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Demographic Shift

May 19, 2008

Look­ing at recent events, it appears that we are at the tip­ping point of a sub­stan­tial demo­graphic shift in power. In this entry, I high­light my think­ing as to why I believe we’re there and some of the poten­tial impacts.

Building Buzz

March 21, 2006

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 Google intro­duces a new prod­uct, the buzz is high. For exam­ple, Apple recently intro­duced a $350 speaker and, while the reac­tion was more tepid than it […]

2005 Predictions: Keeping the Score

December 19, 2005

So it’s that time of the year. As is the case every year, I’m review­ing the pre­dic­tions I made last year and look­ing at the score. Voice Over IP The big sur­prise here was the acqui­si­tion game. When I made the pre­dic­tions last year, i thought that the acquir­ers would be larger tel­cos. How­ever, com­pa­nies like Ebay and Yahoo! have […]

NPR defining new Podcast strategy

August 14, 2005

I con­tacted NPR about some of their shows and adding pod­casts to them (the job of an evan­ge­list never stops.) How­ever, when I did, I did not expect I would end up get­ting some­thing that few oth­ers are aware of and maybe even a scoop: NPR is not renew­ing its con­tract with Audi­ble and is work­ing on a new strategy […]

DRM is not binary

January 21, 2005

Much of the dis­cus­sion over Dig­i­tal Rights Man­age­ment has focused on the extremes, offer­ing only and all or noth­ing approach. How­ever, my own recent expe­ri­ence is that there is much more gran­u­lar­ity to DRM than most peo­ple in the space want you to think. Fresh­ness vs. Con­ve­nience vs. Value When watch­ing movies, I have sev­eral options. I can Go […]

The Mac Mini platform

January 14, 2005

So it took me some time to fig­ure out what the Mac mini is about. Not so much what it is but what it’s impact in the long run may be and why and how it mat­ters. Size mat­ters My first thought, when I read the specs, was about the size of the device. My Shuttle […]

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 […]

HP LightScribe: More info

January 13, 2004

I’ve been get­ting a lot of feed­back regard­ing LightScribe, the new tech­nol­ogy for writ­ing labels on CDs and DVDs. First of all, a cor­rec­tion to the pre­vi­ous entry: In that entry, I said that LightScribe was a silk screen­ing tech­nol­ogy. Steve Loughran, who worked on the tech­nol­ogy, points out that It has been likened silk screen­ing, but it is def­i­nitely not: […]

RIAA lost the war

October 10, 2003

A new sur­vey just high­lighted that three quar­ters of teens feel that file shar­ing should be legal. This pretty much caps any chance for the music indus­try to sur­vive under their cur­rent model. The issue here is that if kids are per­ceiv­ing file shar­ing as some­thing that should be legal, they will prob­a­bly not grow out […]

Sony to Introduce Media-centric Gaming Box

May 28, 2003

EE Times and IGN report on the intro­duc­tion of a new gam­ing con­sole by Sony. Not, it’s not the much vaunted PS3, which is still sup­pos­edly on track for 2005 but some­thing much more inter­est­ing (at least to me): a PS2 gam­ing box that also includes a pro­gres­sive DVD player and recorder, a 120Gb Hard Drive, TV tuner, an […]