Helio - Should I Call It a Phone?

I keep getting promotional mail from Helio offering discounts on their handsets and the service. Their tag line is "don’t call it a phone"… okay, what should I be calling it and can I make a phone call on it?

First a little background, Helio is a joint venture between SK Telekom and Earthlink to bring [...]

The Business of Mashups - APIs

In the first installment in my ongoing series of mashups posts I looked at the word itself and why edge driven integration and user generated applications are a potentially a disruptive force inside the enterprise as well as else ware. For this post I want to start a discussion on APIs and their impact on [...]

Chronicle Does Irony

Without a hint of irony, the Chronicle runs a really good piece on pay-per-click advertising the day after they publish an article announcing a 25% job cut at the newspaper in an effort to stem a long trail of losses.

Ironic because advertisers have been fleeing traditional newspapers for pay-per-click web advertising for all of the [...]

Book : My Start-Up Life

Ben Casnocha’s book comes out tomorrow, help him out and BUY IT TOMORROW. The first day is critical for any new book on Amazon so dig $20 out of your pocket and get the book.

“My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley” (Ben Casnocha)

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SalesforceWatch Twittered Q Results

It caught my attention when Dennis reported that SalesforceWatch Twittered CRM’s quarterly results… that’s clever. Technorati Tags: Twitter

Man Bites Dog - Chronicle to Lay Off 25%

I have little sympathy for the Chronicle, it was a shit awful newspaper before Hearst acquired them and in the years since it has improved little. In reporting on their own demise, the newsroom is putting out some novel spin by suggesting that online readers will suffer because Google News doesn’t actually publish anything…

Analysts predicted [...]

In Memoriam : Robert Petersen

This is a little late but I just read about the passing of Robert Petersen. To many of you Petersen is more recognizable as the founder of Petersen Publishing, the publisher of 27 monthly magazines reaching 43 million people when it was sold in 1996. Of course, many of you will only recognize Petersen Publishing [...]

Nissan Offers a Hard Drive Option

Nissan is doing something interesting with their newly launched Pathfinder:For the technologically inclined, the Pathfinder comes with an optional navigation system and 9.3-gigabyte hard drive, dubbed the “Music Box,” for MP3 storage, along with Bluetooth capability.On one hand it’s pretty cool that (non-luxury) vehicles are starting to show up with onboard storage, and if the trend holds [...]

What I Learned About Mashups - Part 1

I gave a presentation at the IBM Mashup Summit a couple of weeks ago, and received in return a number of positive reviews. I thought I would turn it into a series of posts that go a little deeper into the topic, which for the vast majority of the market is still pretty new stuff.

This [...]

Sitemeter Goes Spyware

Things you should know before using Sitemeter « Michael Sync: It’s so sad for me to hear that SiteMeter, a well-known web stats providers, is pushing specificclick tracking and advertising cookies on to visitors of sites using their service. (You may already heard about this since it was happened last month.) For me, that news is [...]

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