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The revolution will be televised

October 9, 2010

While many peo­ple have turned their atten­tion from the PC to mobile, it seems the bleed­ing edge of tech­nol­ogy is now mov­ing to television.

2007 Predictions

January 1, 2007

This year marks the 10th anniver­sary edi­tion of the TNL.net pre­dic­tions for the year ahead. In past years, I’ve been bat­ting above 50 per­cent in terms of pre­dic­tions, except when it comes to nam­ing what will hap­pen with spe­cific com­pa­nies. The trends are gen­er­ally cor­rect (or in some case, early) and I always look at this […]

No Bubble 2.0 yet

October 9, 2006

In which I ana­lyze sev­eral web 2.0 deals to iden­tify whether web acqui­si­tions are over-priced.

Apple Aims for the Living Room

September 12, 2006

Apple launches a frontal attack on your liv­ing room.

Economic Activity in Virtual Worlds

July 31, 2006

Over the last few months, I’ve been try­ing to get a bet­ter under­stand­ing of what is hap­pen­ing with the con­cept of vir­tual worlds. Let me go into more details as to why I think this phe­nom­e­non has some real poten­tials. In this first entry in a series, I will explore the eco­nomic activ­ity sur­round­ing this phe­nom­e­non. Size of the […]

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 […]

Portals and Video — An Overview

January 6, 2006

So the big news com­ing out of the 2006 Con­sumer Elec­tronic Show (CES) is that all the por­tals are now try­ing to go into the video space. Microsoft, AOL, and Yahoo have already made their announce­ments (as has Apple, which is not pre­sent­ing at CES and is reserv­ing its sparks for next week’s Mac World) […]

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 […]

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 […]

Why Apple should consider Wintel

November 19, 2004

Last week, two major events showed the decreas­ing power of the Oper­at­ing Sys­tem: the first one was the release of Fire­fox and the sec­ond was the release of Kon­fab­u­la­tor on the Win­dows plat­form. All this got me think­ing about how we relate to our oper­at­ing sys­tems and in par­tic­u­lar, about how I relate to the operating […]