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History repeats itself

February 27, 2003

Back in the early-ish days of the com­mer­cial Inter­net (circa 95), we were talk­ing about the browser wars to describe the fight between then-leader Netscape Nav­i­ga­tor and Microsoft’s upstart Inter­net Explorer. Should we start talk­ing about the search engine wars as Over­ture and Google are about to go head to head in a new set of […]

New Economy Redux

February 7, 2003

There has been a lot of arti­cles poo-pooing the con­cept of the new econ­omy. How­ever, many seems to be miss­ing a crit­i­cal part about the changes in the eco­nomic cycle. We are cur­rently going through a period of slug­gish eco­nomic growth but peo­ple are still get­ting fired in large num­bers. Sig­nif­i­cant in the Times story is the following quote: […]

Election 2000: The Net and Politics

November 5, 2000

On Tues­day, US votes will go to the polls and select their next pres­i­dent. This elec­tion will mark the first time the Inter­net has played a sig­nif­i­cant role in pol­i­tics and it seems there is no turn­ing back. In today’s col­umn, I’m tak­ing a look at how the Inter­net changed pol­i­tics and what can be learned from […]

From Scandinavia With Love

September 17, 2000

I was recently speak­ing at a con­fer­ence called Escan­di­navia 2000, which cov­ered the state of the Inter­net in Scan­di­navia. Dur­ing that con­fer­ence, I had a chance to speak to a num­ber of peo­ple about the state of wire­less in the Scan­di­na­vian coun­tries. Here’s what I’ve learned and how it can help those of you who are work­ing in the […]

Fear and Loathing in Los Angeles

August 21, 2000

Over the past few months, the con­tro­versy over nap­ster has con­tin­ued to grow increas­ing fear among the music indus­try that it is becom­ing an endan­gered species. How­ever, this issue is not about music but about movies. Yes, L.A. is start­ing to feel that it has now has to open war on a sec­ond front as its […]

It’s About the Customer

June 20, 2000

Recently, I tried a new appli­ca­tion called Media­Bridge from Digi­marc. The basic con­cept is that if you have a quick­cam or scan­ner attached to your PC, you can access extra con­tent through a URL embed­ded within a news­pa­per or mag­a­zine page. Inter­est­ing con­cept as one could see this being used in Inter­net direc­to­ries or for more infor­ma­tion on a par­tic­u­lar article. […]

Challenging WAP?

May 28, 2000

As reg­u­lar read­ers of this newslet­ter know, I’ve been look­ing a fair amount at how to get unteth­ered from the Inter­net lately. While I have played with a wire­less Palm and looked at WAP, there seemed to be some­thing miss­ing to the whole uncon­nected Inter­net issue. What I came to real­ize is that what works for a com­puter does not necessarily […]

Tech Race: Is Europe Getting Ahead?

September 26, 1999

A call to arms for Amer­i­can e-tailers: catch up now or risk los­ing the lead.