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 […]
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 […]
Copy and Print
November 21, 2005
As a member of both the New York Library and Creative Commons, I received a lot of advance notice about this week’s discussion entitled “The Battle Over Books: Authors and Publishers Take on the Google Print Library Project”. And, thanks to Larry Lessig, I got a chance to be in the audience during this match-up which forced me to reshape […]
At WeMedia 2005
October 5, 2005
I’m attending the WeMedia conference today and will be live-blogging in this entry. Watch the site for constant updates as I will keep adding to this entry. It seems there are two clear camps here: the new media adopters and the traditional crowd. They can easily be identified based on whether they have laptops in front of […]
9–11 at 4
September 11, 2005
9/11 @ 4
Links and Search Engines: The MSN edition
July 30, 2005
I’ve been promising for a while to complete this series with results relating to MSN (and, for the record, this has nothing to do with Scoble begging for it). I finally got around to cleaning up the HTML output of Excel and can now present the third (and probably final) installment in my analysis of search engine […]
Adobe acquires Macromedia
April 18, 2005
This morning’s big news is that Macromedia is being acquired by Adobe. Reading through the announcement, it is hard to say whether this will come to pass or not, as there are many monopoly issues surrounding this deal. Side by Side The biggest impact will probably be felt on the low end of the creative space. Here’s […]
Why Scale Matters
April 12, 2005
Jeff Jarvis says that scale doesn’t scale. Fred Wilson follows up by talking about the new scale. While I agree that new markets can be born out of aggregation, I disagree with the concept of scale not scaling. The problem is one of, well, scale. Let’s say that I want to make a movie that will rival Star Wars […]
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 […]
Conventional Wisdom: The RNC Hits New York
September 5, 2004
All eyes in the United States were on New York city this week, as Republicans held their national convention in my hometown. While I had initially considered skipping town, I ended up staying in the city and volunteering with the New York chapter of the ACLU. Following is a quick summary of some of the experiences I’ve had […]
