Media Does Irony

From an AP wire report:

Blogs are Web sites that tend to be narrow in focus and directed at a niche audience. Most operate without editors and give instant reaction to the news.

Their freewheeling, open nature makes them popular but also ripe for unverified statements.

If any of the many NYTimes (Strib, LATimes, substitute any major daily) […]

Woz’s Business Card

Steve Wozniak has, quite possibly, the coolest business cards ever. My friend Avery pulled it out of his wallet yesterday and it is indeed as cool as it looks. It’s precision machined and etched, definitely something you wouldn’t throw into the pile of cards in your desk drawer that you never look at again.

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Shai Agassi Roundup

What the hell, haven’t done a roundup in a while. Here are 4 blogs that comment on Shai leaving SAP:

Matt Asay:

"I’m not the biggest fan of Shai Agassi, President of SAP’s Products and Technology Group. I therefore think his announced departure from SAP is a net positive for the company”

Kevin Werbach:

“Because he wants to devote […]

Shai Agassi Resigns - WOW

Wow is all I can say, didn’t see that one coming at all. In fact, given Shai’s position and the perks that it afforded I figured he would stay even though Leo would ultimately get the CEO position. Speaking of Leo, what the hell is “Deputy CEO“? Has anyone ever heard of such a title? […]

U.S. Tech Leadership Under Threat

I thought about putting a question mark in the title of this post, but of course our leadership is under threat from countries who desperately want the wealth and prestige that come with being a technology innovator to the rest of the world. The real question is whether the challengers will be successful in overcoming […]

Kathy Sierra - A Tipping Point?

I was tempted to not write anything about the Kathy Sierra death threats, after all the entire scandal is covered in a huge number of blogs (crossing over to political blogs as well, Instapundit linked to it last night). However, to stay quiet under the dislaimer that “well I don’t know Kathy but I do […]

Embarrassment of Riches

When I did early demos of Teqlo I was pretty limited in the number of widgets we could “hook up” so I invariably ended up doing a Google Map mashup. I started to get self conscious about it to the point that I started to make a joke out of it, “I’m gonna demo a […]

Smartsheet

Of all the companies I saw at the Under the Radar Office 2.0 event last week, the one that really blew me away was Smartsheet. This is one really impressive service.

UPDATE: I was thinking about this some more and I think the question everyone has when they see something like this is “why can’t Microsoft […]

Scaling From Free to .01 Cent

The truth is, scaling from $5 to $50 million is not the toughest part of a new venture - it’s getting your users to pay you anything at all. The biggest gap in any venture is that between a service that is free and one that costs a penny. I can’t think of a single […]

Twitter and Self-Reinforcing Fads

I wrote about Twitter back in July of last year after Ross started using it. Now MSNBC is picking up on the thing that everyone, it seems, is talking about it these days.

Over the past two weeks, Twitter has attracted the sort of hyperbole the Valley reserves for its next internet darling – though such […]

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