple of week. But the big ques­tion to those of us who work in the Inter­net field has been, what do those guys stand for in terms of the […]

Trouble in RegistrarLand

March 24, 2000

Scal­a­bil­ity is the one thing too many star­tups ignore.

Hybrid Computing

February 10, 2000

Appli­ca­tions that aug­ment their capa­bil­i­ties when con­nected to the Inter­net are the wave of the future.