Apple is the new China
April 29, 2010
Apple’s large presence in the mobile space leaves developers with two choices: agree with Apple’s increasingly closed approach or forfeit access to a very large market of consumers.
Apple: Of Tablets and TVs
January 7, 2010
In all the frenzy about the Apple Tablet, people may be forgetting AppleTV.
2009 Predictions: Media
January 4, 2009
Continuing through a series of predictions for 2009, in this entry I examine the media space and present some of my thoughts about what might happen in the coming year.
Reshaping TV
June 11, 2006
How TV could change.
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 […]
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 […]
Doing the numbers on the AOL-WeblogsInc deal
October 6, 2005
AOL bought Weblogs inc., the two year old weblog network founded by Jason Calacanis and Brian Alvey, for a number that is rumored to be anywhere between $25 million and $40 million. In this process, Time Warner may be providing some ideas as to the valuation of blogs by traditional media. The power of the network […]
RSS and Media: Can’t we all just get along?
June 29, 2005
I keep trying to work on an entry to close the loop on the search engine and links research but RSS news is getting in the way. Last week, it was Microsoft’s welcome endorsement and a new set of extensions and this week, it’s Apple and its announcement of a new specification to add more data to […]
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 […]
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 […]