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Future Tense — IPzation

May 12, 2006

The con­cept of IPza­tion, in my view, is that every­thing elec­tronic inter­ac­tion is mov­ing to a level where the com­mu­ni­ca­tion will hap­pen over an Inter­net Pro­to­col layer. We are already start­ing to see the begin­ning of that phe­nom­e­non with Voice Over IP, which moves the tra­di­tional phone com­mu­ni­ca­tions over to the Inter­net. Sim­i­larly, tele­vi­sion sta­tions are starting […]

Future Tense — Always On

May 11, 2006

Read­ers of this site know that I’m a pro­po­nent of liv­ing an always con­nected lifestyle. My pre­vi­ous views on the sub­jects looked to appli­ca­tions that lived partly on the edge of the net­work and partly off it, a class of appli­ca­tions I called Hybrid Com­put­ing. As broad­band access to the net becomes more preva­lent, those appli­ca­tions will increasingly […]

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 […]

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 […]

Modular by Design — Cable TV

August 11, 2004

Hav­ing looked at how the mod­u­lar by design approach impacted broad­cast tele­vi­sion, let’s now look at its impact on cable TV. The FCC and the cable TV indus­try recently came head to head when it comes to à la carte pric­ing . The con­cept of à la carte pric­ing is that con­sumers would be able to […]

Modular by Design — Introduction

August 7, 2004

I’ve been look­ing at the dif­fer­ent trends in dig­i­tal media and have started devel­op­ing a com­mon the­ory in terms of the issues relat­ing to music, TV, phone ser­vice, weblogs, and soft­ware and the impact the Inter­net has on all those busi­ness mod­els. From there, I came to a con­clu­sion that what the Inter­net does well is break apart […]

Will the Internet candidate please stand?

January 29, 2004

The recent announce­ments of changes in the cam­paign man­age­ment of the Dean pres­i­den­tial cam­paign raise some inter­est­ing ques­tions. As polit­i­cal observers know by now, Joe Trippi, the man cred­ited with cre­at­ing a new polit­i­cal approach by using the Inter­net, has been replaced at the head of the Dean cam­paign by Roy Neel. In: Tele­com Insider The impact […]

2004 Predictions

January 2, 2004

With a new year start­ing, it’s time to jump back in the water and make a few pre­dic­tions as to what’s com­ing next. I sus­pect 2004 is going to be a big year in tech­nol­ogy and here are some pre­dic­tions for the com­ing year. Apple Apple will come out with a new lower-powered, lower-cost ver­sion of the iPod. The idea here […]

Microsoft Lock-in?

June 3, 2003

The recent announce­ment of a part­ner­ship between AOL Time Warner and Microsoft rep­re­sents an inter­est­ing new twist in the shap­ing of the Inter­net. For the past few years, Microsoft has been try­ing to fig­ure out how to remain rel­e­vant in an era of increas­ing open­ness. The rise of HTML and of HTTP as the under­ly­ing protocol […]

Rebuilding

October 8, 2001

Since Sep­tem­ber 11th, life hasn’t been the same. At the final count, I’ve lost 7 close friends and another 5 acquain­tances. This has shaken me and I have felt a lit­tle help­less since. How­ever, in my sor­row, I have found a new need for action. Beyond giv­ing money, blood and sup­plies, I’ve been talk­ing to peo­ple about what to do to […]